Health & Life Sciences

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.