Tag Archives: government

Dr. Louis Sullivan speaking at NIH. September 27

A Personal Perspective on Race, Opportunity and the U.S. Health System

Louis W. Sullivan, MD, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 1989–1993, will speak on “A Personal Perspective on Race, Opportunity and the U.S. Health System,” at 2pm on October 4 in Lipsett Auditorium, located in Building 10 on the campus of the National Institutes of Health. This talk is part of the NLM’s […]

A color halftone printed postcard showing two small figures and a sweeping landscape of mountains, lakes and evergreen forest. August 25

America’s National Parks: Preserved for Public Health

By Anne Rothfeld The National Park Service (NPS) celebrates its centennial on August 25, 2016.  From Maine to Hawaii, the breadth of NPS includes parks, seashores, monuments, Indian reservations, and historic sites.  America’s parks are filled with an abundance of natural wonders: glaciers and rivers, flora and fauna, animals and insects, canyons and sand dunes, […]

Three men in suits look at a report during the President's Commission on Heart Disease Cancer and Stroke. May 13

“you are going to find the answers”

By Sarah Eilers Regional Medical Programs You have, among you, some of the great doctors, some of the great public servants of our time. And somehow, some way, sometime, you are going to find the answers…. With these words 50 years ago, in the spring of 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson asked Congress and the […]