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Aspen Ideas: Health Announces Second Set of Speakers for Annual Health Festival

Aspen Ideas: Health announces more speakers for annual festival to take place from June 22-25, 2025 at the Aspen Institute’s Colorado Campus.

March 19, 2025

Aspen Ideas: Health to take place from June 22-25, 2025 at the Aspen Institute’s Colorado Campus. Media invited to apply for free credentials.

Contact: Eric Baker
Media Relations Manager
Aspen Institute
[email protected]

Aspen, CO, March 19, 2025 –Now in its 12th year, Aspen Ideas: Health, the Aspen Institute’s keystone health convening, will run from June 22-25, 2025. The event gathers leading minds in healthcare, public health, tech, business, government, philanthropy, medical research, and the arts, for panels, one-on-ones, live podcast recordings, and book talks about innovative approaches to tackling health, medicine, and science’s biggest challenges.

Learn more about Aspen Ideas: Health 2025, its speakers, program tracks, and more

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Aspen Ideas: Health 2025 speakers include:

  • Brooke Anderson, President, Pivotal Ventures
  • Ai-jen Poo, President, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Executive Director, Caring Across Generations
  • Richard Besser, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Nita Farahany, Distinguished Professor of Law and Philosophy, Duke University; Author, “The Battle for Your Brain”
  • Uma Naidoo, Director of Nutritional, Lifestyle and Metabolic Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Author, “Calm Your Mind with Food”
  • Kafui Dzirasa, Distinguished Professor and Chief Vision and Values Scientist, The Collective for Psychiatric Neuroengineering, Duke University
  • Wendy Suzuki, Professor, Neural Science and Psychology, New York University; Author, “Good Anxiety”
  • Jen Hecht, Co-Founder and Director, Building Healthy Online Communities; Executive Director, Springboard HealthLab
  • Mohan Sundararaj, Managing Director, Grindr For Equality

Additional speakers and agenda information will be released in the coming weeks and months.

This year, Aspen Ideas: Health’s programmatic tracks are: Decoding the Brain, Audacious Science, Payoff: Investing in Health, Food for Thought, Uncommon Allies, and Pop Health.

Aspen Ideas: Health is the opening segment of the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Aspen Institute’s annual nonpartisan flagship event which gathers leaders and thinkers from around the globe to discuss the ideas that will shape tomorrow and help us understand today.

FOR MEDIA: Journalists interested in attending Aspen Ideas: Health are invited to apply for press credentials here.

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