AHRQ National Advisory Council to Meet Virtually on July 14

The National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will meet virtually, through the Zoom platform, on July 14, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. E.D.T. The council provides advice to the Department of Health and Human Services secretary and the director of the agency. The council consists of 21 members from the private sector and seven ex-officio members from other federal health agencies.

The meeting will feature several presentations including:

• A review of recent agency accomplishments and data analytics by Director Gopal Khanna, M.B.A. and David Meyers, M.D., Deputy Director and Chief Physician.
• A discussion of AHRQ and Covid-19 by Robert McNellis, M.P.H., P.A., Senior Advisor for Primary Care, and David Meyers.
• A discussion on key recommendations from an independent study about improving health services research in the Federal government, by Jaime Zimmerman, M.P.H., P.M.P., Senior Program Advisor, and David Meyers.

A detailed agenda is available at https://www.ahrq.gov/news/events/nac/2020-07-nac/071420-agenda.html. The meeting is open to the public. If you would like to make a public comment during the AHRQ NAC Meeting, please email AHRQ National Advisory at NationalAdvisoryCouncil@ahrq.hhs.gov no later than 12:00 p.m. on July 14.

Registration is not required. But because of the continued risks of in-person meetings during the pandemic, the meeting will ONLY be available through Zoom starting at 10:00 a.m. For all information, including how to sign into Zoom, go to https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/news/events/nac/instructions-zoom.pdf. We encourage you to sign in in advance of the meeting.

Closed captioning will be provided during this event.

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