2001 panel presentation for the 23rd Annual Minority Health ConferencePanel discussion on “Public Health in the New Administration: Impact on the Future”. Moderator Sarah Strunk. Panelists: Bill Jenkins, PhD, Supervisory Epidemiologist, National Center for HIV, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Marian Johnson-Thompson, PhD, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences; Dennis McBride, MD, MPH, State Health Director, Division of Public Health, Raleigh, NC; Jacqueline Resnick, Director, Pan-University Program for Multi-Disciplinary Proposal Development, Proposal Development Initiative, Office of Graduate Studies and Research, UNC at Chapel Hill; Joel Schwartz, PhD, Adjunct Professor, University Professor of Distinguished Teaching, Department of Public Policy Analysis, UNC at Chapel Hill; Janet Southerland, DSS, MPH, PhD, Chair, Hospital Dentistry, Director, General Rotation Practice, School of Dentistry, UNC at Chapel Hill. (From the 23rd Annual UNC School of Public Health Minority Health Conference, February 16, 2001. UNC William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education.)