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114: How Federal Agencies Can Work Together
Public Health Review Morning Edition
English - February 08, 2022 10:00 - 5 minutes - 8.23 MB - ★★★★★ - 44 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Government healthcare health healthnews news publichealth Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dr. Josh Sharfstein, a former public health official in Maryland and principal deputy commissioner at the FDA from 2009 until 2011, says continued public confusion over testing, booster doses, and medications could be improved if two federal agencies thrown into the spotlight by the COVID-19 pandemic could find a way to work more closely together; Safe States Alliance Executive Director Richard Hamburg says many public health jurisdictions have had challenges implementing equity approaches into their injury and violence prevention work; and Kristin Ahrens, Pennsylvania’s Deputy Secretary for the Office of Developmental Programs, says telehealth has been a critical tool in helping serve people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities during the pandemic.
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