Complimentary Virtual Briefing: Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2021 | Virtual Briefing

• March 11, 2021
• 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm eastern
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WASHINGTON, DC -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- MARCH 5, 2021: Vital Directions for Health & Health Care: Priorities for 2021 virtual briefing, hosted by the National Academy of Medicine and Health Affairs, will discuss a set of issues with a particularly compelling need for attention to help ensure improved health and health care for all Americans. Hear an expert panel provide stakeholder perspectives on the top priorities for the new presidential administration and nation.

In 2016, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) established the Vital Directions for Health & Health Care initiative, which aims to provide the U.S. presidential administration, as well as other policymakers, opinion leaders, and the public, with trusted, nonpartisan, evidence-based analysis of the most compelling opportunities and priorities in health, health care, and biomedical science. The resulting 2017 NAM Vital Directions publication marshaled the expertise of over 150 leading experts to provide guidance on 19 priority areas that could immediately and substantively improve health and health care for all Americans.

Since that seminal publication, much has happened in health and health care, underscoring concerns about the nation’s persistent challenges related to maternal mortality, the opioid crisis, and pervasive health inequities, among others. In anticipation of the 2020 presidential election, the NAM completed an updated assessment on key priorities and issues of urgent attention for the next administration. In collaboration with Health Affairs, the NAM published a collection of articles in Health Affairs that addresses five high priority issues which have a particularly compelling need for attention from policymakers and decision-makers.

Join us on Thursday, March 11, 2021 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET for a virtual two hour briefing on Vital Directions 2021 with Victor Dzau, President of the NAM, and Alan Weil, Editor-in-Chief of Health Affairs. The briefing will feature a panel discussion on the key policy recommendations across the articles, to be moderated by Alan Weil.

VIRTUAL BRIEFING AGENDA

2:00 pm ET Opening Remarks Alan Weil, JD, MPP Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs Victor J. Dzau, MD President, National Academy of Medicine 2:05 pm ET Keynote Presentation Kathleen Sebelius President and CEO, Sebelius Resources and Former Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services 2:20 pm ET Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2021 J. Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP Executive Officer, National Academy of Medicine 2:25 pm ET Stakeholder Perspectives on Priorities for 2021 & Audience Q&A Garth Graham, MD, MPH Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health at Google/YouTube Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH Chief Health Equity Officer and Group Vice President, American Medical Association Mark McClellan, MD, PhD Robert J. Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine, and Policy, and Founding Director of the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, MD, MPH Director, District of Columbia Department of Health Mark D. Smith, MD, MBA Former Chief Executive Officer of the California Health Care Foundation Alan Weil, JD, MPP Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs (Moderator) 3:40 pm ET Closing remarks on Health Equity: Where do we go from here? To be announced 3:55 pm ET Closing Remarks Alan Weil, JD, MPP Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs Victor J. Dzau, MD President, National Academy of Medicine 4:00 pm ET Adjourn