What did I find at the Aspen Ideas Festival? A lot of inspiration and hope
Aspen Ideas Health
Dr. Fred Pelzman shares his experiences attending Aspen Ideas Health, and enjoying some time in the Rocky Mountains.
Aspen Ideas Festival transformative experience for YSPH professor
Aspen Ideas Health
Dr. Ijeoma Opara, a Yale School of Public Health Associate Professor and Aspen Idea Health Fellow, reflects on her experiences attending the festival, including meeting Dr. Francis Collins, former director of the National Institute of Health
U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence references Aspen Health Strategy Group Report
Aspen Health Strategy Group
Health, Medicine & Society’s Aspen Health Strategy Group’s 2023 report, Reducing the Health Harms of Firearm Injury, is one of only four documents listed as “Additional Recent Resources” in The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence: A Public Health Crisis in America. This advisory is the first publication from the Office of the Surgeon General dedicated to this issue, and it outlines the devastating and far-reaching consequences that firearm violence poses to the health and well-being of the country.
State Efforts to Control Healthcare Costs: Lessons Learned and Insights for the Future
Health, Medicine & Society
Sates have become laboratories for testing policy and programmatic ideas to address the high costs of healthcare and keep spending under control. A new report released by an expert Working Group offers a decision–making framework to guide them as they consider optimal approaches tailored to their needs.
Prevention Programs Save Lives and Money — Yet the Budget Process May Undervalue Them
Health, Medicine & Society
Co-chairs of the Aspen Working Group on the Federal Budget Process, Dan Crippen and Nancy-Ann DeParle, penned an opinion piece published in The Hill on legislation recently passed by the US House of Representatives that is line with the Working Group’s recommendation that CBO scores of preventive health legislation “be accompanied by supplementary information to put the costs and savings in context, including the likelihood that costs and savings will accrue over the long term….” The Working Group’s full set of recommendations on the CBO scoring process regarding preventive health services are described in its report, Budgeting for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: Improving the Federal Scorekeeping Process.
Reducing the Health Harms of Firearm Injury
Health, Medicine & Society
AHSG’s latest report examines the epidemic proportion of firearm injury in the United States—more than 48,000 Americans lost their lives to firearms in 2021, twice that many were injured, and millions more experienced the trauma associated with such violence. This report presents AHSG’s five big ideas to address the problem and includes background papers providing an overview of the causes and consequences of gun violence, the American culture of guns, and the use of harm reduction and community intervention techniques to curb violence.
