In this special Transition 2021 series of The President’s Inbox, James M. Lindsay sits down each week with experts to discuss the challenges facing the incoming Biden administration. This week, CFR’s Senior Fellow for Europe, Matthias Matthijs, and Senior Fellow for Japan studies, Sheila A. Smith, assess the prospects for repairing America’s relations with allies in Europe and Asia.
Meeting
A Global Look at Primary Care in the Era of COVID-19
Friday,
October 30, 2020
REUTERS/Sergio Perez
Speakers
Head of the Health Division, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations; President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives, an Initiative of Vital Strategies; Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; @DrTomFrieden
Vice President, International Health Policy and Practice Innovations, Commonwealth Fund
Presider
Senior Policy Fellow, Robert J. Margolis Center for Health Policy, Duke University
Panelists examine challenges and best practices in providing primary care around the world, the vitality of access to primary care, and how healthcare settings have evolved in the era of COVID-19.
Suggested additional reading:
- Tom Frieden and Dan Schwarz, “Primary Care Doctors Could be COVID-19's Next Victims,” the Hill
- Tom Freiden et al., “Scaling Up Effective Treatment of Hypertension—A Pathfinder for Universal Health Coverage,” Journal of Clinical Hypertension
- Madeline Pesec et al., “Primary Health Care That Works: The Costa Rican Experience,” Health Affairs
- Shanoor Seervai, “Cuba: Where Primary Care Is All About Community,” Commonwealth Fund
- Primary Care, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Noam N. Levey, “A Tale of Two Systems,” Commonwealth Fund
- Michelle M. Doty, Roosa Tikkanen, Arnav Shah, and Eric C. Schneider, “Primary Care Physicians’ Role In Coordinating Medical And Health-Related Social Needs In Eleven Countries,” Health Affairs
- “Realising the Potential of Primary Health Care,” Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development