during his first tour of duty he participated in ebola outbreak investigations in zaire and the thai forest of the ivory coast as well as animal outbreak investigations and field studies in the northwest territories of canada and montana for anthrax plague and other diseases. in 2010 colonel woolen returned where he served in his current position while also completing senior service college through the distance education program at the army war college. he received his doctorate in veterinary medicine in 1985 and a doctorate in veterinary pathology in 1989, both from kansas state university. he also received a master's degree in strategic studies in 2012 from the u.s. army war college. mr. spencer the floor is yours. >> thank you. >> first off thanks, cully, for giving dod the opportunity to tell its story. that's kind of rare for us, you know? when you tell folks that your job in life is preparing the armed forces for chemical and biological and radiological events you're not the most popular guy at cocktail parties. and most people just run away. so we do appreciate the opportunity

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in 1995 colonel coleman deployed to zaire as part of a w.h.o. team responded to an ebola virus outbreak and in 2003 he was deployed for operation iraqi freedom as the chief of preventive medicine section of the 520th theater army medical laboratory. in 2008 he became deputy commander of u.s. army medical material development activity. he was selected as the 10th commander of that organization in 2010 answered in this position until 2013. he received his b.s. in biology from the state university of new york. you can tell by his accent is a new yorker. a masters degree in medical entomology and a doctorate in entomology from the university of massachusetts. colonel stephen thomas, m.d. come as the deputy commander for operations and ebola response management team leader at walter reed institute of, on institute of research. u.s. army medical research and material command. he also serves as the infectious diseases consulted to the army surgeon general. he is the chief operating officer for the enterprise which encompasses over 2000 military u.s. go

that was a vaccine intended to treat not just ebola zaire but ebola sudan and marburg virus as well. at the start of this outbreak when it became clear we are dealing with ebola zaire, working with the dod and hhs there were efforts to identify is there a vaccine candidate that could treat the disease circulating in west africa, and you've all heard about up with what's called delta vaccine candidate and that, the testing is gone. nih was involved. you'll hear more i think colonel thomas will touch upon that in your talk. so what i tried to highlight is that when we talk about medical countermeasures, each march more than just the sites that has to take place. it's getting the commercial partners. it's a business model that exist. i don't know if any of you are fully with the fda priority voucher program. a number of years ago it was recognized that we were not delivering medical countermeasures to some of those threats that occur in the less developed parts of the world. where diseases occur that there's just a commercial market. into the u.s. congress establish fda priority voucher