Good morning. Good morning everybody. Thank you so much for joining us and good morning to our viewers on cspan im sarah and president of the alliance for Health Policy, and really pleased to be here today with phil pearce and worldwide, and to introduce the admiral brett who is the assistant secretary for Health Opinion hes our 16th assistant secretary for health in the the United States department of health an Human Services and as i understand it its now two Year Anniversary in the role he serves as a secretarys Principal Public Health and science advisor, and hes responsible for coordinating efforts across the administration to fight americas Opioid Crisis. He also oversees the the office of the Surgeon General and u. S. Public Health Service Commission Core. His office leads many Critical National initiatives including a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic in america the physical afnght tbliens for americans, National Vaccine plan, with and across Agency Effort to improve th
Oversees the office of Surgeon General and u. S. Public Service Health commission core. And theres a historic new plan to end the hiv epidemic, the National Vaccines plan and across Agency Effort to improve the outcome of patients with Sickle Cell Disease. The doctor brings patient han handson to his work and leading americans to healthier lives. I want to thank again bill pierce and worldwide for partnering on this breakfast perspective on Health Policy and with that im pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Well, thank you very much and im going to stand up if thats okay with everyone. Good morning and its great to be here joining you. Again, it has been two years now as they say in d. C. , the days are long, but the years are short and i can certainly agree with that. Its abouten quite an amazing two years with a lot of accomplishments and understanding of what we need to do. If i can get my slides up, please. Well, when we get our slides up, thats okay. So i am the 16th assistan
In to look for survivors. The attack was timed to catch the morning rush hour in mogadishu. Many students had been heading to classes. Dozens were killed when the bomb exploded at a busy intersection in the somali capital. Attacks like this are not unusual here, but they are seldom so deadly. This man said the blast caught him as he was getting out of a minibus heading to work, his leg injured. Within minutes, emergency workers were at the scene. Somalia, plagued by violence for decades, is still wrestling with extremism. The countrys president quickly blamed the Islamist Militant Group al shabaab. Mohamed farmajo said their aim was to instil terror and to prevent the country from rebuilding. They will never succeed, he said. Al shabaab, linked to alqaeda, is still a threat in a country plagued by drought, feuding clans, and the aftermath of a terrible civil war. But the group has lost ground in recent years, targeted by American Drones and African Union troops. Todays devastating atta
Good afternoon and welcome to the may second, 2023 meeting of San Francisco board of supervisor. The you call the roll. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor chan. Present. Supervisor dorsey. Present. Introerz engardio. Present. Supervisor mandelman. Not present. Supervisor melgar. Present. Supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor preston. Present. Supervisor ronen. Present. Supervisor safai. Present. Supervisor stefani. Present. Supervisor walton. Present. Mr. President have you a quorum. Thank you. The San Francisco boards of supervisors acknowledging we are on the unseedan cest ral home land of the Ramaytush Ohlone original inhab tantss of the San Francisco peninsula. As indigenous sureds of the land and with traditions. Ramaytush ohlone have never seed, lost nor forgotten responsibilities as care tashgs and for all people hos reside in their traditional territory. As guests we benefit from living and working on their Traditional Home land. We acknowledgean cestors, elders of the recom
This year, and im not just talking about academy awards. Im talking about the progress that we re making after very challenging. Several years as we are bringing our Community Back after covid in the wake of anti asian hate, as we move things forward, and each of you again has been a part of that. I also want to say that San Francisco this year theres so much that we are doing to continue to anchor our status as the Asian American capital. And that includes the fact that this fall in november San Francisco is going to be the host city to apec, which is the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation leadership summit where we will be hosting literally heads of states from countries to our east, representing where our communities came from, and its going to be an incredible moment to showcase who we are. Um. I know today were going to be acknowledging a lot of folks and shortly were going to be hearing from our great mayor. Were going to be hearing from our city administrator. I want to take a m