Athena Rae Roesler is a director on the Public Health team at Milken Institute Health, where she leads a portfolio of work focused on prevention and chronic disease.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to highlight the importance of the food system: all the activities, resources, and relationships that go into producing, distributing, and consuming food. Images of emptying grocery shelves filled the news as the pandemic began and many people experienced food insecurity for the first time. However, many of the health and economic disparities illuminated by the pandemic are systemic public health issues that were already critical pre-pandemic. During the initial stages of the COVID-19 response, nonprofits, private industry, and policy makers were met with the challenge of protecting the supply chain, supporting the restaurant industry's changing landscape, and addressing food access during isolation, among other challenges.
Using the Inventory’s data, the Hungry for Action report is intended to set the stage for further impact analysis. The Inventory tracked 223 retailers, restaurants, “other industry” (i.e., manufacturers and distributors), and nonprofit organizations’ responses and 69 policies from March 20 - July 15, 2020 and was compiled from publicly available information.
The learnings from the Inventory underscore how the power of partnerships—both new and established—benefited the response effort. We recommend that food system stakeholders looking to craft effective partnerships consider the following recommendations for a more nourishing, sustainable, and equitable food future:
Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, Economist Austan Goolsbee and Oregon Treasurer Tobias Read address critical public finance issues. Washington, DC – January 26, 2021 – The Milken Institute will bring...
California has long had a shortage of affordable housing, most notably along the coast, around universities and research centers, and where booming local economies reflect the entrepreneurial culture for which the state is famous. However...
California’s San Francisco and San Jose—in the top five last year—dropped to Tier 2 due to high housing costs and short-term job loss; Idaho Falls, Idaho, is No. 1 among small US cities. Los Angeles – Feb. 17, 2021 – Provo-Orem, Utah has...
Kevin Klowden is the executive director of Milken Institute Finance. He specializes in the study of key factors that underlie the development of competitive regional economies (clusters of innovation, patterns of trade and investment, and concentration of skilled labor) and how these are influenced by public policy and, in turn, affect regional economies both globally and nationally.
Throughout the COVID-19 crisis, scientists, policymakers, health-care workers, and average citizens worldwide mobilized in ways never seen before to mitigate the challenge at hand. From rapid vaccine development to securing PPE and...
Washington, DC (January 18, 2023) – Alongside a cross-sectoral group of public and private partner organizations, the Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets has launched the 10,000 Communities Initiative, a year-long campaign to help...
Chad Clinton is the director of media relations for the Milken Institute. Hired to this role in August 2021, Clinton develops and executes strategies to amplify the Institute’s core messages by generating coverage of its pillar workstreams, experts, and events.
From the initial stages of the meltdown in subprime home loans to the government’s relief programs, the turmoil in the U.S. financial sector has sent shock waves throughout the global economic arena. Today, federal and state governments...
Submitted electronically The Honorable Deanne Criswell Administrator Federal Emergency Management Agency Washington, DC 20472 Dear Administrator Criswell, The Milken Institute welcomes the opportunity to comment on the implementation of the...
Dan Carol is a senior director on the Milken Institute Finance team. He leads Institute programming to accelerate effective deployment and financing of community-scale and climate resilient infrastructure, scale up regional innovation, and scale-up public-private partnerships.
Washington, DC (February 27, 2024) – Food is Medicine (FIM) can help prevent and treat chronic diet-related diseases. However, the practice faces barriers to implementation in the current U.S. healthcare system. In an effort to build...
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.
In many US cities, concentrated poverty and chronic disinvestment have resulted in wide social, economic, and geographic disparities. More recently, these same city centers are being revitalized – and as rents outpace wage growth, quality...
The Milken Institute, a global think tank focused on financial, physical, mental, and environmental health, today announced new implementation partnerships designed to expand technical assistance to help thousands of underserved urban and...
The Milken Institute, a global think tank focused on financial, physical, mental, and environmental health, today announced new implementation partnerships designed to expand technical assistance to...
By 2050, 68 percent of the world’s population will be living in cities, more than double the percentage reported in 1950. Urban growth has risen sharply since 2000, and many cities, London among them, are under extreme pressure to improve...
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