THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, AND MEDICINE
Health and Medicine Division
Board on Health Sciences Policy and Board on Health Care Services
Committee on a Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Transparent System of Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution
*****
Congressional Briefings
Thursday, February 24, 2022 – 12:00 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
and
Thursday, April 28, 2022 – 2:00 p.m.
via Zoom
on
Realizing the Promise of Equity in the Organ Transplantation System
Each year, the individuals and organizations in the U.S. organ donation, procurement, allocation, and distribution system work together to provide transplants to many thousands of people, but thousands more die before getting a transplant due to the ongoing shortage of deceased donor organs and inequitable access to transplant waiting lists.
Requested by Congress in P.L. 116- 94, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, this new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine provides expert recommendations to improve fairness, equity, transparency, and cost-effectiveness in the donor organ system.
These briefings were for members of Congress and congressional staff only. The report was publicly released on February 25, 2022 and can be found, in its entirety, on the Web site of the National Academies Press.