Stephen Moore is an American conservative writer and television commentator on economic issues. He co-founded and served as president of the Club for Growth from 1999 to 2004. Moore is a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board. He worked at The Heritage Foundation from 1983 to 1987 and again since 2014. Moore advised Herman Cain's 2012 presidential campaign and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Alex Michael Azar II is an American attorney,businessman,lobbyist,and former pharmaceutical executive who served as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2018 to 2021. Azar was nominated to his post by President Donald Trump on November 13,2017,and confirmed by the United States Senate on January 24,2018. He was also chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force from its inception in January 2020 to February 2020,when he was replaced by Vice President Mike Pence.
Peter Kent Navarro is an American economist who served in the Trump administration,first as Deputy Assistant to the President and director of the short-lived White House National Trade Council,then as Assistant to the President,Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy in the new Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy;he was also named the national Defense Production Act policy coordinator. He is a professor emeritus of economics and public policy at the Paul Merage School of Business,University of California,Irvine,and the author of Death by China,among other publications. Navarro ran unsuccessfully for office in San Diego,California,five times. Navarro,who sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election,was the first former White House official ever imprisoned on a contempt-of-Congress conviction.
Kevin Allen Hassett is an American economist who is a former Senior Advisor and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019. He coauthored Dow 36,000,published in 1999,which argued that the stock market was about to have a massive swing upward and would reach 36,000 by 2004. Shortly thereafter,the dot-com bubble burst,causing a massive decline in stock market prices. The Dow did not reach 36,000 until late 2021.
Jason Furman is an American economist and professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. On June 10,2013,Furman was named by President Barack Obama as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). Furman has also served as the deputy director of the U.S. National Economic Council,which followed his role as an advisor for the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign.
Andrew M. Slavitt is an American businessman and healthcare advisor who served as the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2015 to January 2017 and as a temporary Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration. A leader of the team that helped to repair the healthcare.gov website after its initial rollout,he was nominated by Barack Obama to run CMS in July 2015. In January 2021,Slavitt accepted a temporary role as Senior Pandemic Advisor to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic response team. He stepped down from that role in June 2021.
Richard Harris Clarida is an American economist who served as the 21st Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2018 to 2022. Clarida resigned his post on January 14,2022,to return from public service leave to teach at Columbia University for the spring term of 2022. He is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University and,from 2006 until September 2018 and from October 2022 to the present,a Global Strategic Advisor for PIMCO. He is notable for his contributions to dynamic stochastic general equilibrium theory and international monetary economics. He is a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and is a recipient of the Treasury Medal. He also was a proponent of the theory that inflation was transitory during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Public Health England (PHE) was an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care in England which began operating on 1 April 2013 to protect and improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. Its formation came as a result of the reorganisation of the National Health Service (NHS) in England outlined in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. It took on the role of the Health Protection Agency,the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse and a number of other health bodies. It was an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care,and a distinct delivery organisation with operational autonomy.
Darius Lakdawalla is an economist. He is the Quintiles Chair in Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation at the School of Pharmacy at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California and co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Precision Health Economics,a health care consulting firm. Dr. Lakdawalla also serves as the Executive Director of the "Innovation and Value Initiative" (IVI),a multi-stakeholder scientific initiative that aims to improve the way value is measured and rewarded in the healthcare marketplace.
Scott Gottlieb is an American physician,investor,and author who served as the 23rd commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from May 2017 until April 2019. He is presently a senior fellow at the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute (AEI),a partner at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA),a member of the board of directors of drug maker Pfizer,Inc and gene sequencing company Illumina,Inc. and a contributor to cable financial news network CNBC and the CBS News program Face the Nation. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine,Gottlieb is the author of The New York Times best selling book Uncontrolled Spread on the COVID-19 pandemic and the national security vulnerabilities that it revealed. His forthcoming book,The Miracle Century:Making Sense of the Cell Therapy Revolution,traces the scientific achievements that propelled progress in cell therapies.
Stephen T. Parente is an American health economist. He currently serves as a Professor of Finance and the Minnesota Insurance Industry Chair at the Carlson School of Management and Finance at the University of Minnesota. In April 2017,President Donald Trump nominated Parente to be Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Sir Christopher John MacRae Whitty is a British epidemiologist,serving as Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government since 2019.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching consequences beyond the spread of the disease itself and efforts to quarantine it,including political,cultural,and social implications.
Adam Creighton is an Australian journalist and the Washington correspondent for The Australian.
Joseph Grogan is the former director of the United States Domestic Policy Council and assistant to President Donald Trump. Appointed by Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney,Grogan converted the traditionally small office into an influential policy council.
The Coronavirus Aid,Relief,and Economic Security Act,also known as the CARES Act,is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27,2020,in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The spending primarily includes $300 billion in one-time cash payments to individual people who submit a tax return in America,$260 billion in increased unemployment benefits,the creation of the Paycheck Protection Program that provides forgivable loans to small businesses with an initial $350 billion in funding,$500 billion in loans for corporations,and $339.8 billion to state and local governments.
Planning and preparing for pandemics has happened in countries and international organizations. The World Health Organization writes recommendations and guidelines,though there is no sustained mechanism to review countries' preparedness for epidemics and their rapid response abilities. National action depends on national governments. In 2005–2006,before the 2009 swine flu pandemic and during the decade following it,the governments in the United States,France,UK,and others managed strategic health equipment stocks,but they often reduced stocks after the 2009 pandemic in order to reduce costs.
Scott William Atlas is an American radiologist,political commentator,and health care policy advisor. He is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution,a conservative think tank located at Stanford University. During the United States presidential campaigns of 2008,2012,and 2016,Atlas was a Senior Advisor for Health Care to several presidential candidates. From 1998 to 2012 he was a professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center.
The federal government of the United States initially responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country with various declarations of emergency,some of which led to travel and entry restrictions and the formation of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. As the pandemic progressed in the U.S. and globally,the U.S. government began issuing recommendations regarding the response by state and local governments,as well as social distancing measures and workplace hazard controls. State governments played a primary role in adopting policies to address the pandemic. Following the closure of most businesses throughout a number of U.S. states,President Donald Trump announced the mobilization of the National Guard in the most affected areas. In January 2022,President Biden confirmed there's no federal solution to the pandemic as cases were climbing dramatically.
Constance Hunter is an American economist. She is a former principal and chief economist at KPMG,and has served as president of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE). A member of several think tanks,including the Council on Foreign Relations,she is among the first economists to forecast various historic economic events,including the 2001 dot-com bubble,the 2007–2008 mortgage and credit crisis,and the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
