Cspan book tv to this program. The next pandemic. As a former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the center for Disease Control prevention, doctor kahn has been on the frontlin front line to pe deadliest diseases. Throughout history, humans have been fighting diseases winning deadly neverending wars against rampant contagions. In fact, theres never been a time when humans were not affected with microbes and against them. During the time as a disease detective our speaker has had his ow own brush and own brushi, Infectious Diseases and contagions. For example, in 1995, working with red cross workers for the first ebola crisis and after 9 11, he was called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax to the Senate Office building. And in 2003 he was called to hong kong. But these are just some of the stories doctor khan chronicles in the next pandemic carried as an epidemic intelligence officer, a disease hunter if you go, his missions for two decades
Good morning, everyone, im joanne meyers. We are delighted to welcome dr. Ali khan. Dr. Khan will be discussing his book the next pandemic. As former director of the office of Public Health preparedness and response at the centers for Disease Control and prevention dr. Khan has been on the front lines in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first one to have done so. Throughout history humans have been fighting diseases, deadly wars against contagions and there has never been a time where humans were not affects with microbes and fought against him. During khans time our speaker has had with contagions. He worked among red cross for the first ebola crisis. After 911 called to washington to prevent the spread of anthrax in the Senate Office building. A disease hunter, if you will, mission was to read the governments efforts to prepare public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. He also writes that not all epidemics and pandemics ar
They also cautioned against the misinformation on social media regarding the coronavirus. This house, science, space and Technology Hearing meeting is out is about one hour and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and become to get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach
Covid19 is not the first pandemic we will ever deal with and certainly will not be the last one, but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet to get ahead of this, address it, ad, you know, come up with remedy for it. If we think about the basis of Global Health security, it is a threepronged approach containment, mitigation, and then treatment. This is the third hearing that i am chairing on this subject. The first focused on the containment strategy. That was the first hearing that congress held. The conclusion of that was the initial strategy of trying to contain this disease with travel bands, etc. , was likely not going to be successful. Very difficult, and i think what china did was ambitious. About us some time that most of us in the Public Health world recognize that we would likely see in community cases, it would be difficult to stop the spread of this disease. The second hearing we had was on mitigation, largely looking at testing, this wa
This hearing will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Good morning and welcome to the hearing on coronavirus, understanding the spread of the Infectious Disease and mobilizing Innovative Solutions. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i will introduce the witnesses. Again, thank you for being here. Obviously this is an incredibly timely process. Covid19 is not the first pandemic we are ever going to deal with and certainly not the last one but it is incredibly important that we come together as a nation and as a planet and get ahead of this and address it and come up with treatment for it. If we think about Global Health security to threepronged approach. Containment, mitigation, and treatment. This is the third hearing that im chairing on the subject and the hearing is focused on the containment. It was the first hearing the congress held. The conc