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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Fmr. FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg on Testing and Where We Go From Here

Published: March 20, 2020, 10:08 p.m.

Today, Andrew and Steve talk to Dr. Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine and member of the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America\u2019s Health Security. They discuss what\u2019s happened with testing in the U.S., the \u2018global arms race\u2019 to develop a vaccine, and how the U.S. and the world can develop, produce, and distribute any potential vaccine in an equitable way.\xa0\nDr. Hamburg is an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine. She currently serves as the foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and 2018 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Hamburg is a former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), known for advancing regulatory science, modernizing regulatory pathways, and globalization of the agency.