David Introcaso is currently VP of Regulatory Policy at Strategic Health Care in Washington, DC. David moved to Washington, D.C. in the 1990s to work at DC General Hospital. Since then has served as the Evaluation Officer at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), as a Public Health Analyst in the DHHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and as Healthcare Policy Adviser for the House Majority Leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer. He has also worked as a consultant to numerous clients from the American Public Health Association to UnitedHealth Group. This recent work is reflected in over 50 Department of Health and Human Services comment letters and published essays over the past two years. David has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago, Georgetown and George Washington University. Among other awards David was a W. K. Kellogg Foundation National Leadership Fellow (1993-1996). David earned his BS, MA and Ph.D. degrees at Rutgers and Arizona State. Email: dmintr [at] gmail.com
by David Introcaso Arguably the greatest global health policy failure has been the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) refusal to promulgate any regulations to first mitigate and then eliminate the healthcare industry’s significant carbon footprint. With US healthcare spending projected to equal $4.9 trillion this year, HHS is effectively responsible for regulating…
by David Introcaso In late March the United Nations adopted a landmark resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice “on the obligations of States in respect of climate change.” Specifically, the resolution seeks an opinion regarding legal consequences under international law states may face for acts or omissions that have caused…
by David M. Introcaso In late January the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee released a draft discussion of its COVID-prompted public health bill titled, “Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats, and Pandemics Act” (PREVENT Pandemics Act). Patty Murray, HELP Committee Chairwoman and Washington State senator, defined…
by David M. Introcaso Tragically, President Biden’s 21-page “Tackling the Climate Crisis” Executive Order signed January 27th failed to make any effort to address the increasingly dire health effects caused by the climate crisis. This may seem surprising since, for example, just one-month earlier Lancet published its fifth, well publicized and highly regarded annual report, “Countdown…
by David Introcaso Two weeks ago the 9th US Circuit Court heard oral arguments in the Juliana v. the US case filed in 2015 by 21 children who petitioned the federal court to require the government to protect their Constitutional rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by addressing the climate crisis. In…
by David M. Introcaso Over the past several months the White House has taken several significant steps to undermine our nation’s ability to mitigate climate change or global warming. While these policies are being rolled out the increasingly dramatic effects of anthropogenic climate change are taking place before our eyes. Because there has always been…