susan sheer for her many years and many contributions to public health and h.i.v. epidemiology and surveillance. >> so i believe that dr. cofax also has something to say. >> so, dr. sheer, susan, i want to personally thank you for your contributions to the department. we met each other i think my first day of work in 1998. i just want to express my deep appreciation. you are a very humble person who does not have a lot to be humble about. i think your work in the department really extends not only to improve the lives of people living with h.i.v. and members with h.i.v. living in the city, but also across the country and across the world. we have to mention that you have published in international journals, you've done ground-breaking research, you've supported an incredible team of folks to do the work, you've mentored many epidemiologists and scientists. you've led a life that i'm grateful for and personally very impressed by. thank you so much for your work. i hope you will enjoy your retirement. i also hope, as we work to get to zero and your leader in the getti

about the career of his friend susan who was celebrated next week and the one thing of an writing a piece on this. one thing that stripping about her career is that the sheer numbers in the leaders in which she partnered with over the years. there was no way off the world and there were hundreds and hundreds of tribal leaders and in that context, there was this context he was not difficult at all to locate the powerful work that was enacted in the settings. and today we often point to the and i why see and the critique of the general counsels in the origin story from the pot feels us. that is not the story in this book and as he sat down with the typewriter 1968 they really had no traction and in 1968 the march was front and center and the ncai triumph over stewart and his own shining moments with a central linchpin that was offered today. as they offered the al contrive it was almost at exactly the same time were the first use was uncanny moore the ninth, 14th and 18th about contrasts and november 20th which is in november of 1969. those things are not quite imaginable at the moment. in the book, he surveyed the landscape where he thought institutionally