One powerful residency leads to one productive convening and a plan to alter the country’s economic system in favor of better health.
Rebalancing Power and Growing Understanding
HPEP’s goal is to generate ideas, then develop policies and strategies to implement these ideas, and finally engage diverse communities to drive adoption.
The focus is on reorienting public and private finance toward long-term investments in health such as baby bonds, rebalancing power toward patients rather than profiteering, and deepening broad public understanding about the links between health and the economy.
“We have a big vision for this project,” said Hamilton, who has noted in previous interviews that while he loves learning, he ultimately believes knowledge must help create meaningful change.
“We are seeking to catalyze a new deal at the intersection of health and the political economy, so there is a lot to do in the realm of ideas and discourse and changing hearts and minds,” Hamilton said. “But we won’t be satisfied if this remains on the pages of a journal — this needs to actually change the systems that shape the lives of our families, neighbors, the people we aim to serve.”
More Connections Forged at Bellagio
Like the Health and Political Economy Project, this collaboration — focused on the impact of lithium mining in the Americas — was forged at the Bellagio Center, where a diverse, multifaceted group of experts come together to transform ideas into action.
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