Following the event at 3:30 PM EDT, Secretary Sebelius will discuss the announcement on a conference call with members of the media, HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. HowardKoh and the Director of the HHS Office of Health Reform, Jeanne Lambrew.
After a 2010 study by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences found serious shortcomings in resources and concluded that our approach to viral hepatitis needed a serious overhaul, Assistant Secretary for Health Dr. HowardKoh convened a working group to address the issues identified by the IOM report and its 22 specific recommendations.