For joining us here at csis. Were going to be hosting a fireside chat with dr rochelle walensky, the cdc director to really focus in on cdcs preparedness and the road ahead. Im Julie Gerberding and i serve as the ceo of the foundation for the National Institutes of health. Im also co chairing with my colleague, former congresswoman susan brooks, this csi commission on strengthening samara because health security. I also served as the cdc director from 2002 to 2009. So you can imagine this topic is pretty near to my heart. Im delighted to be hosting dr walensky here today. Shes been the cdc director since 2021 but i bet it feels a bit longer than that before her tenure and government, she was the chief of Infectious Diseases at the massachusetts general hospital, a professor at harvard and has an amazing track record of contributing not only to the events in the covid pandemic there, but also a long history of contributions to combating he is cochairing here on the future of cdc and cdc
Laboratory i think is really important. We also form a laboratory simple and has developed a Laboratory Task force. No test will leave the agency now without triple review. That is something that is now in place. In terms of the Core Public Health infrastructure, laboratory, data, and workforce. And what i really believe as i certainly would not have imagined in 2022 in addition to covid i would be dealing with a National Monkeypox challenge. If you could have predicted [ laughter] but what it really does say is we need a nimble workforce that knows how to deal with Public Health challenges, whatever they may be because we dont know what tomorrows are. So we have a workforce, a laboratory system, and a data system that is really strong and really elevated us to our core cap abilities. Whatever the subject matter is the challenge, we will be prepared to tackle it. It is a lot to do in the cdc and looking at it from a Headquarters Point of view, but i think our commission and many of us
His sport helps support cspan. Our nonprofit organization. Good afternoon, and thank you for joining us here at csis. Were going to be hosting a fireside chat with dr rochelle walensky, the cdc director to really focus in on cdcs preparedness and the road ahead. Im Julie Gerberding and i serve as the ceo of the foundation for the National Institutes of health. Im also co chairing with my colleague, former congresswoman susan brooks, this csi commission on strengthening samara because health security. I also served as the cdc director from 2002 to 2009. So you can imagine this topic is pretty near to my heart. Im delighted to be hosting dr walensky here today. Shes been the cdc director since 2021 but i bet it feels a bit longer than that before her tenure and government, she was the chief of Infectious Diseases at the massachusetts general hospital, a professor at harvard and has an amazing track record of contributing not only to the events in the covid pandemic there, but also a long
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