Public health officials on what we’ve learned and if we can ever win the battle against misinformation.
| Andy Slavitt Former Senior Advisor, Biden White House Covid Response Team — Andy Slavitt was President Joe Biden’s White House senior advisor for the Covid response. He has led many of the nation’s most important health care initiatives, serving as President Barack Obama’s head of Medicare and Medicaid and overseeing the turnaround, implementation, and defense of the Affordable Care Act. He is the author of Preventable, a bestselling account of the US’s coronavirus response, released in 2021. | | |
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| Michelle Williams Dean of Faculty, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — Michelle Williams is dean of the faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Angelopoulos professor in public health and international development, a joint faculty appointment at the Harvard Chan School and Harvard Kennedy School. She is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist and an award-winning educator and academic leader. Her scientific work is focused on the areas of reproductive, perinatal, and molecular epidemiology. | | |
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| Nancy Messonnier, MD Executive Director, Pandemic Prevention and Health Systems, Skoll Foundation — Nancy Messonnier is the executive director for Pandemic Prevention and Health Systems at the Skoll Foundation. Messonnier will help drive efforts to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic and build a global preparedness and response system to prevent future pandemics. Most recently, she directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and she was the chief architect of the Covid-19 vaccine implementation program. | | |
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