On March 18, 2021, AFAR grantee Anand Iyer, MD, MSPH testified before the the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging in a special hearing on “COVID-19 One Year Later: Addressing Health Care Needs for At-Risk Americans.”
Dr. Iyer shared his personal reflections on the past year of the COVID-19 pandemic as a pulmonologist and geriatrics-palliative care researcher in the Deep South, bearing witness to the challenges his patients face and discussing ways to improve vaccine access.
Dr. Iyer is a 2020 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging recipient. He is also an Assistant Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Watch the full hearing hereand download Dr. Iyer’s testimony here.
Learn more about important health disparity issues exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in AFAR’s two-part expert discussion report, “An Examination of Health Disparities in the Aging Population during COVID-19,” here.
