HMS in the News
Press Release: Addressing the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Crisis
A new report released by AHSG examines the urgent need to address youth mental health challenges and identifies opportunities for health sector leaders to take action. “Addressing the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Crisis” is the product of a [read more]
Announcement: Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards 2025 Award Recipients
The second annual Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards, established by the Renée Fleming Foundation and administered through the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative, will support nine teams of early-career investigators working across sciences and the arts to advance the emerging field of neuroarts. Neuroarts [read 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 [read more]
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 [read more]
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 [read more]
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 [read more]
Recent Releases
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.
A Blueprint for Equitable AI
Science & Society
The Science & Society Program convened two diverse groups of cross-sector experts to discuss how they would advise building and distributing artificial intelligence for equitable outcomes, and summarized the discussions in a publicly available report, A Blueprint for Equitable AI.
In Favor of Pure Science
Science & Society
This Science & Society report, In Favor of Pure Science, assesses the current state of basic science around the world, creates a forum for discussion among scientific leaders, and provides guidance on how basic science can be supported and advanced internationally. It was developed in collaboration with Aspen Institute international partners in 13 countries.
