You Were Warned!!!

Video Transcript:

There will be a surprise outbreak. The given as you heard from the introduction that I have been around for a while and have had the opportunity and the privilege and the pleasure of serving in five administrations, I thought I would bring that perspective to the topic today is the issue of pandemic preparedness and if there is one message that I want to leave with you today based on my experience and you'll see that in a moment is that there is no question that there will be a challenge the coming administration in the arena of infectious diseases, both chronic infectious diseases and the sense of already ongoing disease and we have certainly a large burden of that but also there will be a surprise outbreak and I hope by the end of my relatively short presentation you will understand why history, the history of the last 32 years that I've been the director of NIAID will tell the next administration that there is no doubt in anyone's mind that they will be faced with the challenges that their predecessors will face with. You have to have cross sector collaboration, you can't do it alone, the CDC can't do it alone, the NIH can't do it alone, you do it with all of us with industry, with global organizations, with philanthropy and NGOs and you've got to get the leaders and the policy makers involved. What is for sure that no matter what, history has told us definitively that it will happen because infectious diseases as I said eight years ago in this article with David Morons and Greg Fokers that it is a perpetual challenge, it is not going to go away so the thing we're extraordinarily confident about is that we are going to see this in the next few years. Thank you.