Congressional Briefing and National Webinar: Ready or Not 2022: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism

As the nation enters its third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s report calls for urgent investment to create a public health system able to protect all Americans’ health during emergencies. The report measures states’ degree of preparedness to respond to a wide spectrum of health emergencies and to provide ongoing public health services.

A panel of subject matter experts discussed the nation’s readiness for public health emergencies, examined the findings of the report, and discussed key recommendations for policymakers.

Resources:

Trust for America’s Health

• Ready or Not 2022 Fact Sheet
• Ready or Not 2022: Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report

Office of Minority Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Health Equity Matters e-newsletter
• Health Matters for Women e-newsletter
• Health Equity in Action
• Racism & Health
• Conversations in Health Equity Blog
• COVID-19 Health Equity Strategy
• COVID-19 Vaccine Equity for Racial & Ethnic Minority Communities

Articles shared by Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

• A National Strategy for the “New Normal” of Life with COVID
• To Get To A ‘New Normal,’ Public Health Must Focus On All Respiratory Viruses
• How America Can Rebuild the Community Bonds It Needs to Face the Next Pandemic
• Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis of Infection and Fatality Rates, and Contextual Factors Associated with Preparedness in 177 Countries, from Jan 1, 2020, to Sept 30 2021
• We Have a Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity to Fix our Crumbling Schools
• Opinion: How Can We Put Covid Behind Us Without Guaranteed Paid Sick Leave?
• The Death Toll Says It All
• The End of the Covid Emergency Could Mean a Huge Loss of Health Insurance

Panelists

• Leandris Liburd, PhD, MPH,MA
  Associate Director for Minority Health and Health Equity Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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• Thomas Dobbs, MD, MPH
  State Health Officer, Mississippi State Department of Health
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• Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA
  Senior Fellow & Editor-at-Large for Public Health Kaiser Health News/Kaiser Family Foundation
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Moderator

• Dr. J. Nadine Gracia, TFAH President & CEO
  Dr. J. Nadine Gracia is the President and CEO of Trust for America’s Health, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health policy, research and advocacy organization that promotes optimal health for every person and community.
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