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
So, good morning, everybody, thank you for coming. Im the executive director of the big Cities Health coalition. I want to start by saying a special thank you to representative roy allards office for securing this for us. While i know that the congresswoman couldnt be here today. I want to thank you her for being a true champion for Public Health and thank the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner to us as we started this event, planned this event. So, the big Cities Health coalition was founded in 2002 and is a forum for leaders of americas largest metropolitan Health Departments who have changed strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of their residents. We have nearly 30 we have 30 members whose Health Department serve 62 million or one in five americans and we luckily have two of our member jurisdictions here today. So you all have bios in front of you so im not going to take up too much time, but i want to introduc
Foerng, everybody. Thank you so much for coming. Im Chrissie Julian ob the executive director of big citys Health Coalition. I want to say a thank you to representative roy allards office for hosting us. While she captor be here today i want to thank her for being a champion of Public Health. I want to thank the American Academy of pediatrics for being such a great partner in planning the event. The big citys Health Coalition was founded in 2002 and is forum for leaders of americas largest metropolitan Health Departments to Exchange Strategies and jointly address issues to promote and protect the health and safety of their residents. We have nearly 30 we have 30 member jurisdictions whose Health Departments serve nearly 62 million, or one in five americans. And were lucky to have two member jurisdictions here today. You all have bioss in front of you. Im not taking you have too much time for me but i want to introduce the panel and then turn it over to them. So in the order which theyl
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 york city the chief med