Join us on for the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Security webinar, Next Generation Masks and Respirators: How the Strategic National Stockpile Can Better Protect Essential Workers and the Public During Pandemics
Masks and respirators have played an important role in keeping people safe in both community and healthcare settings throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In a future large-scale outbreak or pandemic, it is possible to increase the protection of healthcare workers and the public from infection through more efficient, certified, well-fitting, and comfortable masks.
This session will focus on the current status of mask and respirator stockpiling, the scientific advances that could lead to more effective and accessible masks, and policies that the U.S. government could support to build this capacity in anticipation of future public health threats.
Moderator:
• Anita Cicero, JD, Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Speakers:
• Mr. Steven Adams, Director of the Strategic National Stockpile, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Dr. Eric Toner, Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
• Dr. Sandeep Patel, Director, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) DRIVe
A Q&A session will follow the moderated panel.
The non-partisan Steering Committee is sponsored and managed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and enjoys bipartisan leadership from Members of Congress in the House and Senate. The Steering Committee holds regular events focusing on lessons learned from responses to natural, man-made, and other complex public health emergencies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, and explores ways to better mitigate and respond to future health crises.
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