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Vaccine development and efforts to address disparities in minority communities. This is abouttwo hours 45 minutes. This hearing will come to order. First i would like to welcome our witness, doctor robert redfield, director of the center for Disease Control and prevention and we thank you for being here this morning. Doctor redfield, to discuss the cdc and ongoing response to covid19. I also want to welcome the subcommittee members, Ranking Member congressman thomas paul andour full Committee Chair. I want to thank you to subcommittee members who are here in person as well as subcommittee members who are participating by secure video teleconference. Before i moved to my Opening Statements and because this is our first labor hhs and Education Appropriations Committee hearing with some members participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work and in order to benefit those members and the public. This hearing room has been configured to main
One is something that we can all benefit from. When alex started writing this book, im sure, he wasnt exactly expecting it to be released in the midst of a pandemic. However, in my view, this topic could not be more relevant especially these days when so many of us are forced to have that day one mentality. So to help us kick off, alex, id love to ask you what you found to be so important about this topic that you wanted to focus your sights on really going deep, interviewing some of the leading ceos and also workers at all levels of Tech Companies. How does it fit into your overall journey. Yeah. So im a reporter here in silicon valley, and i cover the tech giants. And im a reporter that comes in with a slightly different background. Instead of going the journalism school, i studied Industrial Labor relations. And sort of put that in the back of i my mind, but really ive always focused on culture, organizational behavior, how companies are led, how work is structured. You know, thats
The u. S. Good morning, my name is nancy lindborg. I am the president and ceo here at the us institute of peace im delighted to welcome you here for a very important conversation to prevent violence in a fragile world. Our speakers here today i want to extend a special welcome to mark green we are honored to have them here today and a very warm welcome to Madeleine Albright whos been a fierce champion of democracy for years and a good friend. Many thanks to the National Endowment for democracy that makes todays event possible with your generous support and our good friends and partners in the george w. Bush institute. Its wonderful to have them cohost the event with us today. Usip was founded thirtyfive years ago, funded by congress nonpartisan National Institute dedicated to the notion that peace is practical and possible. We firmly believe todays complex foreignpolicy challenges require partnership across the aisle. We were just talking about this. Last Year Congress asked us to host
Dive into our witness testimony as well. Since 1999 more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and the production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated americans staggering death rate. In 2017 more than 70,000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of death in the United States. Of those 60 involved prescription opioids such as fentanyl. American. Up better against the Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older abuse to opioids. 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americans die each day from an opioid overdose. We know the untimely death from widespread abuse of prescription and nonprescription opioids but they know from our familys neighbors and friends of the Opioid Crisis is not over. We must continue contending with this crisis. That being said we have made Great Strides in the past three years to help combat this crippling ep