Lauren Dunning is a director at the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging, where she develops strategic partnerships and initiatives that elevate awareness, advance solutions, and catalyze action. In her role, Dunning oversees the Advisory Board, a group of global leaders from across sectors that provides advisement, expertise, and collaboration to maximize the impact of the Center's work. Before joining the Milken Institute, Dunning served in key policy leadership roles over ten years at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, where she was most recently the director of government affairs. Dunning has written and presented on a variety of public health policy topics and is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Dunning holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a bachelor’s degree from George Washington University. She works at the Milken Institute’s Santa Monica office.