And patients have changed their behaviors, as a consequence in concerns of drug availability and shortages, what are stakeholders doing to ensure the disruptions do not occur in collaboration between the public and the private sectors, what plans are being put in place for the distribution of this corona vaccine once it becomes available, we will discuss all of this and much more with the smartest minds in health policy, before we get underway he is entered a few housekeeping notes at the hill event and the comes special letters, the hill rx supply chain. Sibelius resources which provides strategic advice to companies, investors and nonprofits and is my go to person when it comes to issues of knowing what a smart Healthcare System looks like. So, great to see you. Let me ask you, to get to the point, you oversaw many of the institutions that we are now looking at today to help save this country whether its pushing the time curb, developing a vaccine, whether its on how you approve the
This is just over one hour. Hello and welcome i am editor at the hill, thank you for joining us for covid19 and a responsible rx supply chain, or Virtual Event looking at the resiliency of the Prescription Drug supply chain during a Global Pandemic. Id like to thank our sponsors the Healthcare Distribution Alliance for their support of todays program, the coronavirus pandemic has upended our lives and forced a new normal upon us, what accommodations can be made for lifestyle choices but little flexible lead to health care, patients with chronic disease and those most at risk from the coronavirus access to regular medication is in the choice and matter of life and death in a pandemic the Healthcare System and patients have changed their behaviors, as a consequence in concerns of drug availability and shortages, what are stakeholders doing to ensure the disruptions do not occur in collaboration between the public and the private sectors, what plans are being put in place for the distribu
Activities and voters back in 2016 and now paying attention to democrats in texas and latino voters. Well get an update from here at the end of this program. And at least at the end of my interview with dr. Navarro. Before we get to dr. Navarro a few headlines to get you up to speed. The big thing to Pay Attention to is travel. Trel reveals a lot about politics. Why are people making decisions to go certrtain places . Anthe midwest is the battleground. We hear a t about the deep south. We hear a lot about the sunbelt. And theres no doubt those are areas that are competitive. But if you look at today, President Trump, and democratic nominee joe biden, theyre going to the midwest today. Friday. Both will be in minnesota and wisconsin. Biden will also be in iowa. President trump will go to michigan. Vice president pence wl be in arizona speaking of the sunbelt. And democratic v v. P. Nominee senator harris, she will go to texas. Again, the sunbelt. So you have the nominees in the midwest,
We have more than i think 760 registered for this meeting and we will do our best to get to as many questions as we can during the period but now a little bit about this event. The independent Task Force Program began in 1995 analyzing issues of critical importance to us Foreign Policy in a nonpartisan way. Once launched task forces are independent of cfr and are solely responsible for the content of their worth. And the task forceprograms 25th year cfr is launching its 78 Task Force Report and id like to welcome you to this discussion of the report and its called improving pandemic preparedness , lessons from covid19. A brief introduction of our panelists, we have cynthia burwell, cochair and president of American University and also former us secretary of health and Human Services under president obama. Welcome to you. Also joining us is frances townsend, also cochair, assistant to president bush in Homeland Security and counterterrorism and is vice chairman on general counsel of vic
Im steve clemons, editor at large of the hill thank you for joining us for covid19 and a responsible rx supply chain, looking at the resiliency of the Prescription Drug supply chain during a global pandemic. Id like to thank the distribution alliance. The coronavirus pandemic has upended our lives and forced the new normal upon us. While accommodations can be made for our lifestyle choices theres little legibility when it comes to our health care. For those most at riskexaccess to regular medication isnt a choice and in some cases its a matter of life and death. Both the Healthcare System and patience have changed their behaviors. As a consequence concerns have arisen regarding drug availability and shortages. What are stakeholders doing o to ensure that disruptions do not occur and there is collaboration between the public and private sectors and what plans are being put in place for distribution of this vaccine once it becomes available . We discuss all of this with some of the smart