PCAST Meeting: The State of US Preparedness and Public Health as Revealed by the Pandemic

On September 28-29, 2021 the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) held its inaugural meeting. The second day of the meeting focused on what the pandemic has revealed about US public health and preparedness. The Council heard presentations from:
Elizabeth Cameron (National Security Council)
Georges Benjamin (American Public Health Association)
Scott Gottlieb (American Enterprise Institute)
Anne Schuchat (formerly of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Terry Adirim (DoD)
Andy Slavitt (Town Hall Ventures)
Mandy Cohen (North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services)
Charity Dean (The Public Health Company)
Joshua Sharfstein (Johns Hopkins University)
Stéphane Bancel (Moderna)
Karen DeSalvo (Google)
For more information, including the full agenda, please visit whitehouse.gov/PCAST/meetings.