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Aspen Ideas: Health Announces Newest Round of Speakers for 2025

Aspen Ideas: Health announced its latest set of experts and practitioners who will come to Aspen this June 22-25 to speak on health opportunities.

April 7, 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, April 7, 2025 – We’re just two and a half months out from the Aspen Institute’s annual health experience, Aspen Ideas: Health! Festivities will kick off on June 22, 2025 for the event’s 12th outing that brings together top leaders, thinkers, and practitioners in healthcare, public health, tech, business, government, philanthropy, research, and the arts, for panels, one-on-ones, podcast and TV recordings, book talks, and more on the most innovative solutions for addressing national and global health challenges.

Click here to read more about Aspen Ideas: Health, announced speakers, topics of conversation, and program tracks.

Aspen Ideas: Health 2025 speakers include:

  • Sumbul Desai, Vice President of Health, Apple
  • Alex Azar, 24th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • Garth Graham, Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health, YouTube and Google Health
  • Poppy MacDonald, President, USAFacts
  • Kate Bowler, Podcast Host, “Everything Happens”; Associate Professor of American Religious History, Duke University
  • Edward Chang, Professor and Chair of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
  • Natalia Trayanova, Director, Alliance for Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Treatment Innovation, Johns Hopkins University
  • Megan Ranney, Dean, Yale School of Public Health
  • Jacqueline Howard, Health Correspondent, CNN

Click here to see the full list of speakers already announced including President of Pivotal Ventures Brooke Anderson, President and CEO of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Richard Besser, and integrative medicine pioneer Deepak Chopra.

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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