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Virtual Program | A Conversation with Marcella Nunez-Smith on COVID-19 and Health Equity
October 19 at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT
Guest
Marcella Nunez-Smith
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December 8 at 9:00 am EST | Part 1: Addressing Drug Addiction and the Overdose Epidemic: A Conversation with White House ONDCP Director Rahul Gupta
Part 1
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Rahul Gupta
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, The White House
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How Drug Trafficking Is Fueling the Opioid Crisis
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we are now entering the "third wave"
of the nation's opioid crisis, which involves staggering trends related to fentanyl and the global drug-trafficking trade.
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Critical Decisions for Critical Care: What Has the Pandemic Revealed?
December 8 at 1:30 pm PT/4:30 pm ET
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A Conversation with Ben Carson, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
This session will open with a conversation with Ben Carson, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development, followed by a panel discussion.
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Advances in Science: Lessons Learned from the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Applied to COVID-19
Hosted by Robert W. Eisinger, PhD, Acting Deputy Director for Program Coordination, Planning, and
Strategic Initiatives at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), with guest speaker Michael S.
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Advances in Science: From Getting to Zero+ to COVID-19 and Everything in Between
Hosted by Dr. Robert Eisinger, NIH, with guest speaker Dr. Victoria A. Cargill, Assistant Commissi
oner of Health at the Baltimore City Health Department.
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The Cost of Chronic Disease and the Future of Treatment
The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases—including diabetes, heart disease, and multiple type
s of cancer—is a global trend that has seen a sharp rise in the MENA region.
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December 7 at 10:30 am EST | Reimagining the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in the United States
Ideally, our nation's pharmaceutical supply chain should provide medicines and medical supplies of
the highest quality, in the right quantity, to the right customer at the right place.
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Confronting the Obesity and Diabetes Epidemics
An estimated 30.3 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, or 9.4% of the population. In 2017, th
e costs of diagnosed diabetes totaled $327 billion, including $237 billion in health care costs and $90 billion in reduced productivity.
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May 2 at 11:30 am PDT | Is Critical Infrastructure in Place to Respond to Another Pandemic?
One of the lessons learned from COVID-19 is that the healthcare and public-health infrastructure i
n the US—let alone globally—was inadequate for the scale of the emergency, and the costs in lives and wealth have been astronomical.
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