Thursday, May 2, 2024
5/2/2024
The AMA's Code of Medical Ethics recognizes that at the national, regional, or local level, responses to disasters, including infectious disease outbreaks, require extensive involvement from physicians individually and collectively. Because of their commitment to care for the sick and injured, individual physicians have an obligation to provide urgent medical care during pandemics. This obligation holds even in the face of greater than usual risks to physicians' own safety, health, or life. In order to support physician's obligation in a pandemic, the AMA has a responsibility to be a trusted source of information and education for physicians, health professionals, and the public on infectious disease outbreaks affecting the U.S. population. The AMA's role in the COVID-19 response efforts to date has included providing up-to-date, evidence-based research, resources, and guidance from a variety of trusted sources. The American Medical Association and the JAMA Network are compiling up-to-the-moment information and research for physicians on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat COVID-19. The AMA has created a COVID-19 Resource Center, which includes with evidence-based perspectives from top researchers, AMA's physician leaders, and subject matter experts on how physicians can prepare and respond to a pandemic. The AMA is creating an interface with physicians on the front line of the epidemic and shining a light on the realities of the situation. We are listening empathically to physicians, answering their questions, sharing their experiences and channeling their voices and feedback to other physicians, federal agencies, and health organizations. This includes convening a health system leader roundtable to learn from front-line physician and health system leaders, holding calls with state medical societies and national medical specialty societies to identify challenges and best practices, interviewing physician leaders from front-line areas (i.e., Italy) for key learnings and guidance, conducting Facebook Live question and answer sessions with AMA physician leaders and subject matter experts, fielding physician surveys to identify the key issues and needs among physicians, speaking for physicians with key federal agencies, and showcasing the work of front-line physicians. The AMA seeks to strengthen the nation’s response to emerging and re-emerging infectious disease threats by engaging physicians and medical students in prevention and control efforts. The AMA’s role in responding to COVID-19 is four-fold: (1) providing up-to-date, evidence-based research, resources, and guidance from trusted sources, (2) creating an interface with physicians on the front line of the pandemic to inform the development of tools, resources, and best practices; (3) leveraging the AMA Ed Hub and other AMA platforms to engage physicians in training and targeting guidance and tools to specific physician audiences, and (4) leveraging the Federation of Medicine, which is made up of state and national medical specialty societies, and engaging those disproportionately affected by infectious disease threats to identify and solve problems.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
