HMS in the News
Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards
NeuroArts Blueprint
Renée Fleming Foundation and NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative are proud to announce a groundbreaking program to encourage collaborative neuroarts research between early career artists and scientists. The Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards is now accepting applications.
Long-planned Aspen Ideas: Health hits its marks, makes way for Ideas Festival
Health, Medicine & Society
In an Aspen Times article, HMS Director Ruth Katz is spotlighted for her contributions to Aspen Ideas: Health and the celebration of its 10th anniversary.
Health is too important to be left to the health sector alone
Health, Medicine & Society
In an ImpactAlpha op-ed piece, Donna Shalala and John Lipsky explain why health spending is an investment in a nation’s future. They call on government health and finance agencies to partner to strengthen national, regional, and global resilience. John Lipsky was former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund; Shalala was former secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
How healthcare lost the nation’s trust, and how to bring it back
Aspen Health Strategy Group
When people don’t trust the healthcare system, the health of the nation suffers. In a discussion with Ruth Katz, Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine, and Society Program, Dr. Richard Baron, president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine, explains some reasons why people have lost faith in medicine. Baron talks about how healthcare providers need to recognize the causes of this trust breakdown, and actively work to rebuild it—based upon more than simply saying, “It’s science.” He also suggests ways that doctors, hospitals, and healthcare systems can work to earn the trust of the patients they are sworn to help.
NAM FAQs Related to NYT Articles on Sackler Donations to NAS
National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
The National Academy of Medicine takes very seriously the issues raised in New York Times articles on April 23 and April 28 about donations by the Sackler family to the National Academy of Sciences. The NAM is committed to upholding the independence, integrity, and scientific rigor of its work and work across the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The NAM is working with the NASEM to ensure transparent communication about NASEM policies and procedures and to take timely action following the articles.
If We Want to Save Black Mothers and Babies, Our Approach to Birthing Care Must Change
Aspen Health Strategy Group
As we honor the 2023 Black Maternal Health Week, former governors and secretaries in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius and Tommy Thompson, recognize the urgent need to overhaul the systems and structures that allow the crisis of maternal mortality to happen. This TIME article spotlights the Aspen Health Strategy Group’s call to action from the 2020 report, Reversing the Maternal Mortality Crisis.
Recent Releases
Dialogue on National Fiscal Policy and Health
Health, Medicine & Society
This new HMS report reinforces the multidimensional ties between the economic health of a nation and the health of its citizenry. The report, entitled Dialogue on National Fiscal Policy and Health, offers ten key principles that build on the recognition that economic productivity is deeply influenced by health status, primary care capacities, the presence or absence of systemic inequities, and the availability of affordable healthcare.
Aspen Ideas Health: Celebrating 10 Years of Impact
Aspen Ideas Health
Aspen Ideas: Health highlights and celebrates its 10-year history! This collection samples the stories of speakers, fellows, and attendees who explain the impact of how Aspen Ideas: Health has influenced and inspired their work over the years.
Advancing LGBTQ+ People in STEM Careers
Science & Society
In this report, the Science & Society program embarked on convening a roundtable discussion with international, cross-sector, LGBTQ+ STEM colleagues and set out to explore some of the barriers facing LGBTQ+ inclusion in STEM around the world. The aim is to inspire action within the STEM community, including corporate, research, academic, and nonprofit sectors, and pushes for intersectional policy change to build more inclusive spaces that ultimately benefit us all.
Protecting Health Data Privacy and Improving Patient Care
Aspen Health Strategy Group
This Aspen Health Strategy Group report offers five big ideas for protecting health data privacy and improving patient care. Action steps include: Congress should update federal health data privacy laws, health data privacy laws should reflect social norms, all entities that hold health data should have clear policies, health sector leaders should advance a new covenant of health data use and consumer participation in health data privacy practices should become the norm. Background papers provide a fuller context for these ideas.
Clinical Trial Diversity Advancing Scientific Discovery and Equity
Science & Society
Progress Report: Building the Neuroarts Field 2022-2023
NeuroArts Blueprint
Dedicated to strengthening the essential role that the arts can play in advancing health and wellbeing, neuroarts has captured the attention of an expanding network of researchers, practitioners, arts groups, health providers, and other public sector and private sector organizations. Learn how the NeuroArts Blueprint is advancing research, practice, education, policymaking, advocacy, leadership, and communications in this emerging field.
