Preparing for the Next Public Health Emergency: Reauthorizing the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee
430 Dirksen

04/05/2023 at 01:00PM

Full committee hearing on the reauthorization of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act.

The latest reauthorization, passed in 2019 as the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness and Advancing Innovation Act includes the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response in the Department of Health and Human Services. ASPR includes the National Disaster Medical System, which provides personnel, equipment, supplies, and a system of partner hospitals that work together with state and local personnel to provide care in response to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, pandemic disease, major transportation accidents, and terrorist attacks.

Witnesses:

Panel I

  • Dawn O’Connell, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, United States Department of Health and Human Services
  • Rochelle Walensky MD, MPH, Director, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Robert Califf MD, Commissioner, United States Food and Drug Administration

Panel II

  • Reshma Ramachandran MD, MPP, MHS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine
  • Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen
  • Martin Makary MD, MPH, Professor, Johns Hopkins University