The Supreme Court may be more visible in the national news, but Katie Keith thinks we need to pay attention to the hundreds of district and appellate courts. Keith, the director of the Health Policy and Law Initiative at Georgetown University, says this is where the vast majority of decisions are made, including ones that have blocked an array of national health policies.

Thomas Chatterton Williams is trying to build a society that transcends race. In his recent book, Self Portrait in Black and White, the author unearthed the story of his multigenerational family and, in turn, unraveled his previous notions of race. After he and his French wife had their first child, Williams realized that racial categories could not contain his daughter—or any other human being.

Alaina Wood is known as “The Garbage Queen” on TikTok. As a sustainability scientist and climate communicator, she wants to dispel the notion that you must be perfectly sustainable to make a difference in the fight against climate change. Instead, she says it is fine to do whatever is within your means and focus on holding the biggest polluters—like governments and corporations—accountable.

Personnel shortages, more paperwork, racism and trauma, threats of violence—these are just some of the intersecting crises that US health care workers face today. A less understood issue is moral injury, says Dave Chokshi, a primary care internist and clinical professor at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Moral injury refers to the sense of powerlessness within systems that keep health care workers from healing those they aim to serve–and to address it requires fundamental change.

July 27-30, 2022

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Aspen ESG Summit

July 11-13

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July 19-22

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July 27-30

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August 13

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