holly springs north carolina is one of the three in the country with the capable body to rapidly respond in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak. he's also the cochair of the alliance for bio security, the alliance works to promote the critical partnerships between the government industry and other stakeholders to advance and encourage the development of medical countermeasures. welcome. and finally, doctor stephen, the head of pediatric emergency medicine at the children's hospital of chicago, also a professor of pediatrics at northwestern university, school of medicine and serves as the chair of the american academy of pediatric disaster preparedness advisory council. with that i will turn to you and you can leave for up to ten minutes. >> thank you for the chance to speak today about these important issues. i'm the director of the center of the johns hopkins school of public health fopublic health fe or of medicine and public health. the center's mission is to protect people's health from epidemics and disasters and build resilient communities. i will provide a brief overview of areas

worked for many years to make us better prepared in the event of an outbreak and facilities in holly springs north carolina is both a promise and a partnership between your company and the federal government that is needed. we can flip a switch from the manufacturing for seasonal flu's to the manufacturing -- what are the lessons learned from this partnership and how can we improve the partnership? >> thank you for the question. i think the lessons we have learned is the partnership is a very good one. what has happened really in recent years is the commitment that has been made and for which secures companies have delivered delivered. the funding has not kept up. whereas there was a period of time and even though the funding for the pandemic flu was not part of the original legislation there were supplemental funds provided for the flu. i think the big lesson we have learned since that time is the funding has declined particularly since 2009. you start to question the commitment and the partnership forward with barda. sometimes we feel the funding that is dedicated or earmarked to preventin

whatthink one example of you mentioned is new and innovative platforms and the plant at holly springs is an example. this is not the more conventional which we are -- which we think people are more aware. da hasteraction with bar been strong. not only allowing us to advance the cell-based technology was recently through the partnership through efforts to improve the yield. in acan not only benefit pandemic setting, but actually potentially benefit in a seasonal setting. in benefit would not only be vaccines coming sooner to market, but the other promise we hope, technology that is invested by the government is that it offers the potential for providing a better match in the event of a mismatch. >> let me turn to you, innovations and -- in technology have drastically improved our bio surveillance and situational awareness capabilities to monitor and detect and identify the public health threat in as timely a fashion as possible. the federal government lags behind in its ability to leverage these technologies. how can we improve the federal programs to create more cohesive and real-time

holly springs is another great example and the other two facilities that when faced with a pandemic, we actually became visionary and we thought, what can we do to meet what we don't know? we went into a partnership with three different companies where we funded three quarters of the plant, but with a condition there was additional purpose and written into it that at any point, we could turn it in to what is in the nation's best interest. all three owners knew that and participated in it. it may be a model that we look at as we identify other things, but we have shown a degree of vision in the past. sen. hassan: i think that's very helpful and i think the example of what happened in puerto rico after maria really helps us focus on one of the next things we should be doing. i wanted to ask all of you and i think i start the question with you. i love what you said about preparedness and response being about people and time. obviously both demand resources. new hampshire uses its hospital preparedness funding to support a single statewide health care coalition that works to bring togeth

mcgregor, securis has worked to make us better prepared, the facilities in holly springs, north carolina is a promise and partnership between your company and the federal government. that is needed, we could flip a switch from the manufacturing of vaccines for flues to the manufacturing for pandemic flues. what are the lessons learned from this partnership, and how can we improve? >> thank you. the lessons we have learned thus far, the partnership has been a good one since the beginning. what has happened in recent years is the commitment made, for which its predecessor companies have delivered, the funding has not kept up though the spread is going forward. even though the funding for pandemic flu was not part of the original legislation there was emergency funds provided for flu. the lesson we have learned since that time is as the funding has declined to a low level since 2009, you start to question the commitment. is aimes we feel there funding dedicated or earmarked for pandemic flu and suggest seriousness as -- a into this particular threat going forward. communication is another l

holly. if you remember back in the spring of last year, the president disbanded two business counsels once heigured that it was marred in conflict and had become dysfunctional and he, in fact, disbanded the business council and what do we have now? 3% clip and we have dow hitting 25,000. we have labor participation rates going in the right direction. i think what he understood, excuse me, what he understood as an entrepreneur you have a commission that is marred in controversy has, in fact, become the dysfunctional cause of the controversy, you move on. >> you are acknowledging this was dysfunctional. >> acknowledging that we have become dysfunctional only because we were tied up in five lawsuits. and, so, if, in fact, your job is to figure out what are the vulnerabilities in a system in a decentralized system that if we address them we strengthen the integrity of our elections. you go on and you figure out a way to do that. he has basically said we're going to let homeland security take a hard look at that, work with the bipartisan national association of secretaries of state and fix and fix

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