Name This Law
Who’s Who in ISD?
Stuff You May Know
Power of the Purse
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100

Section 1928 of the Social Security Act operationalized this program for the purchase and delivery of qualified pediatric vaccines

What is the Vaccine for Children (VFC) program?

100

The Deputy Director for Management, Operations, Policy, and Communications who presented during this office hour

Who is Kathy Gallagher?

100

A law, regulation, procedure, administrative action, or voluntary practice of governments and other institutions.

What is policy?

100

U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Who is Congress?

100

This type of analysis compares the benefits of an intervention against its costs.

What is cost-benefit analysis?

200

This Section of the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) authorizes the purchase of recommended vaccines for adults and provide associated vaccine operations and vaccine purchase awards to immunization programs.

What is Section 317?

200

This Office works closely with ISD policy office to develop Rollout plans for high-impact or sensitive publications.

Who is ISD Comms Office?

200

This law gives the federal government authority during public health emergencies.

What is the Public Health Service Act (PHSA)?

200

This is the first step in how a bill becomes law.

What is introducing a bill?

200

This language authorizes federal policies and programs to be enacted but not funded.

What is authorizing language?

300

Mandates the development and distribution of written information materials for vaccines, usually including a concise description of the benefits and risks of a vaccine

What is the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA)?

300

Vaccine purchase guru, chief negotiator with vaccine manufactures.  

Who is Jeanne Santoli?

300

Protect people and communities from vaccine-preventable diseases by equitably increasing access, confidence, and demand for vaccines.

What is ISD’s mission?

300

Federal appointees, including CDC Director, HHS Secretary, go through this hearing.  

What is Senate Confirmation?

300

A policy that impacts VFC, Medicaid or CHIP would be considered this level of policy.

What is state-level policy?

400

This Section of PHSA authorizes the HHS Secretary to declare public health emergencies and assist states in responding to designated emergencies.

What is Section 319?

400

Assure the division’s work meets the highest standards for quality, integrity, accuracy, credibility, and innovation.

Who is the Science Office?

400

The authority of a higher level of government to limit or eliminate the power of a lower level of government to regulate public health.

What is preemption?

400

Proactive alerts ISD policy utilize to communicate and engage with Congress and their staff

What is Hill Alert?

400

Ensures decisions about tribes and tribal nations concerning their property and citizens are made with their participation and consent.

What is Tribal Sovereignty?

500

This 2022 Act capped out-of-pocket costs for adult vaccines under Medicare Part D.

What is the Inflation Reduction Act?

500

Provides support to the 64 Immunization and VFC Cooperative Agreement-funded jurisdictions for program implementation through the assignment of CDC staff.

Who is Field Services Branch?

500

There are 27 of these in the U.S. Constitution.

What is an Amendment?

500

This committee reviews legislation relevant to CDC.

What is the Senate HELP Committee? Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP).

500

This Act governs the procedures of administrative agencies, providing a framework for how they engage in rule-making, adjudication, and other actions.

What is the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)?