Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement regarding the release of President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2021 Budget: “President Trump’s FY 2021 Budget aims toward a future where HHS’s programs work better for the people we serve; where America’s healthcare system is affordable, personalized, puts patients in control, and treats you like ...
The Trump Administration today launched the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse website: SchoolSafety.gov. This website is a one-stop-shop of resources for Kindergarten through Grade 12 (K-12) administrators, educators, parents and law enforcement to use to prepare for and address various threats related to safety, security, and support in schools. President Trump established the Federal Commission on ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the nation’s first Foundry for American Biotechnology today to produce technological solutions that help the United States protect against and respond to health security threats, enhance daily medical care, and add to the U.S. bioeconomy. This Foundry for American Biotechnology will be housed in Manchester, New ...
On Sunday, February 9, representatives of President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force provided an update at the National Governors Association (NGA) Winter Meeting about the U.S. response to the coronavirus outbreak. The session was hosted by NGA Chair Governor Larry Hogan and was attended by a bipartisan group of more than 25 U.S. governors. During the ...
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a report highlighting accomplishments from 2019. To read the report, visit: https://www.hhs.gov/about/leadership/secretary/2019-annual-report/index.html “The men and women of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can be proud of all they achieved in 2019. This past year was marked by exceptional progress in accomplishing ...
As part of the U.S. government’s ongoing public health response to the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the opening of an Easy Broad Agency Announcement (EZ-BAA) for development of 2019-nCoV diagnostics and is now accepting abstract submissions for potential funding. Under this EZ BAA, the ...
HHS Secretary Alex Azar released the following statement regarding President Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address: “Lowering the cost of healthcare and improving the health of Americans has been a key priority of President Trump during his first three years in office, and tonight, he laid out the results that his leadership has produced. ...
To develop therapeutics to treat the 2019 novel coronavirus, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) will expand an existing collaboration with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Tarrytown, New York. “Emerging infectious diseases can present serious threats to our nation’s health security,” said Rick Bright, ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II declared a public health emergency for the entire United States to aid the nation’s healthcare community in responding to 2019 novel coronavirus. “While this virus poses a serious public health threat, the risk to the American public remains low at this time, and we are working to ...
On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released final data regarding life expectancy and deaths from drug overdoses in 2018. HHS Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement: “In 2018, for the first time in more than two decades, fewer Americans died of drug overdoses than the year ...
