MS. RAYMOND: Good morning, everyone. And thank you so much, Brad. To all our participants, thank you for joining us for this embargoed briefing today.
We will be providing an overview of the American Pandemic Preparedness Plan, also entitled “Transforming our Capabilities,” which will advance the President’s commitment to building back better for the next biological threat.
We’ll start with some comments from our speakers. Today, we have the President’s Science Advisor and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, as well as a member of the President’s Cabinet, Dr. Eric Lander; as well as the Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense, Dr. Beth Cameron.
After they both give initial remarks, we’ll open it up for question-and-answer.
As a reminder, this briefing is on the record, but the call contents and the materials that we shared prior to the call are embargoed until 3:00 p.m. this afternoon.
And with that, I’ll turn it over to our speakers, starting with Dr. Lander.
DR. LANDER: Well, thank you very much, and good morning to everybody and thank you for joining the call. So, my name is Eric Lander. I’m the President’s Science Advisor and I’m the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
And today, we’re releasing a plan for transforming U.S. capabilities to prepare for and respond rapidly and effectively to future pandemics and other high-consequence biological threats.