and the director of the hiv and aids group called true evolution. nice to have you here tonight. thank you for having me, it s an honor. like wise. thank you for your service. did you have any idea you and your fellow commissioners were about to be fired? no, it caught me by surprise. it s been a year we ve been serving. it was unclear, it was a shock to me. i know there were some members of the advisory ounce that will decided they did not want to serve under mr. trump and resigned earlier. i can imagine that may have been a source of friction. was the counsel meeting? were there policy disappoingred? yeah, we definitely continuing meeting. i searched as co-chair of the disparities committee making
happening. it was a shock to me. i know there were some members of the advisory counsel that decided they did not want to serve under mr. trump and resigned earlier. i can imagine that may have been a source of friction. was the counsel meeting? were there policy disagreements? was there any sort of c confrontati confrontation? yeah, we definitely continuing meeting and moving as business as usual. i searched as co-chair of the disparities committee making plans for initiatives and policy recommendations i wanted to put forth next year. like any counsel, we had differences of opinions, we have different ways of approaching public health and how we see hiv and aids policy. i would definitely say that our counsel were strong architects man of us were contributing authors of the national hiv/aids strategy, which strongly supported and included with the affordable care act. when you talk about fundamental differences, many of us on the counsel had fundamental