Health

Biotechnology

Experts in this Topic

Luciana L. Borio
Luciana L. Borio

Senior Fellow for Global Health

James P. Dougherty
James P. Dougherty

Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy

  • Health
    Renewing America Series: Public Health as a Public Good—What's at Stake?
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    The COVID-19 pandemic amplified health disparities and renewed conversations about the limitations of current public health systems after decades of disinvestment. Panelists explore the idea of reframing public health as a public good to drive investment, modernization, and encourage better coordination across health systems. With its Renewing America initiative, CFR is evaluating nine critical domestic issues that shape the ability of the United States to navigate a demanding, competitive, and dangerous world.  
  • Biotechnology
    Can Biotech Be Harnessed?
    Podcast
    Richard Haass and Michelle McMurry-Heath, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Innovation Institute, discuss the future of biotechnology and its potential impact on food production, climate change, energy production, and medicine.
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    Centennial Speaker Series Session 8: Will Technology Save Us or Threaten Us?
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    Fei-Fei Li discusses artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies that are certain to have enormous implications for this country and the world.    This meeting is the eighth session in CFR’s centennial speaker series, The 21st Century World: Big Challenges & Big Ideas, which features some of today’s leading thinkers and tackles issues ​that will define this century.