so, ashish, let me start with you. you recently co-authored the report "will ebola change the game: ten essential reforms before the next pandemic." well, here we are with the next pandemic. so, what were those key lessons, and how can they inform our zika strategy? >> great. well, thank you, lindsay, and thank you, all of you for being here. and i am excited to be here. obviously, not ideal under these circumstances of facing another pandemic. when we started that work of that panel about a year ago, about 14 months ago, we thought, well, this is not just about ebola, it's about preparing us for the next one. i don't think any of us expected that the next one was going to be 14 months later. if you look at the global response to ebola, the big lesson in my mind is that we failed miserably to do what we had all agreed we would do. we had a plan in place for responding to pandemics like ebola, and it just, it didn't work. almost no part of it worked. the national systems that were supposed to have kind of disease survei

that builds the trust that i think ashish was talking about as well.so i think prevention is critical, not looking at individual outbreaks sort of one at a time. all right, we've done that, that's done, let's move to the next one. i think it's important for us to remember. >> why don't we take two questions and have the panelists respond. go ahead. say your name and organization. >> my name is alisa waxman. i work in the ebola unit. i'm working on the lessons learned for coordination for the ebola recovery efforts. and one thing that's really important to me and my team is to have the lessons that we learned actually influence policy and how we structure ourselves around responses in the future. what would be some key things to look at or ways to draft these recommendations so that they don't just kind of get shelved but can be used to influence things a the a higher level? >> great,ty. >> i see a couple of other hands. >> i saw a couple of hands. >> i'm with act associates. i have a quick question about diplomacy and ensuring that funding is inclusive

i think ashish laid it out comprehensively and we shouldn't underestimate the scale of challenge youarticulated there. what we're really talking about is certainly in the case of west africa and the ebola context, the part of the world where just about every institution is weak. public institutions are weak, private institutions. it's obviously a place with stronger institutions, stronger governments, stronger leadership. and so obviously the two viruss are different, and represent themselves in different ways. so i think we have a better shot in the current context than in the context of ebola. but partnerships, from my perspective, you know, when we look at an effort to mobilize all the actors in a particular geography or a market to respond to a public health challenge rein we tend to look at this now through the lens of what we call the total market approach, we try and understand where the failing exists in each marketplace. it could be in terms of government policy, it could be in terms of the health sector, it could be in terms of civil society actors within the health sector.

i think ashish laid it out copper handsomely.e shouldn't underestimate the scale of the challenge that you articulated. what we're talking about in the case of west africa is the part of the world where every institution is weak. public institutions are weak, private ossetians, civil society, tremendous strain on every answer to the society. i think the fact that we're talking about the zika by currents in the western how mr. makes it somewhat different. obviously it's a place with stronger institutions and stronger leadership. obviously, the two viruses are different. and represent themselves in different ways. i think we have a better shot in the current context than the context of ebola. but partnerships -- from my perspective, when we look at an effort to mobilize all the actors in a particular geography or market to respond to a public health challenge, we tend to look at this through the lens of a we call the total market approach. we try and understand where the failing exists in each market place. we could be in terms of