Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-6-2021
ISSN
0028-4793
Publisher
Massachusetts Medical Society
Language
en-US
Abstract
We believe that Congress should act on a bipartisan basis to fix U.S. public health institutions. Legislators could decide to merely buttress current institutions, as former commissioners have suggested be done for the FDA.1 Alternatively, legislators could consider a broad reorganization of public health functions and create a superagency, whose purview would include everything from the approval of drugs and devices to the maintenance of national stockpiles of protective equipment.
Recommended Citation
Jacqueline Salwa & Christopher Robertson,
Designing an Independent Public Health Agency
,
in
384
The New England Journal of Medicine
1684
(2021).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3811
Comments
From The New England Journal of Medicine, Jacqueline Salwa and Christopher Robertson, Designing an Independent Public Health Agency, Volume 384, Page 1684, Copyright © 2021 Massachusetts Medical Society. Reprinted with permission.