This session, hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Security will examine how Federal agencies, Congress, and the White House can foster greater agility, speed, innovation and coordination to re-imagine research and development for pandemic readiness. Speakers include: Eric Lander, MD, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dawn O’Connell, JD, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services  and Gigi Gronvall, PhD, Senior Scholar, The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.

When/ Where: 1 p.m. ET, November 17, 2021 (virtual)

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This National Press Foundation briefing will help journalists explain the clinical trial results in plain language and also look ahead to how vaccinating children will affect family, schools, day care, extracurricular activities and more. And it will offer tips for covering vaccine hesitancy, misinformation and disinformation.

Tim Herrera, author, former editor of The New York Times’s Smarter Living and the writer of the Substack newsletter Freelancing With Tim, will be hosting a panel of experts who will dive into the nitty gritty of perfecting the pitch. Tim regularly hosts Zoom panels with industry veterans and also offer advice in the newsletter on pitching, setting rates, building a freelance business and writing.

When/Where: 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, November 17, 2021 (online)

Cost: $3.00

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