39 - Anand Parekh, M.D.: Why Prevention Should Be the Nation’s Priority

I'm excited to be joined by my good friend, Dr. Anand Parekh, who serves as chief medical advisor for the Bipartisan Policy Center. We've worked together since he joined the BPC in 2015, formulating policies related to the obesity epidemic and nutrition, domestic and global HIV/AIDS, business and public health collaboration, social isolation, rural health, and so many more issues. Anand is a board-certified internal medicine physician, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He previously served for a decade at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including as an HHS deputy assistant secretary for health from 2008 to 2015. There he played an instrumental role in the implementation of the Recovery Act's Prevention and Wellness Fund, the Affordable Care Act's prevention initiatives, and HHS Multiple Chronic Conditions initiative. His new book, Prevention First: Policymaking for a Healthier America, was released in December, 2019. It argues that prevention must be our nation's top health policy priority. 

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