Hadly Clark is an associate director on the FasterCures team at Milken Institute Health. She is an experienced health care professional focused on the intersection of health and technology and leads oncology-focused initiatives exploring innovative screening technologies and anti-cancer treatments.
Anita Totten, a senior associate on the Public Health team at the Milken Institute, provides project and research support for the team’s chronic disease and prevention, mental health, and health equity strategic pillars of work. She actively champions the role of employers in whole-person health through projects that advance racial equity and mental health system changes, employer-sponsored insurance innovation, obesity care modernization, and investments in digital health for substance use disorders.
Our research and stakeholder engagement revealed four priority areas in which employers are poised to deploy a whole-person health approach to SUD that encompasses: (1) fostering trust, (2) reducing stigma, (3) building awareness and improving education, and (4) increasing availability and access to services. Recognizing that employers are in different stages of development and change, this report identifies priority areas, insights, and actions to consider at varying stages (i.e., early, mid, and advanced) in conjunction with the incorporation of digital health technologies as part of broader employer efforts.
Employers seek to support their employees while normalizing a whole-person approach to substance use disorders (SUD). The response to addiction and the opioid crisis requires a whole-of-society approach, including employers of all sizes. Employers are uniquely positioned to reach employees, their families, and their surrounding communities, in part as employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) currently provides coverage for approximately 180 million people (or roughly half of the US population).
The Milken Institute Public Health team conducted mixed-methods research to better understand challenges, barriers to entry, current successes, and methods through which employers can embed evidence-based research and health outcomes into digital health technologies focused on addressing SUD.
Patient preferences and insights are increasingly considered throughout the medical product life cycle in addition to clinical outcomes. We know that incorporating patient preferences in the product life cycle can create meaningful results...
Patient preferences and insights are increasingly considered throughout the medical product life cycle in addition to clinical outcomes. We know that incorporating patient preferences in the product...
We advance our policy priorities through government engagement, independent research, and convening global leaders in finance, health, government, and philanthropy to discuss challenges and opportunities facing the world.
In 2022, FasterCures published a report titled The Current Landscape of the Science of Patient Input, which examined the progress of patient engagement (PE) in biomedical research and identified ways to overcome ongoing challenges. Building...
January 14, 2025 (Los Angeles, CA)—Raleigh, NC is the best-performing large metropolitan area, according to the 2025 Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities (BPC) report, taking the top spot in the rankings following two consecutive years...
Paul Guequierre is the director of strategic communications. In this role, he works to increase the profile of Milken Institute in the media, raise the visibility of issues important to the organization and its stakeholders, and expand the Institute's digital presence.
Hite’s decades of healthcare finance experience will enhance center’s approach to biomedical innovation WASHINGTON, August 13, 2019 – FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, today announced the appointment of Christopher Hite, Vice...
Los Angeles – April 15, 2021 – The Milken Institute Global Conference, an annual convening of global leaders in government, finance, health, academia, and philanthropy, will take place this fall from October 17-20, 2021 at The Beverly...
Milken Institute Global Conference Scheduled for October 17-20, 2021
Submitted electronically Ms. Dawn O’Connell Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) 200 Independence Ave. Washington, DC 20201 Re: 2023-2026 National...
Esther Krofah is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, leading FasterCures, Public Health, the Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She has extensive experience managing efforts to unite diverse stakeholders to solve critical issues and achieve shared goals that improve patients’ lives.
“What outcomes matter to patients?” This question is asked at nearly every meeting in biomedical R&D and health care. As FasterCures has documented over the years, there is a big change afoot to place patients in the center of medical...
The Milken Institute Center for Public Health (the Center) focuses on chronic disease research, policy evaluation, and thought leadership by convening experts and stakeholders. As part of this work, the Center aims to change the public’s...
This study calculates the prevalence and economic effects of diseases related to obesity and overweight in the United States. These costs are paid by individuals and their households, employers, government, and society. The prevalence of...
While the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many of the fault lines in the biomedical innovation ecosystem that have slowed progress for decades, we have also shown ourselves capable of innovating in ways we perhaps did not...
The Misophonia Research Fund is pleased to release the 2023 Request for Proposals. The General Grant Program RFP is soliciting research proposals that aim to characterize misophonia, develop objective methods to assess misophonia, or...
