{"id":1116680,"date":"2022-04-13T11:42:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1116680"},"modified":"2022-04-14T11:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:42:04","slug":"lakey-appointed-to-national-commission-on-public-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1116680","title":{"rendered":"Lakey appointed to national commission on public health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/image004-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1116681\" \/>AUSTIN &#8212; Dr. David Lakey, the University of Texas System\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief medical officer and vice chancellor for health affairs, has been appointed to a new non-partisan commission charged with reimagining a stronger health care system at every level of government.  That&#8217;s according to a UT System news release. Lakey is also a professor of medicine at UT Health Science Center at Tyler. According to the release, the Commonwealth Fund \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a private foundation that has been dedicated to improving the U.S. health infrastructure since 1918 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c recently created the Commission on a National Public Health System in response to the challenges faced by the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decentralized health care system during the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials say Lakey will work with others to streamline and improve U.S. health care. By early summer 2022, the commission is expected to recommend key strategies in the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; Dr. David Lakey, the University of Texas System\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief medical officer and vice chancellor for health affairs, has been appointed to a new non-partisan commission charged with reimagining a stronger health care system at every level of government. That&#8217;s according to a UT System news release. Lakey is also a professor of medicine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1116680\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lakey appointed to national commission on public health<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1116684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/image004-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Lakey appointed to national commission on public health","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 00:54:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/04\/image004-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Lakey appointed to national commission on public health","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116682,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116680\/revisions\/1116682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}