Recent Events: Emerging Issues

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Ph.D., Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication and Director at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, will discuss the Annenberg Constitution Day Survey.

Please join us for the next episode of Civics Forward: Investing in Civics to Secure Democracy—A Business Imperative as we explore the tie between civic education and the U.S. economy. Travelers’ Janice Brunner, Group General Counsel and Head of Civic Engagement, will be joined by William A. Galston, Ezra K. Zilkha Chair and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and Louise Dube, Executive Director, iCivics.

Chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Thomas Hicks, joins Senior Vice President of Emerging Issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Michael Carney, for this discussion.

White House Covid Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha will unpack the current state of COVID-19, including what we need to know about reinfection and BA.5 – the most transmissible subvariant yet. We’ll also discuss updates on therapeutics and current COVID projections for the Fall.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Suzanne P. Clark will host this discussion with Bruce R. Guile, Ph.D. and The Honorable France A. Córdova, Ph.D. This segment will discuss research and development, economic security, the state of science funding, and how we can address these challenges moving forward.