Milken Institute Health
Milken Institute Health advances research, policy, and programs to address complex health challenges across biomedical innovation, public health, healthy aging, and food systems. The work advances research, policy, and programs that surface promising practices and support the scaling of solutions to improve health outcomes and resilience in the United States and globally.
Milken Institute Health Spotlight
Future of Health Summit 2025
Explore the key trends, ideas, and solutions discussed at this event, featuring more than 200 speakers from diverse sectors and industries, spanning nearly 60 sessions that covered a broad range of health topics in biomedical innovation, public health, healthy aging, food systems, and strategic philanthropy.
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Featured Thought Leadership
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Employers Investing in Women: Advancing Business, Employees, and Communities
Women represent 47 percent of the US workforce and contribute 37 percent to the global gross domestic product, yet data show that women’s health continues to face significant underinvestment across many disease conditions that affect women...Read Report -
Integrating Women’s Health: From Fragmented Systems to Connected Care
The Milken Institute Women’s Health Network bridges gaps in innovation and health care in areas that impact women exclusively, differentially, or disproportionately.Read ArticleImage
Jenica Patterson, PhD
Senior Director, Women’s Health Network, Milken Institute HealthJenica Patterson, PhD, is the senior director of the Women’s Health Network within the Health pillar at the Milken Institute, where she leads a global initiative to accelerate innovation, investment, and cross-sector collaboration in women’s health. In this role, Patterson brings together leaders across science, industry, philanthropy, and finance to advance emerging solutions and strengthen the ecosystem needed to bring women’s health innovations to market and scale. -
Ann Theodore Foundation Sarcoidosis Inhibitor of mTOR, 2026: Information Session
The Ann Theodore Foundation (ATF), in partnership with Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy’s Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC), is accepting applications from independent researchers for a new...View Webinar -
Strengthening the US-Mexico Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
The pharmaceutical supply chain is an intricate, interconnected system that plays a crucial role in ensuring communities and individuals have timely access to medicines.Read Report -
Vital Voices Webinar Series Part 3: Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Navigating State-Level Coverage and Payment Decisions
The third installment of the Vital Voices webinar series explored how patient organizations can navigate and inform state-level coverage and payment structures to improve treatment access. State Medicaid programs play a pivotal role in...View Webinar -
Digital Technology Bundles: A Testing and Validation Blueprint for Fall Prevention
Falls are the leading cause of injury, both fatal and nonfatal, among adults aged 65 and above. In response, an array of fall-prevention technologies has become available; however, an abundance of “point solutions”—apps, products, services...Read Report -
2026 Policy Priorities and Solutions
The Milken Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank focused on accelerating measurable progress on the path to a meaningful life. With a focus on financial, physical, mental, and environmental health, we bring together the best...Read Brief -
Key Trends in Health at the Future of Health Summit 2025
The 2025 Milken Institute Future of Health Summit centered on the theme In Service of Better Health. The event featured more than 200 speakers from diverse sectors and industries, spanning nearly 60 sessions that covered a broad range of...Read Report -
Employers Mitigating Risk and Building Resilience: Response to Early-Onset Cancer
Employers are uniquely positioned to anticipate and respond to emerging and escalating risks that impact their employees, businesses, and surrounding communities through the Milken Institute’s Employer Action Exchange (EAE) framework. The...Read ReportEmployers are uniquely positioned to anticipate and respond to emerging and escalating risks that impact their employees, businesses, and surrounding communities through the Milken Institute’s...
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Accelerating the American Scientific Enterprise
The Milken Institute’s recommendations focus on structural reforms that would strengthen the scientific enterprise by improving coordination, reducing barriers, enabling risk-taking, and ensuring that scientific progress delivers tangible...Read Letter -
What We Heard at the Future of Health in Asia
The 12th annual Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore convened global leaders transforming business, finance, government, health care, technology, and philanthropy to discuss critical topics of importance within the Asia-Pacific region...Read ArticleThe 12th annual Milken Institute Asia Summit in Singapore convened global leaders transforming business, finance, government, health care, technology, and philanthropy to discuss critical topics of...
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Brenda Huneycutt
Senior Director, International, Milken Institute HealthBrenda Huneycutt, PhD, is a senior director at the Milken Institute, where she oversees Milken Institute Health work internationally across all four Milken Institute Health portfolios – FasterCures, the Future of Aging, Feeding Change, and Public Health. -
Access Point: Trends in Clinical Trials Transformation #2
FasterCures’ Access Point: Trends in Clinical Trials Transformation is a quarterly horizon scan examining how emerging trends, organizations, and initiatives are transforming clinical trial access and efficiency. Each issue highlights...Read ReportFasterCures’ Access Point: Trends in Clinical Trials Transformation is a quarterly horizon scan examining how emerging trends, organizations, and initiatives are transforming clinical trial access and...
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Milken Institute Health focuses on biomedical innovation, public health, healthy aging, and food systems, with an emphasis on research-driven solutions and cross-sector collaboration.
The work combines research, convenings, and partnerships across public, private, and nonprofit sectors to translate evidence into practical policy and programmatic action.
The pillar includes four portfolios: FasterCures, Feeding Change, Future of Aging, and Public Health, which also collaborate on cross-cutting health challenges.
Organizations can engage through research collaboration, participation in events, multi-stakeholder partnerships, thought leadership, and policy-focused initiatives aligned with the Health portfolios.
Milken Institute Health informs and contributes to major events, publications, thought leadership, and initiatives across the Institute, including summits, reports, and cross-pillar programs.
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