Like youre ready. Thank you for your presentation and although my skill sets around this area are limited, i do understand it, so thank you for that and thank you to your staff for the work to get this done in two months. Er thank you. Since were thinking, i dont want to forget our legal team and our Legal Counsel has been exceptional, shes not here but i want to say that for the record because without here, i dont think you could have gotten here in two months. So, commissioners, i think all of us remember this very long journey, some of us, those who were here, commissioner bernal is excused for not remembering, four years ago when we started even with a whole series of presentations regarding the nature of i. T. And where it was and that we cant have an ehr without a more structured i. T. Department. With the patients that we have exhibited here waiting for that to come about and then the last several years also looking at partnerships and then finally an rfp which we thought would
The next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best place to have a meeting like this. I would suggest that the Natural History museum is the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects whatever but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last 300 years and preserving those objects in museums and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth so the records have collect and over the expansion of humans. In any given year, 400 phd is working behind the scenes. Last year, over 400 new species were described. At the same time, we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next year is a different 6 million so in a decade you might get as many as 50 Million People in this building. We live in Interesting Times with human population is growing. There are so many thi
Good afternoon, everyone. I am the director of the museum and staff director of the museum of Natural History. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the next pandemic. Hopefully its not the next pandemic right here. You might think that the Natural History museum is not the best placed at the meeting like this. This museum is the largest Natural Museum and has 145 million objects. I say that objects, whatever, but the reality is collecting the Natural World for the last frontiers in preserving preserving those objects in museums, and this is the place where we have what we know about planet earth, so the records have collect and over the years 300 years preserved at acceptable by research scientists. Last year over 400 species were described by scientists working the building. At the same time we welcome 6 million visitors. Most of those visitors are tourists which means the next years a different 6 million, the world plus largest collection, visit by the Worlds Largest is the audience,
Like youre ready. Thank you for your presentation and although my skill sets around this area are limited, i do understand it, so thank you for that and thank you to your staff for the work to get this done in two months. Er thank you. Since were thinking, i dont want to forget our legal team and our Legal Counsel has been exceptional, shes not here but i want to say that for the record because without here, i dont think you could have gotten here in two months. So, commissioners, i think all of us remember this very long journey, some of us, those who were here, commissioner bernal is excused for not remembering, four years ago when we started even with a whole series of presentations regarding the nature of i. T. And where it was and that we cant have an ehr without a more structured i. T. Department. With the patients that we have exhibited here waiting for that to come about and then the last several years also looking at partnerships and then finally an rfp which we thought would
This morning we have a hearing the preparedness and response capabilities we will hear from the assistant secretary for preparedness and response hhs and the director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response for health at cdc and dr. Gottlieb commissioner of the fda. This is the first of two hearings we plan to have on this topic. The second tuesday january 23. Senator murray and i each have been openingng statements or any opening remarks they may haverk after that we will introduce our panel and hear their testimony then each minute member has up to five minutes for any remarks or questions. First welcome to the chairman for giving me the opportunity to have this hearing that discusses the topic critical to National Security and has seen many years of bipartisan work in this committee and congress. We have developed strength in the name work with and other Nuclear Threats with the potential to jeopardize the health of all americans. This created a framework as we have