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Ann Aerts is Head of the Novartis Foundation.

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  1. Virtual Health for All
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    Virtual Health for All

    Nov 5, 2021 Ann Aerts identifies ways to ensure that the pandemic-induced boom in digital care is equitable and inclusive.

  2. A Digital Path to Health for All
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    A Digital Path to Health for All

    Jul 5, 2019 Ann Aerts & Steve Davis highlight the potential of new technologies and artificial intelligence to address a crucial global goal.

  3. The Global Promise of Digital Health
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    The Global Promise of Digital Health

    Oct 10, 2018 Ann Aerts & Harald Nusser explain how new technologies are transforming medical care in developing countries.

  4. The Promise of Telemedicine
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    The Promise of Telemedicine

    Feb 19, 2018 Koku Awoonor-Williams & Ann Aerts show how an innovative health-care program in Ghana could be a model for expanding health access elsewhere.

  5. The Promise of Digital Health
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    The Promise of Digital Health

    Dec 23, 2016 Ann Aerts offers guidelines for conceiving and implementing primary-care solutions in poor countries.

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

     hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

     wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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