Dialogue Series
Influenza Prevention and Healthcare Reform:
Insights for Change and Action
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Leaders in the biopharmaceutical industry recently convened a healthcare summit to address the future of healthcare in the United States. During this summit, thought leaders delivered speeches on topics ranging from vaccine and healthcare policy to the future of the biopharmaceutical industry. Of the many excellent speeches presented, two are especially timely and relevant to the vaccine industry.
The first of these two speeches addresses influenza immunization policy and was presented by a healthcare professional, L.J. Tan, Ph.D. The second speech, presented by Senator Thomas Daschle, a political thought leader, offers a plan for health policy reform.
CSL Biotherapies has reproduced these excerpted speeches for use by consumers, vaccine providers and healthcare
professionals in the communities we serve.
Participants include:
L.J. Tan, Ph.D.
Director of Medicine and Public Health,
American Medical Association
L.J. Tan is Director of Medicine and
Public Health at the American Medical
Association. Until 2005, he was also a
part-time faculty member at Columbia
College’s Institute for Science Education
and Science Communication. He received
his M.S. in Molecular Biology from New
York University, his Ph.D. in Immunology/
Microbiology from Northwestern
University Medical School, and completed
a postdoctoral fellowship in Molecular
Immunology at the University of
Chicago Hospitals.
He currently serves as a member of
the Scientific Advisory Board for the
Immunization Action Coalition and the
Coalition for Safe Needle Disposal, of the
Advisory Committee for Immunization
Practices (ACIP), of the Advisory Council
for the Elimination of Tuberculosis
(ACET), of the Steering Committees for
the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable,
Voices For Vaccines, the 317 Coalition,
and the Partnership to End Cervical
Cancer (and on the Board for its
Foundation).
He also chairs the National Influenza
Vaccine Summit, co-sponsored by
the AMA and the CDC, and recently
organized the first National Immunization
Congress. He serves on the technical
advisory panel for the Joint Commission’s
project on evaluating use of rapid
influenza testing in outpatient settings.
He has served on numerous expert
infectious disease and immunization
panels and also speaks at different
national meetings and media
conferences. L.J. is a member of
numerous professional organizations
including the American Society of
Microbiology, the American Association
of Immunologists and the Infectious
Diseases Society of America.
He lives in Oak Park with his wife, Lara, also an immunologist, three children
and one dog.
Senator Thomas A. Daschle
Senior Policy Advisor, Alston+Bird LLP
Senator Tom Daschle is Special Public
Policy Advisor in Alston & Bird’s
Washington, D.C. office and is a
member of the Legislative and Public
Policy Group. As a non-attorney, Senator
Daschle focused his services on advising
the firm’s clients on issues related
to all aspects of public policy with a
particular emphasis on issues related to
financial services, health care, energy,
telecommunications, taxes, trade and
international matters.
With more than 25 years of service in the
House of Representatives and the Senate
and ten years as Senate Democratic
Leader, Senator Daschle has played an
instrumental role in the development of
U.S. legislative and regulatory policy.
Born in Aberdeen, South Dakota, Senator
Daschle attended South Dakota State
University and graduated in 1969.
Following college, he served for three years as an intelligence officer in the
U.S. Air Force Strategic Command.
After military service, he spent five years
as an aide to South Dakota Senator
James Abourezk.
In 1978, he was elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives, serving eight
years. In 1986, he was elected to the
U.S. Senate and two years later, became
the first Co-Chairman of the Senate
Democratic Policy Committee and the
first South Dakotan to be elected to a
leadership position in the U.S. Congress.
In 1994, Senator Daschle was elected by
his colleagues as their Democratic Leader.
Senator Daschle is one of the longest
serving Senate Democratic Leaders in
history and the only one to serve twice
as both Majority and Minority Leader.
In 2007, he joined with former Majority
Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole and
Howard Baker to create the Bipartisan
Policy Center, an organization dedicated
to finding common ground on some of
the pressing public policy challenges of
our time. He is also Co-Chair of the ONE
Vote ’08 Campaign, along with former
Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist, to
address health and poverty in the
developing world in a more aggressive
and successful way.
He has published articles in numerous
newspapers and periodicals, and is the
author of the books Critical: What We
Can Do About The Health-Care Crisis
and Like No Other Time. He holds a
number of honorary doctorate degrees.
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