Friday, January 29
12:00 – 1:30 PM E.T.
On January 29, BPC’s health care leaders will release a new report with federal recommendations to bolster the nation's pandemic response. Recommendations address COVID-19 testing and contact tracing, vaccine transparency and distribution, supply chain management, surge capacity, racial disparities, and funding for states, localities, and providers. This virtual event will include former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, M.D; William Roper, M.D., former director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Mark Smith, M.D., clinical professor of medicine, University of California San Francisco, founding president and former CEO, California Health Care Foundation; Leana Wen, M.D., former health commissioner of Baltimore and visiting professor of health policy and management, George Washington University; and Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., former administrator, Health Care Financing Administration (Now CMS) and senior fellow, Project Hope; and moderated by Anand Parekh, M.D., chief medical advisor, Bipartisan Policy Center.
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Wednesday, January 27
12:00 – 1:30 PM E.T.
On Wednesday, January 27, the Bipartisan Policy Center will release a new report with recommendations on ways to improve Medicaid buy-in programs and expand opportunities for workers with disabilities. The report's findings will be discussed during a virtual event with experts in the field including: Henry Claypool, policy director, Community Living Policy Center and consultant, Bipartisan Policy Center; Kathy Hempstead, senior policy adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Michael Gamel-McCormick, Ph.D., disability policy director, U.S. Senate Special Commitee on Aging; Beth Waldman, J.D., MPH, senior consultant, Bailit Health; and moderated by Katherine Hayes, director of health policy, Bipartisan Policy Center.
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In this blog, BPC Project Assistant Thomas Armooh and former BPC Project Associate Edwin Chen discuss the lack of trust in our nation’s public health agencies and their world class career scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece also highlights the historically lower trust between health care professionals and communities of color due to long-standing social and health inequities, the blog post offers three actions to help restore trust in science and build back greater confidence in our federal public health agencies and experts.

While former Agriculture Secretaries Dan R. Glickman and Ann M. Veneman, co-chairs of BPC’s Prevention Initiative, were pleased that the guidelines provide, for the first time, much-needed nutrition guidance for young children under age two and their caregivers, they were disappointed that the guidelines failed to reduce added sugars and alcoholic beverages as recommended by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s evidence-based conclusions. BPC submitted written comments on the evidence review process and the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s scientific report that informed the development of these new guidelines.