Welcome and Plenary: From Disruption to Direction: Working through Unprecedented Federal Health Policy Change 

Welcome and Plenary: From Disruption to Direction: Working through Unprecedented Federal Health Policy Change 

Welcome: Courtney Anderson, Dean, Georgia State University College of Law

Ross Silverman, President of ASLME’s Board, Temple University College of Public Health

Panelists:

• Bethany Hamilton, JD, Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
• Richard Hughes IV, JD, MPH, Member Attorney, Epstein Becker Green
• Abby Levine, JD, Associate General Counsel and Senior Policy Counsel, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Angela K. McGowan, JD, MPH, Senior Director, Alliance for the Public’s Health, American Public Health Association
• Kimberly Mutcherson, JD, Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, Rutgers Law School

Federal health agencies, policy, and structure have been disrupted under the current Trump Administration. The Administration has not only taken steps to implement its priorities, but has reduced agency staff, placed greater control over scientific decisions to political appointees, canceled funding for on-going research and public health programs, and pulled back from scientifically-based recommendations. 

This plenary will involve a moderated conversation among invited panelists who are working now to mitigate federal policies that negatively impact health, education, and equity and planning for future efforts to reverse the damage. The panelists will discuss ways they continue to make a positive impact through their work and institutional commitments in this new environment and prepare for the next administration.

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