2023 National Health Research Forum

9:45 am — Welcome and Opening Remarks

• Sudip Parikh, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals

10:00 am — Mental Health Research

Moderator:

• Arthur Evans Jr., PhD, Chief Executive Officer, American Psychological Association

Speakers:

• Nakela Cook, MD, MPH, Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
• Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD, Director, National Institute of Mental Health
• Patrick Kennedy, Founder, The Kennedy Forum, Congressman, RI-1 (1995-2011)
• Robert Valdez, PhD, MHSA, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

10:50 am — IRA Implementation Update

Moderator:

• Eleanor Dehoney, MPH, Senior Vice President, Policy and Advocacy, Research!America

Speakers:

• Matt Kazan, MPP, Managing Director, Avalere
• Randall Rutta, MA, Chief Executive Officer, National Health Council

11:30 am — Climate and Infection Control

Moderator:

• Frank Sesno, Professor and Director of Strategic Initiatives, The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs

Speakers:

• John Balbus, MD, MPH, Acting Director, Office of Climate Change and Health Equity, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Diane Flayhart, MBA, Director of Global of Public Health, Antimicrobial Resistance Initiatives, Becton Dickinson
• Christina Hull, PhD, Professor, Biomolecular Chemistry and Medical Microbiology & Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Monk Yun Rou, Ordained Taoist Monk (China), Author, Daoist Teacher, Tai Chi Master, Speaker

12:20 pm — Combatting Misinformation

Moderator:

• Jenny Luray, MPA, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Public Engagement, Research!America

Speakers:

• Ross McKinney Jr., MD, Chief Scientific Officer, Association of American Medical Colleges
• Reed Tuckson, MD, FACP, Managing Director, Tuckson Health Connections
• Claire Wardle, PhD, Co-founder and Co-Director, Information Futures Lab; Professor, Practice of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University

1:10 pm — What Happens with My Data in Health Research?

Moderator:

• E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA, Dean Emeritus and Former University Executive Vice President, Endowed Professor and Director, Center for Advanced Research Training and Innovation (CARTI), Senior Scientist, Center for Birth Defects Research, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Speakers:

• Barbara Bierer, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Gwen Nichols, MD, Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
• John Olwal, Head of Tech-Ethics and Data Privacy, Takeda

1:50 pm — Fireside Chat: The Future of Research and Innovation

Speakers:

• Elias Zerhouni, MD, Professor Emeritus, Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; Former Director, National Institutes of Health, 2002-2008
• Dietmar Berger, MD, PhD, Chief Medical Officer, Global Head of Development, Sanofi

2:30 pm — Patient Voice

• Russ Paulsen, MA, Chief Operating Officer, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s

2:50 pm — Reimagining Clinical Trials

Moderator:

• Tim Haynes, Senior Director of Communications, Research!America

Speakers:

• Shobha Dhadda, PhD, Chief Clinical Science & Operations Officer, Clinical Evidence Generation, Deep Human Biology Learning, Eisai Inc.
• Karin Hoelzer, DVM, PhD, Director, Policy and Regulatory Affairs, National Organization for Rare Disorders
• Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institute of Health

3:45 pm — Chips and Science One Year Later

Moderator:

• Keith Yamamoto, PhD, Vice Chancellor, Science Policy and Strategy; Director, Precision Medicine; Professor Emeritus, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco

Speakers:

• Arati Prabhakar, PhD, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Sethuraman Panchanathan, PhD, Director, National Science Foundation

4:25 pm — Bolstering our Research Workforce

Moderator:

• Sudip Parikh, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Executive Publisher, Science Family of Journals

Speakers:

• Charles Barber, DTL, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, National Science Foundation
• Marie Bernard, MD, Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity, National Institutes of Health
• Maria Ryan, DDS, PhD, Executive Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Colgate-Palmolive Company
• Jamelle Simmons, PhD, Dr. Louis Sullivan Science Policy Fellow, Research!America

5:15 pm — Priorities and Progress: A Conversation with FDA Commissioner Rob Califf

Speakers:

• Nancy Brown, Chief Executive Officer, American Heart Association
• Robert Califf, MD, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

1:30 pm — Opening Remarks

Speakers:

• Mary Woolley, President and CEO, Research!America
• Pamela Norris, PhD, Vice Provost, Research, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University

1:50 pm — AI and Drug Development: What Does Pressing Forward Mean?

Moderator:

• William Brangham, Correspondent and Producer, PBS NewsHour

Speakers:

• Tala Fakhouri, PhD, MPH, Associate Director for Policy Analysis, Office of Medical Policy and Initiatives, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
• Jakub Kostal, PhD, Director, MS Environmental and Green Chemistry Program, The George Washington University
• David Reese, MD, Executive Vice President, Research and Development, Amgen

2:35 pm — Fireside Chat: Updates on the National Institutes of Health with Acting Director Larry Tabak

Moderator:

• Mary Woolley, President and CEO, Research!America.

Speakers:

• Larry Tabak, DDS, PhD, Acting Director, National Institutes of Health

3:10 pm —  Pandemic +3—Speed, Progress, and Lessons Learned

Moderator:

• Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director, American Public Health Association

Speakers:

• Dylan George, PhD, Director, Operations for the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Cyrus Shahpar, MD, MBA, MPH, Director for Interagency Pandemic and Biological Threats Intelligence, Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR), White House

3:45 pm — Fireside Chat: Maternal Mortality

Moderator: 

• Deborah Deas, MD, MPH, Dean, School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences, University of California, Riverside

Speakers:

• Diana Bianchi, MD, Director, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH;  Head of the Prenatal Genomics and Therapy Section, Medical Genetics Branch, NHGRI.

4:15 pm — Research!America Discovery, Innovation and Health Prize Presentation

Moderator:

• Mary Woolley, President and CEO, Research!America

Speakers:

• Annaliesa Anderson, PhD, Senior Vice President and Head, Vaccine Research and Development, Pfizer
• Discovery, Innovation and Health Prize Winner

4:50 pm — Innovative Partnerships

Moderator:

• Maya Goldman, Health Reporter and Co-Author, Axios Vitals Newsletter, Axios

Speakers:

• Sally Allain, MBA, MSc, Head, JLABS @ Washington, DC, Johnson & Johnson Innovation
• Gary Disbrow, PhD, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; Director, Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
• Renee Wegrzyn, PhD, Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

5:20 pm — Closing Remarks

• Mary Woolley, President and CEO, Research!America

5:30-7 pm — Reception (The George Washington University USC Continental Ballroom)