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Ann Aerts

Ann Aerts

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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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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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