HMS in the News
Commentary: Aspen Ideas Health
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 [read more]
Commentary: Aspen Health Strategy Group
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 [read more]
Press Release: NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative
NeuroArts Blueprint The Music Man Foundation today announced a $1 million award to the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative to catalyze the research, practice, policy, and culture changes necessary to sustain the field of neuroarts. Neuroarts is the study of [read more]
Opinion Piece: 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 [read more]
Recent Releases
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.
Talking Health: A New Way to Communicate About Public Health
PHRASES
Public Health Reaching Across Sectors (PHRASES), an initiative jointly launched by the de Beaumont Foundation and HMS, informed and inspired Talking Health, published by Oxford University Press. Ruth Katz, HMS executive director, co-authored the introduction to the book, which builds on the recognition that public health needs to tell its story more effectively. Talking Health offers resources to help public health professionals better communicate about the role and value of their field and form stronger cross-sector partnerships.
