Listen: Inside Government Oversight of COVID-19

Listen: Inside Government Oversight of COVID-19

Season: 2
| Episode: 31
The Government Accountability Office has provided oversight over COVID-19 amid the challenges the pandemic has created.
Mary Denigan-Macauley, Director of Health Care, Government Accountability Office

COVID-19 has brought new challenges, including the direct public health response as well as secondary shakeups across the government, medical and socioeconomic landscapes. To keep the pandemic response from devolving, the Government Accountability Office has been providing oversight and working with agencies to ensure that COVID-19 and other public health challenges are handled as properly as possible. One of the agency's health care directors, Mary Denigan-Macauley discusses what it's like to oversee federal health activities during a pandemic and how she's overcoming associated challenges.