vailsymposium

Healthcare is a difficult and contentious issue that everyone must face. The costs keep rising, especially for end of life care (which takes 17-25% of total healthcare spending). As Americans access preventative care, emergency care, seek diagnoses for complex conditions and access end of life care, we have to ask: what is working well, what is not working well,and how is access decided? Is there equal access to health care, across socioeconomics, geographic areas and beyond? What are the potential future directions of the American healthcare system, including preventative medicine (including vaccines), costs, access to medicine, research and more?

Clay Jenkinson is joined by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (from 2021-2023), former Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (2017-2021), as well as Dr. Loren D. Walensky, a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, the Principal Investigator and Attending Physician in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital and the Director of the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program. The Doctors Walensky, with Clay, will bring their expertise in medical policy as clinicians and in public health to discuss access to healthcare, the cost of current healthcare and its outcomes and the future outlook of the American healthcare system.