Expert Working Group Identifies Strategies to Prevent Health Systems from Anticompetitive Practices that Threaten Patient Care
A new report by an expert Working Group Ensuring Access, Affordability, and Quality in the Age of Healthcare Consolidation: Lessons Learned and Insights for the Future looks at the forces driving provider consolidation, the framework in place to regulate anticompetitive practices, and opportunities to prevent the harms sometimes associated with consolidation.
The report builds on a convening held in Washington, DC in May 2024. Click on the image to learn more!
Press Release: Expert Working Group Identifies Strategies to Prevent Health Systems from Anticompetitive Practices that Threaten Patient Care
A new report by an expert Working Group Ensuring Access, Affordability, and Quality in the Age of Healthcare Consolidation: Lessons Learned and Insights for the Future looks at the forces driving provider consolidation, the framework in place to regulate anticompetitive practices, and opportunities to prevent the harms sometimes associated with consolidation.
The report builds on a convening held in Washington, DC in May 2024. Click on the image to learn more!
News Article: Science & Society
In a compelling call for scientific leadership, Aaron F. Mertz, Executive Director of Science and Society at the Aspen Institute, highlights a challenge facing American science. A recent collaborative study reveals growing concerns about anti-science rhetoric and the critical need to reinvest in STEM education, research, and evidence-based policymaking.
Request for Proposals: Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards
NeuroArts Blueprint
The Renée Fleming Foundation in partnership with the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative is offering year two of the Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards. The Awards support innovative and collaborative research by early career researchers, designed to expand the evidence base of the emerging field of neuroarts and further the mission of the Neuroarts Blueprint Initiative. The mission of the NeuroArts Blueprint is to ensure the arts — and their use in all their many forms — become part of mainstream medicine and public health.
News Article: Science at the Ballot Box Magazine
Science & Society
Dr. Aaron F. Mertz, Executive Director of Science & Society at The Aspen Institute, shares another weekly article release from his “Science at the Ballot Box” series, a collaboration with Nautilus magazine examining critical issues in science policy in the lead-up to Election Day 2024.
Announcement: “Our Future Is Science” Initiative
Science & Society
The Aspen Institute Science & Society Program’s Our Future Is Science (OFIS) initiative has been selected as one of 20 global Winners in the annual Falling Walls Foundation competition to identify scientific breakthroughs of the year. Through a competitive process adjudicated by an Advisory Board, OFIS was judged out of 136 applications from 54 countries in the Science Engagement category which this year has a special focus on climate change and adaptation.
