i'm very pleased we're joined by ambassador deborah birx, ambassador at large and coordinator of the u.s. global aids program. dr. chris beyrer and dr. steve morrison, senior vice president and director of global health policy center at csis. so please come and join me. so you are there. chris is here. that's my most important job today. okay. so as with usual in our events, i'll ask a few questions of our panelists and we'll pretty quickly get to your questions, and i hope this is a dialogue, especially for those who weren't there who want to get a sense of how things really played out because we know that the media itself didn't cover the conference extensively. that's been a trend that we've seen for a long time. so bringing that information here is really a critical task that we want to help with. so my first question is going to be the same question for each of but, but i'll start with ambassador birx, is just to get a sense of your main impression and takeaways from this year's conference. what are some of the big themes and the ones you hope to continue as we carry forward thi

i, too, was struck by the convergence of opinion just in sitting and listening to deborah birx, to celine, to mark, to tony, to michelle. the degree to which there is a very mature and advanced consensus around what needs to help is remarkable. this is not a community beset by deep controversy and division. i was at times a little irritated that there was not more debate. but this was really a science of success, i think. and there was an embedded within that was a palpable realism and focus upon result and implementation. there was a spirit of constructive forward looking progress to this. and a sense of advancement and a sense of realism that all came together around those five or six key things that need to happen. and i didn't fully appreciate the degree to which that convergence had happened. it's a real testimony, the maturity of the leadership and the continuity of leadership. when you look at the people that were up and eloquently making the case and you realized how long they have been in leadership positions in pushing this forward. it's a very unusual group that we have. i'm go