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Its my honor to introduce our next speaker, colonel francis oconnor, m. D. , whos the professor and chair of military and emergency medicine. If you never been there actually worth a visit here francis took me around and its really a great place where we have training, medical training for those are going to be serving in our country and providing service to the men and women who serve in a country. Hes also a leading voice for exertional illness, sickle cell trait. Hes leading a major study and internist and really sicklecell trait even better and he certainly has been a mentor and a friend to john and me and others at the ncaa and trying to guide us to go in the right direction. So thank you for coming here today. Well, thank you. Its an absolute honor to be here to honor derek sheely. As a father of three sons im still shaken. Ms. Sheely, listening to your words and your passion, i will not forget. I will not forget. Im going to be moving away from cardiac and we will talk about som ....
If you dont have an environment thats attracting that, i dont know how you define it as sustainable. And so we have, mccs leveraged, i think, 5. 6 billion in private sector dollars into our projects over the course of our history, weve been in 37 countries with about 29 contracts, about 14 billion of development assistance, benefiting about 200 million beneficiaries. And the private sectors a huge piece of that. For example, in malawi, the state utility just entered a 20year power purchasing agreement with jcm capital to develop a commercialscale solar power plant, which is a great thing because 95 theres a lot of sun. Theres a lot of sun, and 95 of malawis power is hydro, and that has its own issues. Yeah, you can have a drought. Yeah. And then in terms of water, we signed an agreement with bechtel to do a National Master infrastructure plan. And so here were going to have a plan that prioritizes infrastructure projects, its goi ....
They yelled at him to get up. When he tried and they realized he could not they waited a few minutes then went to talk to him. Them a call the trainers over and he went back to practice. That is when i went to practice with trainers helping them off the field when he collapsed. Not sure what was told to you as far as him telling the coach the two coaches were aware he had a headache and took no precautions to ensure his safety. My thoughts are with the shealy family since august 2011. Were it not for the courage of brendan henderson, dereks teammate and author of the anonymous email we never would have learned what happened to our son. We still dont know everything that happened. We did learn derek went for medical aid at least four times over three days, four times and was told to get back onto the field every time. So dereks death was preventable. Preventable. In just six days, that preseason football practice, derek suffered so much brain trauma but he died. My beautiful, smart, 22y ....
One of the things of the Derek Sheely Foundation and the ncaa wanted to do was to find a way to do research that is going to be meaningfully impactful. So we have heard so much today about making datadriven decisions or informed decisionmaking, and that is really important. When we cannot make decisions from science, we try to get the best consensus as possible. But science is coming forward. The department of defense and the ncaa is coming together, as they started something called the grand alliance, and the grand alliance has two parts to it. One is something called mind matters. It is a grand challenge. How do we gather education and research to know that we can better inform the public of everyone about the safety of concussions . Or better put, to improve the culture of concussion safety. How do we get Young Athletes to report concussions and not try to hide th ....
The replay will be available on the as. Pn dereksheely. For those of you that may have come in late one of the things that this foundation wanted to do together was to try to find a way to do research that is going to be meaningful and impactful. Weve learned so much about doing datadriven and informed decisionmaking and that is really important and when we cant make decisions from science would try to make the best consensus possible. Science is coming forward. I mentioned earlier today that the ncaa has come together and started something called the grand alliance. The grand alliance has two parts to it. One is called mind matters. It is a grand challenge. With that how do we actually gather education and research to know that we can better inform the public and everybody about the safety and improve the culture of concussion safety. For example how do we get Young Athletes to report concussions and not try to hide them. How do ....