Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Doctor moss thank you for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Host a little bit about your work on the Vaccine Access center. Talk about your international aspect. Guest International Vaccine axes center we celebrated our tenth anniversary just last year and our main focus has been to ouincrease access to lifesaving vaccines throughout the world. Traditionally we have been focused on childhood vaccines particularly making sure that those acts as in africa and asia and that the vaccines are reaching the most Vulnerable Children but weve also been very involved in thinking about covid19 vaccine and particularly how such a vaccine might be distributed, how we will ensureow its safety and efficacy and how we will get equitable distribution of a vaccine around the world. Host with that in mind how does that apply to the current efforts going on with coronavirus . Guest there are a number of initiatives both at National Lev
Thank you for joining us. Guest thank you for having me. Host a little bit about your work at the Vaccine Access center, talk about that and in the international aspect. Guest yes, so the international Vaccine Access doctor william moss the executive director of the international Vaccine Access center and a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Doctor moss thank you for joining us today. A little bit of your work at the Vaccine Access center with the international aspecth. We celebrated our tenth anniversary in the last year and the main focus is to increase access to lifesaving vaccines. Traditionally focused on childhood vaccines particularly to make sure there is access in africa and asia and they are reaching the most vulnerable. But also we have been very involved in thinking about covid19cu Covid Vaccine and how we ensure the safety and efficacy with equitable distribution around thehe world. Host how does that apply to the current efforts with coronavirus
C. Mcadoo morning of there i am joanne myers is like to thank you all for beginning your morning with us. We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan and sesnon will tv to this program. Dr. Khan will be discussing his look the next pandemic. The former director of the office of Public Health and response at the centers for Disease Control prevention dr. Khan has been on the frontlines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases waging wars against rampant violent contagion. In fact theres never been a time when humans were not a good by microbes. During his time as a selfdescribed disease detective our speakers had his own brushes with viruses Infectious Diseases and s contagion. For example in 1995 he worked among red cross workers in zaire during the first of ebolala cris but after 9 11 he was called to washington to prevent the spread event that anthrax in the Senate Office building in 2
We dont do that in america. I know. Because theres a huge distance between that kind of invasion and the stuff im talking about, which is stuff that we can control. We can control muni. We can arguably vote bart. Theres a huge difference between monitoring people on their cell phones that we do not do and will not accept in our culture and what you are recommending. Can you bring that together quickly now, sir. I would say the key issue is for us to minimize, to the extent possible, nonessential travel, including locally and we dont have a campaign to do that right now. Becausbecause what happens is tt this is so massive, so massive, that a lot of the enforcement happens from the peer pressure and they see what other people are doing. So at this moment, even for this order, we dont have a Massive Campaign yet to really, really enforce how important it is to not be out. As the chief Health Official of this town, who is not dr. Colfax, how are you relaying that to the mayor, to other off
Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee present. All members are present. President yee thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. President yee so on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Thank you. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee thank you. I do want to take this opportunity to share with the public that given the stayhome order issued yesterday by the mayor to reduce the spread of covid19, the board of supervisors will continue to meet and deliberate on essential action items during this time