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The Carol D’Onofrio LIR Lecture in Public Health
Carol D’Onofrio was Chair of the UCB Retirement Center Board from 2009-2011 and served as a member at large from 2006-08. She served on the Learning in Retirement Committee for many years, chairing the committee in 2017-2019. Carol passed away on April 14, 2020.
Embracing Controversy: A Second Look at CDC Reforms After Covid-19
Tuesday, April 30, 3:00 - 4:30pm
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Speaker: Ann Keller, Associate Professor of Health Politics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Addressing criticism that the agency’s Covid-19 response was lacking, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has proposed internal agency reforms intended to improve its performance during the next pandemic. This talk offers a critique of reform efforts that imply that failure-free performance is achievable if the agency simply improves its access to information collection and processing. Drawing from social science scholarship that addresses the social processes that support scientific learning and policymaking in contested political environments, I ask whether science-informed policy can emerge without controversy and deliberation. Finally, this talk examines what standards public health officials can be held to when one replaces the goal of omniscience with one of transparent learning.
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