Marc Lipsitch named to expert COVID planning group
Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is joining an expert planning group aimed at laying the groundwork for discovering and preserving lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Covid Commission Planning Group (Covid CPG) includes more than two dozen of the nation’s top virologists, public health experts, clinicians, and former government officials. Based at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and sponsored by several of America’s leading charitable foundations, the group is being led by Philip Zelikow, who was executive director of the 9/11 Commission and, before that, the Carter-Ford Commission on Federal Election Reform.
ARTICLE DATEARTICLE AUTHOR AUTHOR EMAIL April 14, 2021
On Tuesday, the University of Virginia
announced that its Miller Center for Public Affairs will serve as a base for a COVID Commission Planning Group, led by UVA professor Philip Zelikow, the former executive director of the 9/11 Commission.
The planning group hopes to prepare the way for a potential National COVID Commission set up to help America and the world learn from this pandemic and safeguard against future threats.
“This is perhaps the greatest crisis suffered by America, if not the world, since 1945,” said Zelikow, the White Burkett Miller Professor of History and J. Wilson Newman Professor of Governance, who also led the earlier, privately organized Carter-Ford Commission on Federal Election Reform. “It is vital to take stock, in a massive way, of what happened and why.