This webinar overviews of most comprehensive and current assessment of the challenges facing the nation’s most vital statistics. The inaugural report detailing the team’s findings and recommendations is available here: www.amstat.org/policy-and-adv.... The project team assessed the health of federal statistical agencies regarding (a) professional autonomy, (b) support from their parent agency, (c) sufficiency of their budget and staffing, (d) challenges and opportunities for data quality and innovation, and (e) engagement with data users.