other speakers today include nikolai gilbert, the president and ceo of pass in seattle. he has agreed to join our commission. with brokering and disturbing vaccines. we are also joined by the thetegic advisor at coalition of her preparedness and innovation. seppy is the former assistant secretary for fairness in response at health and human services department, thank you so much niki. and thank you to kendall for being here. i will turn it over to peggy to lead the conversation. thank you. peggy: thank you, steve. we have a very distinguished and experienced group of panelists. we really do want to have this as a discussion. this is a critical time to be focused on vaccines. i think it is fair to say that the whole world is very actively waiting and hoping for a vaccine or vaccines to be developed. as a critical measure of protection against what has proven to be a devastating disease, covid-19. and there is a lot of reason for optimism, but there are also some real concerns. certainly, the scientific community has galvanized in unprecedented ways, working across sectors