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My job is assistant director for history and culture at the Smithsonians National museum of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, the historians and curators at the museum who are in charge of producing the exhibitions, and the books and a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects, but i have a real interest in photography, and we have also 500,000 photographs in the National Museums Archive Center and ive been working very hard in the year that ive been at this museum. I have a 30year career at the smithsonian and i just joined the museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me at the Archive Center. So you wrote an article about the collection. Tell us why you wrote this article . A virtual tour of history . Thanks, richard. We have a great magazine. American indian magazine that is a members magazine for our museum and have become more and more familiar with it offer time so when i was asked for t
Curator sarah levit shows us what architecture can reveal about how the mentally ill were cared for over time. We decided to do this exhibition for many reasons, one of which, i think its a real important moment to be talking about the role of the federal government in providing Public Health and providing healthcare for the mentally ill and what that role has been over the time. I think it is an interesting time to talk about that. Also, right now, at st. Elizabeths in d. C. , its really a time where theyre looking to develop the land. Its now split into two halves, the federal government owns half of it and it will become the department of Homeland Security, which is something thats happening right now and also development is really starting on the east campus, which is owned by the city of washington, d. C. Its a really interesting time to Start Talking about that since theyre really moving forward and starting that development process. This is a great hall as we call it in the old
I should say, that have been the hit by scandal. Well, so you know, the, an international, actually an astute is an International Organization kind of like to view and show your 36. 00 signatories not a single g 7 signatory, but our mission is to discover, develop and deliver safe, affordable and effective vaccines for Global Health. And actually what we did during this endemic is to say, were not going to compete, have our own back seen. It makes kind of companies uncomfortable when we tell them its, were working on our own vaccine to see what we decided was to support companies which every company came to us for assistance, helping them with assays with animal studies, with Clinical Trials, with regulatory pathways. Anything that we needed to do in order to advance a vaccine as quickly as possible. So in a sense, if the world wins that i. B. I. Wins, and that was our strategy. But being advocates of free market, Big Pharmaceutical Companies will say, the and your or your a strategy f
Have our own back seen. It makes kind of companies uncomfortable when we tell them its. Were working on our own vaccine to see what wed decided was to support companies which every company came to us for assistance, helping them with assays with Animal Studies with clinical trials, with regulatory pathways. Anything that we needed to do in order to advance a vaccine as quickly as possible. So in a sense, if the world wins that i. B. I. Wins, and that was our strategy, that being advocates of free market, Big Pharmaceutical Companies will say, and your, or your a strategy failed it is pfizer astra zeneca, those big multinationals that create the vaccines no, into your a un mandated vaccine institute. So actually, you know, our Vaccines Institute is, is funded really by, you know, the governments of korea, sweden, india, and finland and the Gates Foundation. The Welcome Trust. And our goal is really to get vaccines over the finish line. I mean, we dont think about it that vaccine is bein