LEGISLATIVE UPDATE
Monday, January 27
Health Insurance: House Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth Requests Congressional Budget Office Report on the Current Uninsured Population
Tuesday, January 28
Social Security: Special Committee on Aging Authors Letter Urging the Social Security Administration to Withdraw Proposed Rule Changing When and How the Agency Conducts Continuing Disability Reviews
- House and Senate Democrats Overseeing Social Security Policy Object to Social Security Administration Proposed Rule Changes
Wednesday, January 29
Suicide Prevention: Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Unanimously Passes Bipartisan Bills Combating Veteran Suicide
- House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mark Takano Introduces Veterans’ Acute Crisis Care For Emergent Suicide Symptoms Act to Help Combat Veteran Suicide
REGULATORY UPDATE
Thursday, January 23
FDA: FDA Announces Key Actions to Advance Development of Novel Coronavirus Medical Countermeasures
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Confirms Person-to-Person Spread of New Coronavirus in the United States
Wednesday, January 29
NIH: Dr. John J. Ngai Becomes Director of NIH’s Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative
FDA: FDA Launches Mobile-Friendly Database For HIV Drugs
Thursday, January 30
CMS: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Announces Healthy Adult Opportunity Demonstration Initiative
Friday, January 31
CMS: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Releases Proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters Rule for 2021
UPCOMING EVENTS
HRSA
Meeting of the CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention and Treatment
March 5, 2020 3:00 PM—4:00 PM
HHS
Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines
March 5-6, 2020
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
CDC
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
March 5, 2020, 9:00 AM — 5:00 PM
March 6, 2020, 9:00 AM — 12:00 PM
Building 19, Auditorium B
1600 Clifton Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30329-4027
NIH
National Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Advisory Council
May 12, 2020 8:30 AM — 12:00 PM; 1:00 PM — 2:00 PM
Porter Neuroscience Research Center
Building 35A, Conference Room 610-640
35 Convent Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
NIH
NIH Deafness Disorder and Communication Programs Review
May 29, 2020 10:00 AM
Porter Neuroscience Research Center
35 Convent Drive, Building 35A, Room 620
Bethesda, MD 20892