HHS Announces Progress on Establishing the National Parkinson’s Project

Today, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced he would delegate the authority vested in the HHS under the Dr. Emmanuel Bilirakis and Honorable Jennifer Wexton National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act to the National Institutes of Health, with support from the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.

The law requires the agency to develop a national project to prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure Parkinson’s, to be known as the National Parkinson’s Project, including a requirement to establish and maintain an Advisory Council on Parkinson’s Research, Care, and Services. The council will be cochaired by Walter J. Koroshetz, MD, Director of NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and David Goldstein, MS, Associate Deputy Director for the Office of Science and Medicine for HHS’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.

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