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CDC Director Walensky to step down in June

Healthcare Dive

Rachel Walensky, who has served as director since 2001, was criticized for the federal government’s handing of the pandemic, announcing in August last year that she planned to reorganize the CDC.

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Reproductive Governance in a Post-Roe US: The Weaponization of Health Systems

Bill of Health

I was living and working in Peru in 2001, when Karen Noelia Llantoy discovered she was pregnant with an anencephalic fetus. The post Reproductive Governance in a Post-Roe US: The Weaponization of Health Systems appeared first on Bill of Health. By Alicia Ely Yamin. Llantoy, a minor at the time, became profoundly depressed.

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The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents

Bill of Health

Such obligations are unnecessary when a government is keen to acquire vaccines that are both affordable and scarce, and when the vaccine manufacturer has the ability to enforce intellectual property rights, if any, in importing countries. The new obligations for listing of patents were not included in the original TRIPS for good reason.

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Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah: A Pioneer in Safe Abortion Law Reform

Bill of Health

She then served as Ghana’s Minister of Health from 1996 to 1998 and as Ghana’s Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1998 to 2001. From Minister to Advocate Dr. Brookman-Amissah returned to Ipas in 2001, where she served as Vice President for Africa until 2014.

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Against American Public Health Exceptionalism

Bill of Health

While the National Institute on Drug Abuse Director characterizes America’s drug overdose mortality as “truly staggering” and the White House calls “the accelerating pace of overdose deaths ‘unacceptable,’” our government refuses to make meaningful changes to reverse course. While the U.S.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: TPG to Take Convey Private for $1.1 Billion

McGuire Wood

Founded in 2001, the company solutions, designed for government-sponsored health plans, are designed to support member interactions, compliance and Medicare processes. TPG Capital will take Convey Health Solutions Holdings (NYSE: CNVY) private, according to a news release. Convey , based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,

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4 Key Ways QHINs Will Improve Healthcare Interoperability

HIT Consultant

QHINs are the pillars of TEFCA network-to-network exchange, providing shared services and governance to securely route queries, responses, and messages across networks for eligible participants including patients, providers, hospitals, health systems, payers, and public health agencies,” according to ONC.