Innumerable barriers exist for people of all lived experiences accessing healthcare. An innovation supporting people gaining access, regardless of location or transportation, is telehealth. Listen as Vidya Raman-Tangella, MHA, Chief Medical Officer at Teladoc Health and Brendan discuss the important role telehealth – and those providing it – are playing in ensuring patients receive equitable and optimal healthcare from anywhere.

Let’s talk about the communities struggling to access healthcare due to distance and availability. Our experts share their experiences and insights in providing medical services and care in rural healthcare deserts.

A cancer diagnosis can put your life on pause. In this special episode, Emmy Award-winning Director and Cinematographer Reed Morano shares the struggle and the resilience of her cancer story.

She directed our #WhatScienceCanDo films, which you can watch here: https://bit.ly/47nQ3Ui.

Achieving health equity can feel like a daunting challenge, but working together with partners committed to long-term solutions can help us do it. Listen as our expert discusses the work being done today to make equity possible tomorrow.

When it comes to medicine, the impact it makes on human health isn’t just measured in how it treats disease. Hear our experts discuss how Green Chemistry is improving outcomes by improving our impact on the environment.

For more information on how we are implementing Green Chemistry across product design, production, and beyond, please visit our website.

Everyone knows trees are incredibly important to a healthy planet, but do we really understand the spectacular impact trees have on human health? Brendan digs into the exceptional value of trees in everyday life with experts passionate about the good going on under the branches.

Using plastics as prescription containers has been the standard for decades, but those empty pill bottles don’t biodegrade. Now, there are new, more sustainable solutions available! Brendan discusses with Dr. Melinda Su-En Lee, CEO and co-founder of Parcel Health, Inc., why the plastic pill bottle is still so ubiquitous for prescriptions, despite its harm to the planet. 

To learn more about the impact of plastic use in prescription pill bottles on the planet – and human health – check out these sources cited in today’s discussion:  

The Myth of Plastic Recycling (NPR) 
Circular Claims Fall Flat Again 2022 (Greenpeace Reports) 

Join us for this special episode, recorded onsite at Aspen Ideas: Health 2024, the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival where more than 1,000 attendees from across the health industry gather to elevate and accelerate bold approaches to better health for all. This episode immediately followed a roundtable discussion on the rising prevalence of cancer among young adults in the US. Brendan sat down with Mohit Manrao, Senior Vice President and Head of the US Oncology Business Unit at AstraZeneca, to discuss the crisis and the roles of innovation, sustainable impact and health equity play in it. Tune in to listen.