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Health & Life Sciences

Saving 3.1 Million Lives a Year with a President’s Emergency Plan to Combat Acute Childhood Malnutrition

Like HIV/AIDS, acute childhood malnutrition is deadly but treatable with the right approach. A President’s Emergency Plan for Acute Childhood Malnutrition could catalyze the fight against malnutrition and direct resources to greater impact.

Energy, Environment & Climate
Health & Life Sciences

Investing in Digital Agriculture Innovation to Secure Food, Yields, and Livelihoods

Improving local food security is critical to ending poverty and eliminating hunger, and United States Government can be a global leader. From Jonathan Lehe, Nick Milne, and Gautam Bastian, a proposal for USAID, Feed the Future, and its partners to launch a Digital Agriculture for Food Security Challenge to improve crop yields worldwide.

Energy, Environment & Climate
Health & Life Sciences

Unlocking the U.S. Bioeconomy with the Plant Genome Project

Plants are key to enable a diversified and climate-resilient food system. Mary Fernandes proposes a Plant Genome Project (PGP), a robust Human Genome Project-style initiative to build a dataset of genetic information on plant species.

Health & Life Sciences
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Pandemic Readiness Requires Bold Federal Financing for Vaccines

Getting ahead of the next pandemic is impossible without government financing.

Health & Life Sciences

Masks via Mail: Maintaining Critical COVID-19 Infrastructure for Future Public Health Threats

To protect against future infectious disease outbreaks, the Department of Health and Human Services Coordination Operations and Response Element should develop and maintain the capacity to regularly deliver N95 respirator masks to every home using a mail delivery system.

Health & Life Sciences

Addressing the Mental Health Crisis Among Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers in STEM

The federal government must ensure that success for early-career STEM professionals does not demand mental-health sacrifice.

Health & Life Sciences

Establishing a National Endemic Disease Surveillance Initiative (NEDSI)

The Biden-Harris Administration should establish a National Endemic Disease Surveillance Initiative (NEDSI) to remove barriers to tracking and predicting endemic, infectious diseases.

Health & Life Sciences
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Combating Bias in Medical Innovation

The Biden-Harris Administration must act to address bias in medical technology at the development, testing and regulation, and market-deployment and evaluation phases.

Health & Life Sciences

Regulating Probiotic Use and Improving Veterinary Care to Bolster Honeybee Health

The FDA and USDA should improve the administration of antibiotics in apiculture and strengthen the regulation of pre- and probiotic supplements marketed to commercial beekeepers. 

Health & Life Sciences

Supercharging Biomedical Science at the National Institutes of Health

NSF should rigorously evaluate its research funding mechanisms to foster scientific breakthroughs.

Health & Life Sciences

Eliminating Childhood Lead Poisoning Worldwide

The United States should adopt a roadmap to help LMICs implement policies needed to achieve global elimination of childhood lead poisoning.

Health & Life Sciences
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Creating Advanced Market Commitments and Prizes for Pandemic Preparedness

The U.S. should invest in AMCs and prizes for vaccine development and deployment as part of the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan.

Health & Life Sciences
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Curing Alzheimer’s by Investing in Aging Research

Now is the time for the NIA to drive science-first funding for the field of aging.

Health & Life Sciences
National Security

Maintaining Military Medical Readiness Today Saves Lives Tomorrow

The White House should expand military-civilian partnerships in trauma care to achieve a national goal of eliminating preventable deaths.

Health & Life Sciences

Federal Approval of Over-the-Counter Birth-Control Pills

The U.S. should approve over-the-counter (OTC) birth-control pills to ensure universal access to contraception.

Health & Life Sciences

Establish a $100M National Lab of Neurotechnology for Brain Moonshots

Expand the BRAIN Initiative by investing in a National Laboratory of Neurotechnology to understand how the brain works at a deeper level.

Health & Life Sciences
Technology Policy

Creating a National Infrastructure for Digital Mental Health Services

Addressing the largely unregulated space of digital mental health products is critical to mitigate harm of unverified solutions.

Health & Life Sciences

Repurposing Generic Drugs to Combat Cancer

Repurposing existing drugs, especially off-patent generics, is the fastest way to develop new cancer treatments.

Health & Life Sciences

Opening Up Mortality Data for Health Research

Comprehensive and reliable mortality data will enable more effective response to rapidly evolving public health challenges.

Health & Life Sciences

Delivering Healthcare Services to the American Home

Increasing the share of health services provided directly to patient homes is a significant opportunity to improve healthcare in the U.S.

Health & Life Sciences

A Federal Adaptive, On-Demand Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Initiative

An investment of $5 billion over five years will improve U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing infrastructure.

Health & Life Sciences

Rethinking Payment for Prevention in Healthcare

The government should provide incentives to healthcare providers that scale up and reduce costs of delivering preventive interventions.

Health & Life Sciences

Elevating Patients as Partners in Management of Their Health Data and Tissue Samples

The next administration should empower patients as partners in managing of their health data and tissue samples.

Health & Life Sciences

Providing High-Quality Telehealth Care for Veterans

The Federal Government should build critical technology infrastructure that will facilitate expansion and use of telehealth for veterans.

Health & Life Sciences

An Evidence-based Approach to Controlling Drug Costs

The next administration should control drug costs through an evidence-based approach to optimizing drug dosing and improving outcomes.

Health & Life Sciences
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Advancing Economic, Health, and Racial Equity by Increasing the Use of Evidence and Data

The next administration should ensure equitable recovery and economic mobility by promoting evidence-based decision-making across agencies.

Health & Life Sciences
Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

A National Bioeconomy Manufacturing and Innovation Initiative

A National Bioeconomy Manufacturing and Innovation Initiative would combat COVID-19, foster economic recovery, and address climate change.

Health & Life Sciences

A Draft Executive Order to Ensure Healthy Homes: Eliminating Lead and Other Housing Hazards

Establish a cabinet-level Presidential Task Force on Lead Poisoning Prevention and Healthy Housing to eliminate lead poisoning.

Health & Life Sciences

Creating an Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative for PPE and Other Medical Device Supplies

A proposal for the creation of a national collaborative to address PPE and medical device manufacturing in the United States.

Energy, Environment & Climate
Health & Life Sciences

Preventing the Next Pandemics: An Upstream Approach to Novel National Security Threats

A Federal strategy to monitor and mitigate the major factors that contribute to emerging infectious disease to eliminate future pandemics.

Health & Life Sciences

Building Medical Supply Chain Resilience through a U.S. Manufacturing Reserve and Digital Stockpile

The Federal Government must create an emergency response plan to activate domestic, local medical supply manufacturing.

Health & Life Sciences

A National Strategy to Counter COVID-19 Misinformation

The next administration should establish an office at the Dept. of Health and Human Services dedicated to combating COVID-19 misinformation.

Energy, Environment & Climate
Health & Life Sciences

Improving Federal Management of Wildlife Movement and Emerging Infectious Disease

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed systematic vulnerabilities in how wildlife movement and emerging infectious diseases should be managed.

Health & Life Sciences
Technology Policy

Creating a COVID-19 Commission on Public Health Misinformation

The next administration should create a high-level COVID-19 Commission on Public Health Misinformation.

Health & Life Sciences

Adopting an Open-Source Approach to Pharmaceutical Research and Development

Address pharmaceutical market failures by launching a new program that takes an open-source approach to pharmaceutical R&D.

Health & Life Sciences

Transforming Infant Nutrition to Give Every Baby a Strong, Healthy Foundation

A three-pronged approach to transform infant nutrition through the National Advisory Council on Maternal, Infant, and Fetal Nutrition.

Health & Life Sciences

Expanding the Health Policy Mission of the Veterans Health Administration

A proposal to coordinate and consolidate the healthcare innovation, demonstration, and implementation capacities of the VA and HHS.

Health & Life Sciences

Building Trust In the Health Data Ecosystem

A proposal to build trust in the health data ecosystem.

Health & Life Sciences

Addressing the Organ Donor Crisis

Steps the federal government can take to end the organ transplant wait list.

Health & Life Sciences

Creating the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency (HARPA)

The federal government can directly address the massive market failures at the center of our healthcare enterprise by establishing a new Health Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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