ACCP Joins Multi-Stakeholder Advocacy Effort to Strengthen Nation’s Public Health Preparedness
August 08, 2022
ACCP Joins Multi-Stakeholder Advocacy Effort to Strengthen Nation’s Public Health Preparedness
ACCP joined a diverse and influential group of health care professionals and other key stakeholders in support of the PREVENT Pandemics Act (S. 3799), bipartisan legislation to strengthen the nation’s public health and medical preparedness and response systems in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The PREVENT Pandemics Act would improve our testing and treatment capabilities and address the disparities which make public healthcare challenges harder on vulnerable populations.
The legislation includes provisions that would:
- Establish a White House office to oversee pandemic preparedness and response; modernize and strengthen the medical supply chain
- Improve the safety and security and address foreign influence in biomedical research; bolster public health and allied health workforces; strengthen blood supply collaboration
- Reauthorize two grant programs to improve trauma care, including in rural areas
- Update the ability of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director to appoint and review the agency’s leadership.
Click here to read the Stakeholder Letter.
Click here to view S. 3799 in full.