EPPC’s HHS Accountability Project is dedicated to monitoring the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and holding it accountable to its mission: furthering the health and well-being of all Americans. HHS is the largest federal agency by budget, and its programs and activities directly touch more lives than any other government bureaucracy. But the proper pursuit of its mission depends on an authentic understanding of the human person and a sound understanding of the legal protections to which Americans are entitled. The HHS Accountability Project’s goals include:
- Ensuring human beings are recognized as worthy of protection from conception until natural death regardless of disability, age, or circumstances of birth.
- Ensuring abortion and assisted suicide are never accepted or recognized as health care.
- Preventing ideology from distorting science on questions of human identity and human flourishing.
- Respecting conscience and religious freedom of health and human services providers and beneficiaries alike.
EPPC Senior Fellow Roger Severino directs the HHS Accountability Project. Mr. Severino is a national authority on civil rights, conscience and religious freedom, the administrative state, and information privacy, particularly as applied to health-care law and policy.
Before joining EPPC, Mr. Severino was the Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he led a team of over 250 staff enforcing our nation’s civil rights, conscience and religious freedom, and health information privacy laws. He served from 2017 to 2020 and was the longest serving OCR Director in the past three decades.
EPPC Fellow David Gortler and EPPC Policy Analyst Rachel N. Morrison also serve in the HHS Accountability Project.
