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The Pandemic Preparedness and Response Act is a bill introduced on October 5, 2005, by U.S. Senators Harry Reid, Evan Bayh, Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, and Tom Harkin in response to the growing threat of an outbreak of avian influenza. The bill calls for: [1]
A leader of the team that helped to repair the healthcare.gov website after its initial rollout, he was nominated by Barack Obama to run CMS in July 2015. [3] [4] [5] In January 2021, Slavitt accepted a temporary role as Senior Pandemic Advisor [6] to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic response team. He stepped down from that role in ...
By April, criticism of his administration's response grew, prompting Trump to blame many others for the state of the crisis, including the media, Democratic governors, the Obama administration, China, and the WHO. [119] His positions and statements undermined international confidence in the United States to lead the world in pandemic response ...
Predict was launched in 2009 in response to the influenza A virus subtype H5N1 "bird flu" outbreak in 2005. It was designed and overseen by Dennis Carroll, then the director of the USAID emerging threats division, [2] with epidemiologist Jonna Mazet of the University of California, Davis, as its global director. [3]
Pages in category "U.S. federal government response to the COVID-19 pandemic" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Operation Warp Speed was formed to encourage private and public partnerships to enable faster approval and production of vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] The name was inspired by terminology for faster-than-light travel used in the Star Trek fictional universe , evoking a sense of rapid progress.
By Eric Sandler Back in June, President Obama announced to Congress that he would be deploying 300 American troops to Iraq in order to help secure U.S. assets and prevent the Iraqi government from ...
Under the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006 (PAHPA) (Pub. L. 109–417 (text)), HHS is the lead agency for the National Response Framework (NRF) for Emergency Support Function 8 (ESF-8). The Secretary of HHS delegates to ASPR the leadership role for all health and medical services support functions in a health emergency or ...