Lynn Goldman
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- Milken Institute52 min
How Drug Trafficking Is Fueling the Opioid Crisis
Anita Gupta, Michael A. Davis, Lynn Goldman, Adriaan Louw
This event convenes experts to address the escalating opioid crisis, characterized by a 2017 overdose death rate six times higher than in 1999 and a fatal third wave driven by synthetic fentanyl trafficking from China. Through the DEA's "360 Strategy" in Los Angeles, authorities are coordinating enforcement, diversion control, and youth outreach to combat transnational cartels and prosecute distributors of lethal mixtures. Simultaneously, clinical and policy leaders advocate for treating addiction as a chronic brain disease, promoting non-opioid pain management, and dismantling regulatory barriers to expand access to life-saving medications like naloxone.
- Milken Institute58 min
Loneliness as a Risk Factor: Making Connections to Improve Health
Lisa Marsh Ryerson, Lynn Goldman, Sachin Jain, Jeremy Nobel, Anand Parekh, Brian Van Buren, Phyllis Foxworth, Satya
Experts, healthcare leaders, and policymakers convened to address the rising epidemic of loneliness and social isolation, which carry mortality risks comparable to smoking and exacerbate syndemics with obesity and addiction. The discussion highlighted disproportionate impacts on marginalized groups, such as LGBTQ elders and rural communities, while showcasing successful business models like CareMore Health's social prescriptions that have driven a 75% increase in patient engagement. Strategic recommendations included adopting national screening metrics, integrating connection into value-based care, and deploying human-centered interventions to mitigate the $7 billion annual Medicare burden and reverse declining life expectancy.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Mental Health and the Next Generation
Lynn Goldman, Cindy L. Citrone, Oren Frank, Elana Jacobs, Alison Malmon
Hosted by Lynn Goldman, this panel convened leaders from the 33 Foundation, Talkspace, Crisis Text Line, and Active Minds to address a US mental health crisis marked by severe provider shortages and systemic treatment gaps. The session detailed innovative solutions ranging from digital therapy platforms serving over one million users and AI-driven crisis triage to peer-led campus networks, while identifying regulatory hurdles in licensing and emergency service classification that impede scalability. Participants concluded with a unified call to action for integrated data research, updated health education curricula, and policy reforms to achieve parity between mental and physical healthcare.
- Milken Institute1h 6m
Using Prevention to Improve Global Health
Ed Greissing, Michiel Bakker, Tom Beauregard, Lynn Goldman, Christopher Murray
Experts and industry leaders converge to address the $3.7 trillion U.S. healthcare crisis driven by chronic disease, highlighting how linguistic framing and financial incentives can bridge the gap between prevention spending and actual consumer adoption. Innovators like UnitedHealth Group and Google demonstrate that rebranding medical programs, offering free nutrition, and utilizing digital health tools significantly improve engagement rates and metabolic outcomes among millions of participants. Despite rising global obesity and a bifurcation in U.S. mortality trends that threaten long-term economic stability, the consensus points toward a future where healthcare reimbursement and corporate strategy shift from treating acute illness to scaling early, lifestyle-based interventions.
- Milken Institute46 min
The Future of Health: A New World of Collaboration
Michael Milken, Francis Collins, Lynn Goldman, Bob Hugin
The National Institutes of Health, alongside corporate leaders like Celgene and academic institutions such as GW School of Public Health, is driving a decade-long strategic shift toward cross-sector collaboration to address mounting global health crises including opioid addiction, rising obesity-related cancers, and antimicrobial resistance. Key initiatives such as the Accelerating Medicines Partnership and the "All of Us" research program are deploying hundreds of millions in combined public and private funding to accelerate therapeutic discovery, leverage genomic data, and implement preventive structural interventions. This coordinated effort aims to reverse declining U.S. life expectancy trends and reduce the $4 trillion annual economic burden of chronic disease by aligning industry innovation cycles with public health objectives.
- Milken Institute58 min
Cracking the Code of Addiction and Mental Health
Lynn Goldman, Thomas Insel, Gary Mendell, Richard Pops, Garen Staglin, Nora Volkow
A panel of experts from NIDA and public health organizations identifies the opioid crisis as a preventable epidemic driven by systemic healthcare failures, including aggressive pharmaceutical marketing and inadequate medical training, which have caused mortality rates among white non-Hispanic Americans to rise for the first time in history. To address this, the group advocates for mandating CDC prescribing limits, expanding access to proven medication-assisted treatments, and shifting workplace cultures to reduce stigma, emphasizing that the primary obstacle remains the implementation of existing evidence-based protocols rather than a lack of scientific knowledge. Despite these proposed solutions facing significant barriers such as insurance coverage gaps and reimbursement policies that delay care, the consensus holds that coordinated policy changes could reduce new addiction rates by half and reverse decades of escalating overdose deaths.
- Milken Institute1h 4m
Quality Assurance: Why Women Lead Most Health-Care Decisions
Kelly Close, Lynn Goldman, Dariush Mozaffarian, Deneen Vojta
A strategic public health initiative addresses the global nutrition crisis and declining U.S. health outcomes by leveraging women's decision-making power while countering misinformation with evidence-based interventions. Experts propose systemic reforms including price transparency, Medicare incentives for healthy eating, and the integration of nutrition as a vital sign in electronic health records to shift focus from acute care to preventive "soft healing." The plan further outlines the deployment of automated monitoring technologies and community health workers to reduce chronic disease rates, aiming to transform healthcare delivery into a scalable, consumer-oriented model within the next decade.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Wellness and Prevention: Creating Healthier Lives and a Healthier Economy
Eric Schatzker, Steve Bird, Lynn Goldman, Kyuri, Bernard Tyson, LaDawn Mantegi, Daryl Difty
A panel featuring leaders from Safeway, Kaiser Permanente, and IBM demonstrates how shifting healthcare focus from treatment to prevention can drastically reduce costs and improve population health outcomes. These organizations achieved significant results, such as Safeway's 50% healthcare cost reduction and Kaiser Permanente's lower cost trends, by implementing outcome-based rewards, addressing social determinants, and utilizing data-driven interventions. The discussion further highlights the urgent economic necessity of rebalancing public policy and incentives to address systemic disparities and move beyond fee-for-service models toward holistic, value-based care.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Prescription for Wellness: Extending Our Health Span
Hossie Cohen, Freda Lewis-Hall, Yves Joannet, Paul Irving, Steve Bird, Lynn Goldman, Mike McDonald Jr.
Panelists at this gathering analyzed the widening gap between increased life expectancy and stagnant health spans, highlighting the rising economic and societal burden of chronic conditions like Alzheimer's in rapidly aging global populations. Experts outlined emerging biomedical strategies, including precision genomics and preventive interventions, while emphasizing the urgent need to shift funding from curative care to early prevention to mitigate projected trillions in future healthcare costs. The discussion further stressed that overcoming these challenges requires systemic changes in urban planning, employer policies, and insurance incentives to address behavioral barriers and social determinants that currently hinder effective aging outcomes.
- Milken Institute1h 19m
Prevention and Wellness: The Keys to a Healthier, More Prosperous Society
Paul Erring, Mike Milken, Peter Attia, Dean Ornish, Troy, Lynn Goldman, Tom Frieden
The 17th Annual Global Conference convened 3,500 stakeholders to advocate for shifting the healthcare paradigm from reactive treatment to evidence-based prevention, highlighting that lifestyle interventions can reverse severe conditions like heart disease and cellular aging. Speakers detailed economic imperatives for this shift, noting that comprehensive behavioral changes have slashed individual healthcare costs by up to 400% while major retailers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are aligning policies to reimburse these programs. The event concluded with an urgent call to realign financial incentives away from the current "sick care" model, projecting that such systemic changes could prevent the first generation in a century from being less healthy than their predecessors and save trillions in productivity losses.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
How Leading-Edge Corporate Health Solutions Create a Healthier Bottom Line
Kent Bradley, Lynn Goldman, David Kirchhoff, Richard Merkin, Sue Siegel, Bianna Golodryga
Panelists at a National Business Group on Health gathering identified chronic disease as a syndemic driving $3 trillion in costs and projected that one in three Americans will be diabetic by 2050 if current trends persist. Forward-thinking organizations like GE, Safeway, and the Cleveland Clinic are mitigating these risks by shifting from punitive measures to comprehensive, team-based strategies that utilize gamification, environmental design, and shared leadership. These initiatives aim to transition the healthcare sector from 20th-century fee-for-service models to 21st-century collaborative care, demonstrating that combining extrinsic incentives with intrinsic motivation yields significant reductions in emergency admissions and healthcare spending.