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Zoe Anderson
Innovation During a Crisis: The Lessons from Operation Warp Speed
Operation Warp Speed has been hailed as one of the greatest feats in modern American government. Novel vaccines to fight a global pandemic were developed, produced and distributed beginning within eight months of the start of the project, reducing average time of these processes by years, and saving potentially millions of lives.
The co-author of the memorandum that first set out "Operation Warp Speed," Dr. Robert Kadlec, will be our guest for this look inside how this public-private partnership created what has been called one of history’s greatest public health achievements. How did it come about? How did it achieve its goals? What are lessons for the future?
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OFF-THE-RECORD: In keeping with our long tradition at the IOP to ensure honest and candid discussions of politics, all IOP study groups are off-the-record.
Speakers and Presenters
Dr. Robert Kadlec, Former Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (Preparedness and Response);
Eric Hargan, IOP Resident Fellow; Former Acting Secretary and Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services