The Disruptive Women in Health Care blog is proud to have been asked to join the coalition of the Aspen Institute’s www.aspeninstitute.org newest health initiative:  The Aspen Health Stewardship Project.  We are in good company.  AARP, the Partnership for Prevention, the American Heart Association, GE Healthcare, PhRMA, the American Lung Association, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and WomenHeart are just a few of the other coalition members.

Last week, Michelle McMurry, MD, PhD, Director of the Health, Biomedical, Science and Society Program at the Aspen Institute (and a founding Disruptive Woman) held an event to release a new white paper from the Stewardship Project.  Here’s what she had to say:

The principles of the Aspen Health Stewardship Project are:

• Access is not enough.
• I am in charge of my health.
• Value and quality in care are paramount.
• Focus on cultural change.
• Health span, not life span.
• Turn information into insight.
• An effective health care system is a transparent one.
• Equity in  health, not just in health insurance.
• We shouldn’t have to tell our children that they won’t live as long as we will.
• Health in all policies.

You can learn more about this important project at http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/health-biomedical-science-society/health-stewardship-project.

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