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Advancing Public Health in Uncertain Political Times

Summit Overview

The Bloomberg American Health Initiative will bring together public health practitioners, policymakers, community organizations, and Bloomberg Fellows in Washington, D.C. from December 2-4, 2024 to explore strategies to ground public health solutions in evidence and forge connections to advance policies to improve health. 

Speakers at this year's annual summit will include leaders from state and federal public health agencies, political figures, faculty from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, journalists, and representatives from community organizations. Bloomberg Fellows will also have the opportunity to meet and strategize with the Initiative’s growing network of collaborators who are on the cutting-edge of public health in communities across the country. Sessions will cover strategies to work across political divides to evaluate and reform long-standing policies that impact public health and much more. 

While the Summit is invitation-only, the main plenary session on December 3 will be livestreamed and available to the general public.

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Agenda

We cannot wait for the 2024 Bloomberg American Health Summit! The in-person event is by invitation only. A livestream of the plenary sessions will be available here on December 3 from 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM EST. A full agenda is available here.

All agenda items are subject to change.

Speakers

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General

Muriel Bowser

Mayor, Washington D.C.

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Jerome Adams

Former U.S. Surgeon General & Director of Health Equity, Purdue University

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Brian Fitzpatrick

U.S. Representative, Pennsylvania 

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Jonathan Capehart

Associate Editor, The Washington Post

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Rosa DeLauro

U.S. House of Representatives, Connecticut's Third District

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Washington Correspondent, The New York Times What I Cover

General

Thomas Dobbs

Former Health Commissioner, State of Mississippi

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Madlen Davies

Senior Editor, The Examination

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Francis Collins

Distinguished Investigator, National Institutes of Health

General

Xavier Beccera

Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

General

Keshia Pollack Porter

Bloomberg Centennial Chair, Vice Dean for Faculty, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Violence

Annie Andrews

CEO and Founder, Their Future. Our Vote.

Violence

Chip Brownlee

Reporter, The Trace

Violence

Mark Talbot

Chief of Police, Norfolk, Virginia

Violence

Mallory O'Brien

Associate Scientist, Center for Gun Violence Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Violence

Riley Griffin

Healthcare Reporter, Bloomberg News

Addiction & Overdose

Yngvild Olsen

Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Environmental Challenges

David Zipper

Senior Fellow, MIT Mobility Initiative

Environmental Challenges

Shima Hamidi

Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health

Environmental Challenges

Robert Hampshire

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology & Chief Science Officer, U.S. Department of Transportation

Adolescent Health

Cynthia Bissett Germanotta

President and Co-Founder, Born This Way Foundation

Adolescent Health

Jamie Ducharme

Health Correspondent, TIME Magazine

Adolescent Health

Priya Byati

Program Coordinator, CRISP DC

Adolescent Health

Jaytoya Manget

Faculty Nurse Practitioner and Director of Nursing for Children's School Services, Children's National Hospital  

Adolescent Health

Beth Marshall

Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Adolescent Health

Food Systems for Health

Marion Nestle

Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, New York University

Food Systems for Health

Yasmin Tayag

Staff Writer, The Atlantic

Food Systems for Health

DeJuan Strickland

Community Leader and Philanthropist

Food Systems for Health

Robert Campbell

Vice President, Policy, Feeding America

Food Systems for Health

Kelli Case

Senior Staff Attorney, Indigenous Food and Agriculture Initiative

A full list of speakers is coming soon