Sickle Cell Task Force

  Sickle Cell Task Force raises public awareness of sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait.  Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 52, directs the Texas Health and Human Services (HHSC) Executive Commissioner to establish and maintain a task force to raise awareness of sickle cell disease and sickle cell trait. The purpose of the Sickle Cell Task Force is to study and advise the department on implementing the recommendations made in the 2018 Sickle Cell Advisory Committee Report published by the Sickle Cell Advisory Committee or any other report the executive commissioner determines is appropriate.  Membership can be found at: sickle-cell-task-force-rosterMay2024.pdf (texas.gov) Call to order, roll call, and welcoming remarks. Melissa Frei-Jones convened the meeting and a quorum was present. Consideration of August 19, 2024, draft meeting minutes. The minutes were approved as presented. Membership update. The applications that were received in September