Healthcare

Celebrate Healthcare Quality Week 2026 with speakers bringing perspectives on patient safety, quality improvement, healthcare leadership, innovation, access, and better outcomes.

Michael Douglas has spent decades telling unforgettable stories on screen. This October, he is sharing his own. On October 7, Douglas will join bestselling author and interviewer Kelly Corrigan for a special conversation in Washington, D.C. centered on his new memoir, One Helluva Ride.

Observed each October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a time to recognize those affected by breast cancer while honoring the patients, families, caregivers, healthcare professionals, researchers, and advocates who support them.

Rebekah Taussig has brought her perspective as a disability advocate and storyteller to Being Heumann, a new film about pioneering activist Judy Heumann. Taussig co-wrote the screenplay with director Siân Heder, whose previous film, CODA, won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Each September, Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month bring attention to two cancers that affect countless patients, families, and communities. These observances offer an opportunity to raise awareness, support education, and recognize the people working every day to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, research, and care.

Grief is often treated as something private, linear or separate from everyday life. But for anyone who has experienced loss, caregiving, illness or major change, grief can become part of how we move through the world, shaping relationships, work, health and the way we understand ourselves.

Professor Michelle Williams recently joined the McKinsey Health Institute for a powerful conversation on why public health should be understood as public wealth. In the interview, “Michelle Williams on why public health is public wealth,” Williams argues that the health of a population is not a charitable concern or a secondary priority. It is infrastructure.

Healthcare works better when patients, caregivers, clinicians, and communities are not operating in separate lanes. That idea is at the heart of Dr. Stella A. Safo’s work and the mission behind Octavia’s Cure.

Michael Douglas has spent decades in the public eye, building a career that spans some of the most memorable films in modern Hollywood. Now, in his new memoir, One Helluva Ride, he turns the lens inward.