Is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. The white house has requested 1. 1 trillion for the department of health and Human Services. Of the budget request includes cuts in Public Health and Biomedical Research took hhs secretary tom price talked at a Senate Finance committee the twohour hearing begins with opening remarks by the chair of the committee, lauren hatch of utah. Of the committee will come to order. We will first listen to the senator from oregon who has to go to another committee hearing, so i welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the president s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 with specific attention to the department of health and Human Services. I want to thank secretary price for being here. These hearings are an annual event for the finance committee and secretary price, since this is your first time around i will warn you these hearings can be a little grueling. Of course, you already know that that the president and hhs are eager to w
February 2, 2016 a motion is an order that has been moved. Moved and seconded. Are there any correction to the minutes . Not seen any, were prepared to go. All those in favor please say aye. Opposed. The next item item 3 is the directors report. Good afternoon. I want to give you a quick update. The World Health Organization declared the International Health emergency on monday, february 1. The center for Disease Control has identified additional countries with a virus isnt issue and seeking testing. It also issued guidance to pregnant women regarding sexual transmission to the missed last week, the department has activated and Management Team to respond to Laboratory Testing and share information with medical providers and local communities and last week particularly invited somebody within organizations and certain individuals from Central America particularly to get input and part of that includes representative from the Mayan Community which have several dialects do we want to make
Report. Good afternoon. I want to give you a quick update. The World Health Organization declared the International Health emergency on monday, february 1. The center for Disease Control has identified additional countries with a virus isnt issue and seeking testing. It also issued guidance to pregnant women regarding sexual transmission to the missed last week, the department has activated and Management Team to respond to Laboratory Testing and share information with medical providers and local communities and last week particularly invited somebody within organizations and certain individuals from Central America particularly to get input and part of that includes representative from the Mayan Community which have several dialects do we want to make sure they are informed. So, we are collaborating with them and work closely with them with the communities in affected areas to make sure they have the information they need. We will also be working with travelers in those areas. As you
Second. Is there any further discussion or any corrections . If not, we are prepared for the vote, all of those in favor, of the minutes of september 16th, please say aye. Aye. All of those opposed . The minutes have been approved, for september 16th. Thank you commissioners, item 3, is the directors report. Good afternoon, commissioners, for the next several months, we are going to have a disease update for you and that will happen at the beginning of my report and today, dr. Ogona and cougar will be providing you with updates. Good afternoon, commissioners today i am going to give you a quick update on the ebola situation, today, dr. Hover will be joining me and also want to acknowledge other key people that are really working on the preparedness, dr. Baba who runs our Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch and also rachel kegan who is our communication director who has been working closely with us. And what i am going to do today is i am going to go very in the nex
Madam clerk, any other business before this committee . Theres no further business. Thank you were adjourned the Health Commission will come to order. Call the roll. Singer . Present. Taylormcghee. Present. Chow. Present. Chung. Present. Sanchez. Present. The approval of the minutes of the september second and september 16th meeting, 2014. We will take each one in order, the first one will be the minutes of september second, is there a motion for acceptance of those minutes . So moved. And is there a second . Are there any corrections to the minutes . Seeing no corrections, we will prepare for the vote. All of those in favor, say aye. Aye. All of those opposed, the september seconds minutes have been accepted. The minutes of september 16th are before you. Motion for acceptance. So moved. Is there a second . Second. Is there any further discussion or any corrections . If not, we are prepared for the vote, all of those in favor, of the minutes of september 16th, please say aye. Aye. All