Expanding trade with africa. We may also hear more about the shortterm spending measure that republicans unveiled last night which would fund the federal government through february 16. Debate in the house likely tomorrow. Live house coverage is here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord god, architect of the universe and advocate for us all, thank you for giving us another day. When we rise from sleep activities of the day stir the mind, having a job to fulfill sets us into routine as a people with purpose. Daily work demonstrates responsibility and manifest our participation in your creative power. Mind and body together become engaged in productivity, success tenance or Service Beyond ourselves. Because human work bestows a special dignity upon a person and achieve a just society, we know how important it is for us to pray for the unemployed and those who work but still struggle
Good afternoon, one of the exciting things for the day and exciting moment and i have the honor of serving as the dean of school of Public Health, for all of you that are here for this exciting afternoon, im thrilled, welcome you. And also thrilled not to stand in the way of a great conversation, and so, im delighted to introduce our moderator, wellknown to all of you, im sure, michael, the chair of the department of Health Policy and management. Michael. Great. [applause] im michael and my job as moderator host today is basically to introduce chelsea and devi talk 20, 25 minutes and let you guys ask question and i sit and have a whole back and forth with them and i say now its time to go to reception and have some wine and thats my main job. Before i do my main job, i just want to say a couple of quick things, three quick things about this terrific book. First thing i want to say, as youll hear, im sure, this book contains four case studies of leading Global Health organizations aroun
Here are some of our featured programs coming up this weekend. Saturday night at 8 00 eastern, the state of the black world conference. Include melanie campbell, director of the black civic participation. Brockett, mayor of new york, new jersey. Get together and we have an agenda, you have to understand we also have to unite with other people. To win, we dont want to struggle for struggles sake. There are hundreds of thousands of people in our community that are in jail, they have been beat, we are not activists and revolutionaries because it is fun. My mother and father did not participate in the movement for to be praised, they did it because it was necessary. Followed by nebraska senator ben sasse on american values. It turns out the meaning of america is persuasion. The meaning of america is love. The meaning of america is holding a better product or trading a Better Service or persuading someone to marry you or persuading someone to join your church or synagogue. And then newt gin
Support glasstigueisle. We have steegle. We have a strong bill. John mccain, Maria Cantwell from washington state, its a well thoughtout glasssteeg lethat tsds were going to separate banking, were going to make boring banking more boring. If you want to take risks, you cant get access to the guaranteed accounts that we have over in the in the traditional banking system. Going to separate those two. Thats good for small banks, small businesses, its good for the economy overall, makes it safer. It also has i should add it has a lot about the Better Regulation of the nonbank Financial Institutions. So its really about fighting the next war where many of the risks lie with nonbank Financial Institutions. All i can say is the guy that was just elected president of the United States gave that one a two thumbs up. As i recall, my want to remember its in the public platform that this is an official Party Position to adopt doddfrank. If you want to ask me about modification, thats the place id
I am pleased to have dr. Collins back at the table. Welcome. Dr. Collins great to be back. Charlie we have talked about many things here. Tell me about these new things. Im constantly curious about where the new is. What is Precision Medicine . Dr. Collins it is the contrast to one sized fits all. We have been trying to make medicine precise over time with variable success but still it is the case when you go to the doctor and need intervention about your health care, you will get a generic recommendation based on evidence built on a generic person. You are not generic, nobody is. The idea Precision Medicine is to combine what we are learning with dizzying technologies about individual differences. , yourna, your genome lifestyle, your exercise pattern. In one placet data on a large cohort of americans and could find out what works for the individual that would be a good thing. That is one of the goals. Charlie what works for an individual. Dr. Collins if you were a healthy as most try