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Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Director Tom Inglesby and J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president and director for the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, authored a report on the …

White House COVID-19 Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha and former Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Julie Gerberding talked about current response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky reflected on the agency’s successes and failures during the COVID-19 pandemic. She talked about the need to simpli…

The 51st annual Conference of the Americas convened a panel discussion on regional recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, focusing on the economic and health crises. A panel of experts, inc…

The USAID COVID-19 Task Force executive director, a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director during the George W. Bush administration, and other former government off…

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on the role of the strategic national stockpile during a pandemic. They discussed the challenges to the stockpi…

Pharmaceutical company officials testified at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee virtual hearing on COVID-19 vaccine research and development. Witnesses included representatives from A…

The Senate Health Committee held a hearing to discuss lessons learned from the coronavirus response and future pandemic preparedness efforts. The committee focused on how federal programs wo…

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Bob Schieffer College of Communications at Texas Christian University (TCU) hosted a virtual discussion about societal insta…

The House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing with health experts on the coronavirus outbreak and the government’s response to it. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Tom Inglesby, Illinois Public Hea…

Dr. Anthony Fauci and others talked about efforts to develop a vaccine against the Ebola virus. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and …

A hearing was held on the report released the previous month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which announced that there were 56,300 new HIV infections in the United S…

Panelists talked about medical and health research. Topics included the national agenda issues; strategies for winning influence for science; and the complicated issues that influence public…

The hearing was about the reauthorization of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Panelists representing governmental and non-governmental organizations talked about the scope …

Director Gerberding testified about the cause and spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium that can cause serious infection and death. It survives most antib…

Witnesses testified about the potential impact of global warming on public health, including implications for infectious disease, heat-related illnesses and injuries, drought, and ground-lev…

Witnesses testified about increasing numbers of Alzheimer’s disease cases, public education efforts by several federal agencies, other research and health care programs, as well as levels of…

Federal health and law enforcement officials testified about containment of contagious diseases and public safety issues in light of a recent incident involving a citizen who had traveled to…

Witnesses testified about the prevalence of autism and policy implications for health care in the U.S. Among the topics they addressed were combating autism, available treatments, research i…

Public health officials, government agency representatives and others spoke about improving local preparedness for public health emergencies. They spoke about lessons learned for a recent me…