Finishing up here at the National Press club. You can see this on our website cspan. Org. Going to a conversation with World Bank President jim yong kim. Hell be talking about preventing the next pandemic. This is happening at center for strategic and International Studies here in washington. Should start in just a moment. Good morning and welcome to csis. Welcome to those who are joining us online and those who are coming in via cspan and else where. Its an honor to be here today to welcome dr. Jim yong kim president of the world bank to speak on how to better prepare ourselves for future out breaks in this era of the new normal of recurrent out bakreaks weve se. Im the Senior Vice President here at csis. Just a few minutes of opening remarks. Dr. Kim has been president of the bank since 2012. And in that time has used his leadership quite strategically to bring about many changes internally and externally. Hes positioned the bank to be a lead player, a key player in pandemics, in sup
Speaking from my new, almost seven months perch as a federal official, i want to share that as a physician and Public Health practitioner, im speaking to you from both of those heads knowing my words are those of a person will always be herself as a doctor first. People who only know me as someone who works in government asked me, have you ever been a real doctor . I assure you, from the way in which i approach my work, that i still am. So know that i mean it and understand when i say i really appreciate this meeting and your work because what you do is so much closer to the people, the community, and the patients than i am at this point in my career. For the administration, so much of the work and progress of the past several years has been rooted in the belief passed down from generation to generation that we can continue to strive toward equity. And that we can Work Together to level the Playing Field for all americans. That we can give all of our sons and daughters, our families, t
Wrap things up. We are finished so i want to thank our distinguished panel for i think a superb outline of the challenges we face and certainly some good suggestions on what to do about it. I couldnt help but think it took us about 200 years of precolonial experience before we became a republic and ultimately a democracy. It takes a long time to really get to that point. 216 years ago, i guess, is when turkey as a nation started that climb, at the end of the ottoman empire. You had the big movements of what they call social reform. We will leave the tail end of this event to go live to a discussion on how the zika virus is affecting Womens Health care in the u. S. Of to by the center for American Progress just getting underway. In recent months, we have seen the zika transmission escalated in parts of the developing world and here in the United States. According to the centers for Disease Control and prevention, the mosquitoborne virus has infected over 6000 people in the and territori
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