Protocol correct, i call this meeting to order and well now have a roll call. Thank you president scott. Call to order 103 p. M. Roll call, president scott, present. Vice president hao is excused. [roll call] with that, we have quorum. Thank you. Well now move to item number 3. Agenda item 3 is general Public Comment. A opportunity for members of the public to comment on any matter within the board jurisdiction not on the agenda including request that the board place a matter on a future agenda. Well go over the instructions of remote Public Comment and Public Comment in person. Health Service Board welcomes public participation. There will be a opportunity for the general Public Comment to comment on the beginning of the meeting and opportunity to comment on each agenda item. In person Public Comment will be first then virtual Public Comment. In person you are welcome to approach the podium now. Each speaker are allowed 3 minutes to comment unless deemed the time limit is different in
Good afternoon. I welcome you to the Health Service board. August 10, 2023 meeting. I like you all to please join me in saying the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I guess to make the protocol correct, i call this meeting to order and well now have a roll call. Thank you president scott. Call to order 103 p. M. Roll call, president scott, present. Vice president hao is excused. [roll call] with that, we have quorum. Thank you. Well now move to item number 3. Agenda item 3 is general Public Comment. A opportunity for members of the public to comment on any matter within the board jurisdiction not on the agenda including request that the board place a matter on a future agenda. Well go over the instructions of remote Public Comment and Public Comment in person. Health Service Board welcomes public participation.
We are going to move on to our second panel. I am very excited for this actually. I have my good friend, janet woodcock, who is the principal fda commissioner and has been there for a number of years and helped reorganize and restructure offices. And is probably one of the best investors i know in the public and private sector. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do and make hard decisions. And continuing our brain traps, we have dr. Mark mcclellan who ran two federal agencies including serving as the fda commissioner area i am an eternal pragmatist so this is fun for me because you are going to spend time talking about how to fix agencies and organizations. During the pandemic, the biomedical innovation complex works pretty well. We got vaccines, had therapeutics, and it took time to happen and in record time. All of us are probably sitting here today because these things actually happened. We got them out community. The Public Health infrastru
We are going to move on to our second panel. Very excited. My good friend has been at the fda for a number of years to reach structure offices and one of the private sector whos been willing to do the hard work of others are unwilling to do and continuing, we have doctor mark who ran to federal agencies including serving as fda commissioner so we are going to spend time talking about organizations. We eventually got them out into the community. The Public Health infrastructure unfortunately operated largely inh un a silo, fragmented across localities, states, and the fed. And then as we think about agencies come with three primary agencies. We had the cdc, the fda and the nih, and they all functions very differently duringda the pandem. And so my hope was to spend sometime talk about how the fdas successes, it was not perfect but it did a pretty darn good job, and what we can learn from that thinking about how to fix this cdc and the nih Going Forward and make a a more robt Public Heal
Our second panel. I am very excited for this actually. I have my good friend, janet woodcock, who is the principal fda commissioner and has been there for a number of years and helped reorganize and restructure offices. And is probably one of the best investors i know in the public and private sector. She has always been willing to do the hard work that others are unwilling to do and make hard decisions. And continuing our brain traps, we have dr. Mark mcclellan who ran two federal agencies including serving as the fda commissioner area i am an eternal pragmatist so this is fun for me because you are going to spend time talking about how to fix agencies and organizations. During the pandemic, the biomedical innovation complex works pretty well. We got vaccines, had therapeutics, and it took time to happen and in record time. All of us are probably sitting here today because these things actually happened. We got them out community. The Public Health infrastructure unfortunately offerin