dr. waldman.i think what susan did was lay out the architecture for the legal responsibilities of how the international community should respond. dr. waldman, ron, give me your experiences both working in the u.s. government and internationally. welcome your sense of where we are now, but also particularly what lessons do we draw from this experience in terms of going forward, in terms of health systems that we've heard so much about but also the international response capacity. >> thanks, josh. thanks, john. is the microphone on? >> it is. >> thanks, john. i'd like to address the problem in two parts. one is what we can do about this horrible outbreak now, and then where we can go from here: i want to start by saying that in regard to dr. kim's statement, i would just -- every time she used the word probably too late, i would just take off probably. [laughter] i don't think it's really an issue that the world did respond too late. we allowed the outbreak to spread, and we allowed the number of ca

dr. ron waldman, professor of global health at the george washington university. ron has had an exceptional and distinguished career in public health, including centers for public disease control and prevention. his resume is very long and very distinguished but includes an extraordinary list of initiatives, including smallpox eradication campaign, developing a new center for forced migration and health, pandemic preparedness for the u.s. government, and lead roles in respect to the current crisis, he is the team leader for saves the children ebola response. one thing i would say as i have had the fortune of working with all three of these panelists in different parts of my career. susan with the o'neill steve at, sees -- state and ron at hhs. we will follow the same format as the earlier panel. we will do some general questions and i will those specific questions developed by the student here. andgoing to ask everybody ask the general question to each of you to kick this off. let me start with susan. heard much discussion about roles and responsibilities that gov

dr. ron waldman, professor of global health at the george washington university. ron has had an exceptional and distinguished career in public health including service at the centers for disease control and prevention, usaid and the world health organization and united nations. his resume is very long and very distinguished, but includes an extraordinary list of initiatives including smallpox eradication campaign, developing a newscenter for forced migration and health, endemic preparedness for the new government and lead roles in response to the indonesian tsunami in tahiti earthquake. with respect to the current crisis, he is the team leader for save the children ebola response. one thing i would say is i've had the deep fortune of actually working with all three of these panelists in different parts of my career. susan with the o'neill institute, steve estate and ron at hhs. i think we are meant for a terrific panel today. we will follow the same format as the earlier panel. we will do some general questions and then i will post to the panelists on specific que