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New Horizons for Accelerating Drug Repurposing
Dr. David Fajgenbaum, Ray, Kristen, Marianne Clancy, Christine Colvis
Hosted by TRiN and Faster Cures, this webinar featured experts from EveryCure, CURE HHT, and NCATS to examine strategies for accelerating the repurposing of existing drugs for rare diseases. Presenters detailed how AI-driven knowledge graphs and patient-led advocacy successfully navigated financial, intellectual property, and regulatory hurdles to secure approvals for conditions like Castleman's disease and Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. The session concluded with a consensus that generating clinical evidence and securing payment pathways are more critical than intellectual property protection for bringing generic therapies to new indications.
- Milken Institute45 min
Riding the Waves of Credit: Strategies for an Uncertain Future | Asia Summit 2024
Sharon Chen, Matthieu Boulanger, Patrick Dennis, Katherine Grawe, Joshua Pack
A disjointed panel discussion involving numerous unidentified speakers and audience members covered fragmented topics ranging from real estate and banking to pandemic recovery without establishing a cohesive narrative or actionable conclusions. The dialogue featured conflicting data points, such as a $4 to $5 billion market figure and a claim regarding New York office locations, alongside frequent expressions of uncertainty that prevented the synthesis of specific insights on economic cycles or global geopolitics. Ultimately, the session failed to produce definitive resolutions or forward-looking statements, ending abruptly with unresolved questions and incoherent remarks.
- Milken Institute28 min
"Legacies of Our Fathers": Endearing Lessons from Mount Everest on Climbing | Asia Summit 2024
Peter Hillary, Jamling Tenzing, Curtis S. Chin
The source material provided for analysis is a severely garbled speech-to-text output containing repetitive nonsense and disjointed assertions rather than coherent dialogue. Although the text references specific individuals like Ramada Raksanakaran and Curtis Kim alongside topics such as the JCPOA and climate change, it lacks any verifiable facts, logical arguments, or substantive decisions. Consequently, no factual summary of the event's content, outcomes, or key figures can be generated without fabricating details absent from the incoherent transcript.
- Milken Institute48 min
East Meets West: How Asian Storytelling is Influencing a Global Audience | Asia Summit 2023
Curtis Chin, Randall Park, Guneet Monga, John Penotti, Adele Lim
Speakers at this fragmented panel discussion prioritized global market stability and the need for diverse representation, specifically advocating for more directors of color and indigenous storytelling in the film and television industries. Despite the incoherent nature of the source material, the dialogue identified critical production challenges including high costs, financing difficulties, and the necessity for deeper investment in development. The session concluded with a shared intent to foster authentic narratives and build community structures to support emerging creators before they enter the industry.
- Milken Institute58 min
Antibiotic Resistance and Chronic Disease: Understanding the Challenges and Some Possible Solutions
Amanda Jezek, Jonathan Daniels, David Greenberg, Thomas Heyman, Kathy Talkington, Mark Williams, Tom Heyman
Hosted by Faster Cures in partnership with the Infectious Disease Society of America and other key organizations, this webinar examined the critical market failure hindering new antibiotic development and highlighted its severe impact on cancer, cystic fibrosis, and transplant patients. Panelists presented data showing thousands of annual deaths from antimicrobial resistance while advocating for the "Pasteur Act," a policy designed to de-link financial rewards from sales volume to incentivize the creation of novel drugs for critical pathogens. The event concluded by urging stakeholders to share personal stories and sign a letter to Congress to drive legislative action and secure funding for both antibiotic stewardship and research.
- Milken Institute1h 31m
The Post-COVID Recovery: California's Lagging Employment Rate
Grace Gedye, Julian Cañete, Reign Free, Manuel Pastor, Somjita Mitra, David Lesher, Matt Horton
California's Department of Finance, labor experts, and business leaders analyze the state's persistent 7.3% unemployment rate and structural labor shortages driven by childcare gaps, early retirements, and workforce migration to inland regions. Panelists project a 3.9% to 4% employment growth rate for the coming year, contingent on federal investments in the care economy and housing affordability while addressing risks from inflation and potential political shifts. The discussion highlights a fundamental recalibration of work where demand is shifting toward non-automatable sectors like elder care and cooperative business models rather than returning to pre-pandemic norms.
- Milken Institute1h 32m
Accelerating Securitization in Africa to Finance the SDGs
Alison Harwood, Lade Araba, Samuel Chasia, Juan Pablo de Mollein, John Schellhaus, Sam Chasia
The Milken Institute has launched the African Securitization Alliance, bringing together regulatory bodies from Kenya, Ghana, Uganda, and Côte d'Ivoire to mobilize private capital for Sustainable Development Goals. Participants will utilize a framework of internal and external credit enhancement mechanisms, such as tranching and third-party guarantees from entities like GARANTCo, to mitigate risk and improve market access. Upcoming activities include a specialized workshop in Ghana and a strategic shift toward replicable structures in renewable energy and affordable housing to overcome data gaps and legal barriers.
- Milken Institute1h 31m
Small Business Community: What Happened to Mom and Pop?
Nigel Duara, Lenore Estrada, Isabella Casillas Guzman, Eugene Cornelius, Jr., Carolina Martinez, Mark J. Robertson, Sr., David Lesher
Co-hosted by CalMatters and the Milken Institute, this strategic discussion examined the critical recovery challenges facing California's four million small businesses with special attention to the stark disparities affecting communities of color and women-owned enterprises. Featuring newly appointed SBA Director Isabella Casillas Guzman, the event analyzed how the agency's portfolio expansion to over $1 trillion was initially skewed by banking biases, prompting a pivot toward a "Five C's" framework that prioritizes coaching, diverse capital, and community navigation to address exclusion. Looking forward, the SBA is repositioning to connect small businesses with the $500 billion federal infrastructure marketplace while implementing a $100 million Community Navigator pilot to streamline access for underserved entrepreneurs.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
Lessons Learned from COVID-19: Are There Silver Linings for Biomedical Innovation?
Esther Krofah, Francis Collins, Richard Moscicki, Ellen Sigal, Janet Woodcock
Hosted by Faster Cures, a webinar convened NIH officials and industry leaders to analyze the COVID-19 pandemic's acceleration of biomedical innovation, highlighting achievements such as the ACTIV partnership's master protocols and the RADx initiative's diagnostic scaling. The discussion detailed how the crisis forced a shift toward competitive collaboration, decentralized trials, and the successful achievement of diverse vaccine trial enrollment, while simultaneously exposing critical infrastructure gaps in clinical trial execution and real-world data integration. Panelists concluded with a consensus that emergency-driven reforms must be institutionalized through permanent policy changes and public-private partnerships to sustain preparedness for future health threats.
- Milken Institute1h 17m
Part 1: A Conversation with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy
Phil Murphy, Edward Greissing, Lynn Goldman, Judith Monroe, David Rhew, Alyssa Rieder
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy detailed the state's data-driven pandemic response, highlighting the establishment of a massive PPE stockpile, the training of surge healthcare workers, and the creation of a $100 million relief fund for small businesses. Alongside First Lady Tammy Murphy, the administration launched the "Nurture NJ" initiative to address systemic disparities in Black maternal infant mortality while advocating for a strengthened national public health infrastructure and increased federal investment in the CDC and NIH. The broader panel emphasized that future preparedness requires modernizing data infrastructure, closing the digital divide, and implementing a holistic strategy that integrates health equity into all policy decisions to prevent a return to pre-pandemic inequities.
- Milken Institute53 min
Predicting Pandemics: Mobilizing an Active Global Surveillance System
Dan Diamond, Francis deSouza, Margaret Hamburg, John Nkengasong
Despite unprecedented advances in viral sequencing speed during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts identified critical systemic gaps in global pathogen surveillance that relied on serendipitous discovery rather than proactive networks. Highlighting stark disparities between nations like South Korea and underserved regions in Africa, leaders such as Francis D'Souza and Dr. Hamburg outlined a $100 million Genomics Initiative and advocated for a sustainable public-private partnership to fund a "One Health" approach. This collaborative strategy aims to integrate human, animal, and environmental monitoring through modern genomic technologies, ensuring real-time detection of emerging threats while addressing the political and structural barriers that hindered previous pandemic responses.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
Hacking a Pandemic: Healthtech Amid COVID-19
Christian Besler, Dr. Manuel Dayrit, Dr. Joseph Mocanu, Dr. Matthew Wang, Dr. Jeremy Lim, Cesar Purisima
A 2021 health tech roundtable in Manila convened stakeholders to address the Philippines' critical doctor-to-patient ratio and accelerate telemedicine adoption following pandemic-induced behavioral shifts. Drawing on China's integrated ecosystem where platforms like WeDoctor connected 250,000 doctors to 210 million users, the discussion highlighted the urgent need for regulatory reforms to enable insurance reimbursement and data interoperability. With investors like Reach 52 evaluating opportunities and emerging technology enabling remote monitoring of vital signs, the sector aims to transition from crisis-driven emergency measures to a sustainable, preventative healthcare model.
- Milken Institute46 min
Asia Impact: The Future of Work
Lynn Lee, Premlesh Machama, Ahmed Mazhari, Renée McGowan, Anoop Sagoo, Gary Lu
Co-hosted by the Milken Institute and the South China Morning Post, this "Asia Impact" webinar moderated by Lynn Lee featured executives from Microsoft, Mercer, Accenture, and APEC to analyze Asia's post-pandemic trajectory. Panelists detailed how accelerated digital transformation and a critical "Technology Quotient" are reshaping workforce strategies, while also addressing deepening gender disparities and the urgent need for reskilling. The discussion concluded by outlining a hybrid future where leadership demands heightened empathy and flexibility, organizations evolve toward collaborative office hubs, and governments align education with emerging gig-economy realities.
- Milken Institute1h 7m
Technology and the Opening of Trade
Eugene Cornelius, Marianne Jason, Mary Yang, Kevin Smith-Ramos, Fred Hogberg
A panel of experts from the OECD, Canada, Mexico, and the US Ex-Im Bank emphasized that modernizing trade agreements like USMCA and reforming the WTO are critical to helping SMEs overcome financing barriers and digital divides. The discussion highlighted a divergence in national strategies, contrasting the US's fragmented agency approach with Canada's consolidated model while stressing the need for domestic policies to bolster workforce readiness alongside international market access. Ultimately, participants agreed that sustainable global growth requires addressing social inequities and leveraging digital tools to democratize trade participation for smaller enterprises and developing economies.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Emerging Zoonotic Diseases and Planetary Health: Stopping the Next Pandemic Before It Starts
Melissa Stevens, Simone Friedman, Eric Goode, Mark Smolinski, Gunhild A. Stordalen
Leading experts, policymakers, and investors are mobilizing through the bipartisan "Stop Future Pandemics" bill and a $23 trillion capital initiative to restructure global food systems and halt wildlife trafficking that drives zoonotic disease emergence. This coordinated effort integrates the One Health approach to simultaneously address ecosystem degradation, industrial farming risks, and socioeconomic drivers of spillover by repurposing $700 billion in agricultural subsidies and establishing new ESG disclosure standards. With support from the World Bank, EAT, and over 377 organizations, stakeholders aim to prevent future pandemics by transforming supply chains, funding surveillance technology in resource-limited regions, and ensuring equity for indigenous communities before the next crisis emerges.