Health Futures

is a government relations, public policy and strategic development firm representing clients in the dynamic new world of predictive and personalized health care. We specialize in navigating the labyrinth of legislators, regulators, health care providers, patient advocates, third-party payers, and journalists who will ultimately determine if innovation succeeds or fails.

CRD Staff

Brent Jaquet, Senior Vice President

 

Brent Jaquet Image Brent Jaquet has expertise in science and research across federal agencies, education, healthcare, patient and professional advocacy, and health programs in the Department of Defense. Brent served as senior appropriations aide to Congressman C. W. Bill Young of Florida for seven years, during the congressman’s tenure as chairman of both the House Appropriations Committee and its Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. While working for the chairman, Brent advanced appropriations, authorization, regulatory and policy issues related to health, biomedical research, education, science, social services, universities, agriculture, bioterrorism preparedness and defense health programs. Prior to this, Brent was a senior official at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he managed communications, science transfer, professional health education, and legislative liaison activities. Brent also developed communications programs in health planning, professions and facilities at the Department of Health and Human Services. Brent recently completed a four-year appointment to the NIH Director’s Council of Public Representatives. He is a member of the Health Sciences Policy Liaisons of the Institute of Medicine and the Civilian Advisory Committee of the congressional-chartered Henry M. Jackson Foundation’s Center for Public-Private Partnership, which fosters collaboration between military and civilian medicine. Brent attended graduate studies in communications at the University of Maryland, College of Journalism following service in the U.S. Navy as a journalist. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina.