Careening in this room for us and i know that the congresswoman couldnt be here today, i want to thank her for being a true champion for Public Health. Also want to thank the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner to us as we start this event. So, Big Cities Health Coalition was founded i was a former leaders for Health Departments to Exchange Strategies and address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the residents. There we have of pediatrics will do a Measles Outbreak one oh one and why immunization is so important. The American Academy of pediatrics is a nonprofit professional organization with more than 67000 pediatricians we are dedicated to the health and safety and wellbeing of children and adolescents and young adults we publish recommended elimination schedules with the cdc American Academy physicians and gynecologist so lets go back to the history of measles in 1953 it was licensed in a 1968 the vaccine began to be over the country it
Good morning everybody thank you for coming. The executive director of the bigcity Health Coalition want to say a special thank you to Representative Office for securing the space for us and while i know the congresswoman could not be here today i want to thank her for being a true champion for Public Health also the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner as we planned this event. The Health Coalition started in 2002 is a forum for leaders of the largest metropolitan Health Department for strategies to jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of the residents we have those jurisdictions whose Health Department serves nearly 62 million or one out of five americans well have two jurisdictions here today. You have bios in front of you i will not take up time i want to introduce the panel that i will turn it over to them. The order in which they are presenting doctor kraft is the immediate precedent of aat the commissioner of health in new
With air Quality Management. She might be able to, gabriela. So part of the concern from the neighbors is the method they are going to abate the fumes that are going to be. So with the air quality staff member, the difference between what they are providing and what the bay area air quality actually identifies as being an abatement system is essentially the method. One method that the air quality Staff Members identify and give points for abating is one where they are doing thermal they break the parols down to essentially water. Whereas their method the vortex they are referring to and that they have already is a different method where they are using speed to break down the particles. But in that case, the barrier air quality is saying they do not identify that as being an abatement so no points are given to them if that makes sense. Interesting. Okay. So i dont see anything in front of us as a dr request as extraordinary. Its a business thats going into a urban area near schools. And
Jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. Speakers shall address remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. Commissioners are not to enter into debate or discussion with the speaker. Lack every response does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during Public Comment. Thank you very much, madam secretary. At this time we will ask for general Public Comment. Any member of the public wishes to give Public Comment, please approach the podium. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 3 approval of the comments. Discussion and possible action to approve meeting minutes. Minutes from regular meeting on september 25, 2019. Thank you very much, madam secretary. At this item approval of the minutes we will ask for Public Comment. Any member of the public wishes to give Public Comment, please approach the podium. At this point Public Comment is closed. Commissioners. Thank you very familiar. Very th
And discussions just like the one tonight, and even tonight we have four events. So its just really fun. So [applause] thank you. And thank you, cspan, for filming this. Happiness is the best medicine, yet americans will spend 3 billion on medicine and health care this year. A sum thats large enough of to send every family of four a check for 40,000 for their care. And we all know that happiness is not a big ticket item. Our guest tonight, dr. Kelli harding, will discuss this. She is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and a diplomat to the american board of psychiatric and neurology. Dr. Hardings work in the emergency room at the New York Presbyterian Hospital and as the daughter of a 91yearold, i spend a lot of time there, so i have a lot of admiration. She has appeared on today, good morning america, npr, New York Times and the u. S. News and world report. Dr. Harding is here as the author of the rabbit effect. Yea. [applause] starting with the