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
Good morning. Thank you for joining us on cspan. I am really pleased to be here today. To introduce the admiral who is the assistant secretary for health. He is our 16th assistant secretary of health and the department of health and human services. It is his twoyear anniversary in the role. He serves as the secretary Principal Public Health and science advisor and is responsible for coordinating hhss efforts across the administration to fight americas opioid crisis. He also oversees the office of the Surgeon General in the u. S. Public Health Service commissioned corps. His office leads many Critical National initiatives, including a historic new plan to fight the epidemic in america, the National Vaccine plan, and eight cross agency plan for Sickle Cell Disease. Dr. Giroir brings the hands on perspective to his work. Lead america to healthier lives. I want to thank Africa Worldwide for partnering on this. With that, i am pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. Mr. Giroir thank you v
Years, along with china and others. Alix and today is the start of the fomc meeting, and hes been putting a lot of pressure on them. What are you guys doing for me and my growth . David it is fascinating that hes really accusing them of being a currency manipulator. Alix we have another headline crossing, saying that they a rate cut as a primary tool for stimulus, outlining what draghi said. What is surprising in that headline is that the rate cutting will be the primary one. David particularly because he mentioned Forward Guidance and the asset purchase program. Now the report is that when they do it, they are going to do it through the rate cuts. Alix to me, the question is how much lower do you want to go . You are already at a 40 basis points. How low do you go, and what does that mean for your tltro, the longterm Borrowing Program . David and ultimately, is that going to get them to do percent get them to 2 . They havent gotten close. Alix our other story is facebook, so staying w
Hundred refugees from a camp theyre seeking asylum in australia but they fear that they wont be safe at the alternative accommodation offered also coming up germanys president turns describes president steinmeyer will meet the leader of the social democrats march in shorts to persuade him to join a chance wrong americal and a Coalition Government will go live to berlins president ial palace. And emerson managua returns to zimbabwe as he prepares to be sworn in as the new president he promises full democracy and a boost for the faltering economy but will he deliver. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us police in immigration officials in papa new guinea have moved in to clear almost four hundred refugees from an abandoned immigration camp police have rejected allegations that force has been used now the campus on monis island which is part of papa new guinea its been used to house refugees hoping to get to australia but it was closed at the end of october after the Papa New