Federal agencies are working in response to the coronaVirus Outbreak. Ken cuccinelli is acting deputy Homeland Security secretary, and dr. Robert kadlec is assistant health and Human Services secretary. They testified before a senate committee. Topics included supply chain management, sick pay support, and travel issues, specifically, how the coast guard is working with cruise lines. This is just over two hours. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to thank the witnesses first and foremost for your efforts as theyre related to the current, i guess weve got to call it a pandemic at this point in time, right . With covid19, the coronavirus. I guess its important to put things in perspective and i ask to submit my Opening Statement to the record. But i think we oftentimes fail to recognize and put this in proper perspective, so let me just rattle off a couple figures here. Ebola. Total cases worldwide ended up being less than 29,000. Now, i remember in the midst of that c
, there arethrilled advocates who care about the same thing i do. 30 years later, other Health Problems are facing the world, including pandemics and Infectious Diseases. I remember well when the ebola crisis of west africa gripped the American Public and we feared so much for ourselves and had concern for those suffering in west africa. Have made Great Strides in the last 30 years and i meet significant strides. Many children now are celebrating their fifth birthday that would not have celebrated that birthday years ago. Many children that are healthier from better food. Livingre families are above rather than below the poverty line. Although we have seen many beides that we should all proud of, there is still a lot of work to do. We have many challenges leading our world today. We are very, very fortunate to meet to have with us today a leader in the administration who is on the front lines of addressing these challenges so that we can have a conversation about combating Global Healt
,or cherry Pick Committee today senator casey for serving as Ranking Member at senator murrays request. They have both been real leaders on this subject. Was the first author of the pandemic and the preparedness act. How do you say that . It the all hazards preparedness act. Helps protectaw us from the full range of Public Health threats. Terrorism,asters, and the outbreak of Infectious Disease. 2013, senator burr and can senator casey led the bipartisan authorization of the pandemic and all hazards hacked act. Many contributed to this committee. Now the bill midst to be reauthorized for a second time. The second weg is have had this year. Last week we heard from the administration on recommendations in advance of the reauthorization of the act included from the assistant secretary for preparedness for once. The fda, and the cdc. It is critical we reauthorize the act before many of the provisions expire in september. I hope we can do this in a bipartisan way. I expect that has been the
Health and the university and also not in the way of a great conversation so im delighted to introduce our moderator well known to all of you im sure. Michael is the chair of the department of Health Policy and management. [applause] eye in the chair of the department of Health Policy and management and i want to welcome you to the book launch. My job as the moderator is to let them come up to ask questions while i have a back and forth and then i get up towards the end and say now it is time to go to the reception and have some wine, so that is my main job. Three quick things about this terrific book. This book contains four case studies of leading Global Health organizations around the world. Its to the literature and thats number one. Number two, in an interesting way and pretty unique it is and always case studies. It looks at how the organizations are governed and what the rules of the government are, how they are financed, how transparent they are and takes a look at all these is
Health and the university and also not in the way of a great conversation so im delighted to introduce our moderator well known to all of you im sure. Michael is the chair of the department of Health Policy and management. [applause] eye in the chair of the department of Health Policy and management and i want to welcome you to the book launch. My job as the moderator is to let them come up to ask questions while i have a back and forth and then i get up towards the end and say now it is time to go to the reception and have some wine, so that is my main job. Three quick things about this terrific book. This book contains four case studies of leading Global Health organizations around the world. Its to the literature and thats number one. Number two, in an interesting way and pretty unique it is and always case studies. It looks at how the organizations are governed and what the rules of the government are, how they are financed, how transparent they are and takes a look at all these is