Good evening, everybody. Im bradley graham, coowner of politics and prose along with my wife, lissa muscatine, and on behalf of her but here welcome your think you very much for coming. We are very y pleased to have pl richter with us here this evening. Paul and i crossed paths a lot when i was a journalist with the Washington Post covering the pentagon and he was reporting for the Los Angeles Times based in washington. Over several decades paul wrote about National Security and Foreign Policyy on both the pentagon and then the state department beat come and heal other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose of reporting in this city on National Security affairs and in his new book, the ambassadors, he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlighting the valuable roles played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out four in particular, ryan crocker, robe
Are thrilled to be here today we have a terrific lineup of speakers i will introduce momentarily the ceo of the vaccine alliance. First thank you to our colleagues who put this program together very carefully over many weeks and my partner catherine who we will hear from on the panel. This is a big year of replenishment you hear about that it is the second replenishment in the tenure of ceo data back to 2013 and in that. Reflecting on what has happened during his tenure it is remarkable. The amount of leadership and achievement and change we have seen over the course of this. A continuous process of reworking and improving the transition policy, we have Seen Movement of the institution to a concentrated discussion in advancing Health Security and promoting stockpiles to advance hpv vaccine and looking immunization across the entire lifespan. The institution has been graded at various points with very high marks in terms of gender equity and accountability to shape markets to bring pric
Where they have Good Public Health system and you can make critiques about some aspects but china was able to jump on it quickly. That wasnt true in 2014 when people appeared in west africa. There was no Health System and for three months we were unable to know if it was evil and it turned into an explosive epidemic. We have to have no communities left out. We have to think of this not just as a development or equity issue but a Global Health security issue. If you get sick in one of those communities, you are likely to have side effects or die or have that disease spread among you. For all those reasons it is a good community. 75 , 13 large fractional countries, we are going to get granular with a metric, try to take away at that but also a metric on how those 0 dose children get incorporated into a system and we want to build a resilient Health System for everybody. We have to be more differentiated and targeted. We have to go subnational. There is a reason communities are being reac
In washington over several decades he wrote about National Security and foreignpolicy on both the pentagon and state department and he held other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose in this cityy on the National Security affairs and in his new book he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlight the valuable role played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out for in particular, ryan crocker, and patterson and Chris Stevens. How significant officers these days folks work with our military and intelligence communities in such countries of afghanistan, iraq, serious, pakistan and libya to combat terrorism and manage the challenging situations. At a time when the u. S. Diplomatic corps is being downsized and disparaged, pauls book is a reminder of the vital contributions made by some of the state departments finest, the risks they sometimes had to take
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