All the Tools at Our Disposal: Leveraging Digital Health to Combat COVID-19
A Webinar from the NAM Leadership Consortium
Where: Webinar
When: October 7, 2020 | 10:00am – 1:30pm ET
Agenda
10:00am | Welcome, Introductions, and Meeting Overview
- Michael McGinnis, National Academy of Medicine
10:20 am | Overview of Testing in the United States
Participants will hear an assessment of digital tools being employed in COVID-19 testing efforts across various communities in the United States. Reactors will offer a response on the strengths and limitations of these tools with respect to their efficacy, access, and uptake. The session will end with audience Q&A.
- Thomas Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies
- Jay Butler, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Linda Rae Murray, University of Illinois School of Public Health
10:50 am | Contact Tracing: New York City as a Case Study
Participants will hear an assessment of digital health contact tracing tools – their advantages, disadvantages, and implications for a socially, economically, and racially diverse population. The session will end with audience Q&A.
- Theodore Long, NYC Health + Hospitals
- Urs Gasser, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
- Emiliano Falcon-Morano, ACLU
11:20 am | Digital Tools for Treatment and Monitoring
Participants will explore issues of equity and access to telehealth and remote monitoring tools. The session will end with audience Q&A.
- Aletha Maybank, American Medical Association
- Gezzer Ortega, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Courtney Lyles, University of California San Francisco
11:50 am | Panel Discussion: Call to Action and Q&A
Panelists from previous sessions will reflect on how to most effectively deploy digital tools for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and how to advance digital approaches that will support long-term preparedness equitably across all communities and populations. Panelists will also participate in audience Q&A.
1:15 pm | Summary and Next Steps
Collaborative co-chairs will synthesize the day’s discussion and offer participants a chance to reflect on new opportunities to improve digital health development and adoption following this webinar.
- Jonathan Perlin, Hospital Corporation of America
- Reed Tuckson, Tuckson Health Connections
- Michael McGinnis, National Academy of Medicine
1:30 pm | Adjourn
The webinar will be recorded, and a recording will be made publicly available after the event concludes. No certificates of attendance or continuing education credit will be issued for attending this webinar.
Questions? Please email LeadershipConsortium@nas.edu.
