dr. harrell. >> thank you.nk you to everyone for joining us today both here in this room and also online. thank you especially to my coof panel members for bringing your tremendous expertise to today's discussion. one challenge of the topic of suicide is that research is unable to quantify fully the number of lives that are saved by the tremendous efforts of individuals such as general chiarelli, dr. jan kemp who devote considerable energy for our veterans. today's panel is the first event of our joining forces initiative at cnas. as an independent partner to the white house's joining forces initiative, cnas has determined our joining forces research agenda to include research and analysis in three areas; employment, education and wellness. as those areas pertain to veterans, service members and to military families. this work on military suicide was conducted in the context of our wellnd research. i have been asked whether for the first cnas joining forces product and event we should have led with a different