And spoke at the center for strategic and International Studies conference about defense cooperation between the United States and south korea. This is about an hour. Good morning, thank you all for coming to your event, u. S. South koreas defense acquisition and security cooperation. A a pleasure for s pleasure for csis to host of this. I would like to thank our partners, the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and trade in Aerospace Industries for cohosting. Im lisa, i have the honor of introducing are for speakers introducing our first speakers today. Before i do that, i would like to mention a word about safety. We have a very secure building and do not expect emergencies to arise. If something does occur, please exit the building using the staircases and emergency exits. Please walk toward the National Geographic building on m street behind csis. I will give you further instructions, if necessary. Now, i would like to introduce , dr. Johnspeaker hamre, who will give opening r
To recognize the chairman of the committee for a statement. Thank you senator burr and casey and members of the committee. Fornt to thank senator burr chairing the hearing today, senator casey for serving as Ranking Member and senator at senator murrays request. Leaders oneen real this subject. Sen. Burr the original author of the first passage of the pandemic and all hazards preparedness act. I will call the all hazards preparedness act. In 2006. The law helps protect us from the full range of Public Health threats from natural disasters to bioterror attacks. Burr and caseyrs led the bipartisan authorization of the pandemic and all hazards act. Any members contributed at the time. Some of whom are still on the committee including bennett and isaacson, warring, hatch and others. Now the bill is to reauthorize for a second time. Todays hearing is the second we have had this year. Last week we heard from the administration on recommendations of advancing the reauthorization of the act in
Been exposed to live anthrax apples are you confident as to whether or not we would have had proper vaccines and therapeutics in place to save lives . Am confident that we do. Are you confident, doctor hassell . Okay. Are you confident that we have enough proper vaccines and therapeutics in place to save lives . I do not have sufficient information to answer that question. Nor do i. Would that be for the workers that are being exposed or how about with respect to the Committee Building on the congressmans questions about one of these individuals if you have been exposed to presented to any our . Can you explain to me what your view is if you have one . Thank you for that question. The Strategic National stockpile did provide vaccine for the states that have workers while receiving prophylaxis. I am confident we have the ability to do it the vast supply of countermeasures for anthrax,anthrax, the nature of the events you might be trying to prepare for always determines whether you have
That means the facility, as an appropriate facility has Good Laboratory practice and appropriate rules. It includes the fbi review of personnel reliability on all of those who we will be using it includes a set of requirements elevate biosafety and security inventory management, Access Control and it includes a process and ability to detect and respond including the notification of jurisdictions that have these facilities including but we did with the anthrax response being able to go in investigate, identify whether people are at risk and whether they are and this involves private sector as well as Public Sector institutions; is that correct . Thats correct. Where you find the best practices going from . Doctor hassell was talking about going to the private sector. Where are we finding the best practices today . Private or Public Sector . It is a combination of both. We will look at the private sector. That often does not happen as a 1st reaction. The department of defense my centers
It is normal for cdc to do investigative work on its own before it would refer a matter to us and that actually helps us because the evidence is more developed when he receive it. So you think 60 days is reasonable before youre notified to do your investigation . Yes. Okay. And as a part of that theyre doing their investigations and so forth. But dont you think its kind of interesting that you got notified yesterday . Do you think that our hearing might have sped that time up a little bit . I have no information about that. But when you filed your testimony, you said to date oig has not received a referral for any more recent potential violations involving dugway which was in reference to the 2008 and 2010 incidents. Thats right. We submitted the testimony on friday. At that time we had not received it. I would say my opinion is that yor sight by this committee is a very effective way at spurring attention to this matter within the government. Just wish we didnt have to do it so often.