Class of 2010 and 2011. The cgiu team is so incredibly excited and grateful as we face these globally challenging times were still able to find a way to come together with experts and all of you for meaningful important conversations. We are disappointed we didnt have an opportunity to meet many of you in person. We have been so heartened to watch this mobilize in support of each other and our cgiu staff. We have been able to put this event together and bring a new and exciting added dimension to the cgiu experience. Back in march, students were channeled to sib mitt a short video tell us about themselves, their commitment to action and their reflections on how the Novel Coronavirus has affected them and their communities. Students were asked to submit questions on any topic for president clinton and Chelsea Clinton. You mean have an opportunity to meet several members of the cgiu and listen to their questions and to president clinton and chelsea for their responses. Were appreciative of those who sent it their video submission. Elcome to cgius First Virtual town hall with president clinton and Chelsea Clinton. Hi. Im representing the university of amsterdam. My one question to president bill clinton or Chelsea Clinton. The covid19 pandemic is changing our lives. How can we come out of it while also strengthening our Democratic Institutions worldwide . Pres. Clinton first of all, i think that is a really good question. My advice first of all is to ake sure that the kind of good information we have gotten continues with a covid19 emergency i think by and large all across the world the press has done a very good job in educating people about the dimensions of the crisis and the impact it is having in a particular area they are reporting. I think we ought to keep fighting for that. We have learned here the of not having good information. Secondly, i think every country should examine its procedures and see whether they have done Everything Possible to make them effective, honest, checkable and something that will work even when people are homebound. I think that is very important. We just had an unfortunate situation in the United States in wisconsin where the Supreme Court basically said that the election had to occur on the day it was set. Thank goodness a large number of people voted in advance. We dont need to put lives at risk to be good citizens. I think making sure it works and keeping the information as accurate as possible is very important. I believe that the steps that many people must have that they were helpless and voiceless should be overcome. We need more people out there on a regular basis and realizing some of these elections will have far greater consequences than we can imagine if anything bad happens. I hope this has made whoever is listening from whatever country aware there are enormous consequences and it is very important to get it right. Chelsea that is an important question. I will add to what my dad sarksde i will add to what has become evidence, helping protect our democracy as well as helping to protect Public Health probably and Patient Health specifically. I would hope that as part of our nse become part of our in o democracy. More investments in efforts like contact tracing. Definitely need to be making an investment in efforts to make sure people who are suspected of having covid19 and tested positive for covid19 can isolate with the support they need. For the moment, we are able to take what we are learning now and what we expect out of our leadership and move forward. At the local level and the national level. Im a doctor and pharmacy student here in detroit, michigan. The act has been signed at the whopping cost of 2. 3 trillion. How can they ensure the United States will have the frmr pres. Clinton first, that is a very good question. And i think it is important that you understand there are people in the congress and in the country among the governors and the mayors and other officials that want to do that. I believe we should more adequately stockpile. We set it up in 1998. It needs to be maintained for this sort of thing. We should have had more ventilators and a lot more ppe, a lot more everything. We need those things in the stockpile. Other countries do as well. Secondly, i think we need much better coordination among nations of the world. The whoe working with as opposed to fighting with it. We need to respond the way south korea did, for example and we would have fewer people died, lower costs, and we would have more people working right through. You have to be prepared for this. Andeed to gain it out continue to work on it and i think it should be part of our National Security planning as well as our economic planning. If it happens again, i think we will be in a and position if we have adequate supplies and adequate tending testing to respond. It is important to be prepared. Now, theest a little next time it happens, in all probability we will be able to respond much more quickly. Chelsea joseph, i would add tot while we absolutely need be doing everything we can to support people today, we also need to recognize the front lines this crisis has exposed in our country. And deep andl festering brute of racism in our country as well as the fact that we have underestimated underinvested in our workforce in terms of not having adequate personal protective equipment butuding masks and gowns also we have not invested in our workforce. Nurses, hospital administrators and cleaning ff and food support staff that not only are they protected but also respected. Also that we are helping to ofin the next generation everyone who will do those jobs in the time ahead. We dont have enough Frontline Health staff. We need to ensure that we have enough Frontline Health staff for the next time this happens which could be in a year or two or further down the pike. But also so that we are more robustly prepared for the future nomad or what it may bring and hopefully, our learning the ,ainful lessons of this moment making sure we have a more equitable future. My name is winter wealth and. I am from athens, ohio in the u. S. And i study at ohio university. If i could ask bill and Chelsea Clinton it would be what would be the Lessons Learned from your response within the Clinton Foundation to covid19 . Frmr pres. Clinton im grateful for the response the foundation has had. Wetakeaways are one, i wish could have done more but at least we were able to do some very important things including feeding tens of thousands of meals to people where our a system thath allowed us to package the meals and leave them outside doors so they could be distributed safely. They were distributed to poor kids and their families to the homeless. The work that too small to was able to do. Maintaining a sense of normalcy in the home. That is important. I think the work that people in the Clinton HealthAccess Initiative in working with the World Health Organization to help other countries. That is important because if we dont do that, these problems will not only unfairly hurt the poorest people on earth but also come back into america. Work which has safe groups. Nto news aboutn a lot of people having Worship Services when they should not but we havent heard enough about people that are bending over backwards to care for those in their care. I think we have done what we could. Butsh we couldve done more we did what we could under the circumstances. In the days and weeks ahead, i hope we will be able to do more. Hello, i study at the university of edinburgh. How do we tackle the Mental Health crises and how do we deliver the support that people need while ensuring people are following the guidelines and staying inside . Frmr pres. Clinton that is a really important question because we know for a lot of people, the pressures they feel will be aggravated by a sense of isolation. I think it is important to develop a line of instruction for people who are neighbors and friends and relatives of people that have mental illness. I think we need to get as much of this Service Online as possible. We also have to have a cadre of people equipped to safely go to the homes of people that have severe problems who may not be responding online or may not be able to respond online. That the physical challenges can be as great as the mental ones but we dont want to put peoples lives at risk. That is what i think we need to build systems for. Systems that at least we in the United States have an indepth have an inadequate supply of. Chelsea i think we can check on our friends and family. Here in the u. S. , there has been an extraordinary effort for young people especially to help their older family members or neighbors and increasingly be whoected to older people they dont know and would not meet except possibly by waving through the window to be able to pick up groceries or prescriptions at the pharmacy. And hopefully, that sense of ofmunity even in this moment being kept apart but finding ways to be together will be good for all of us. Those engaged in that work of reaching out and helping and being engaged but also for people to hopefully not feel so alone whether they are at the other end of a phone call or at a grocery drop off. And i think also one of the things that is really encouraging at least here in the u. S. Is there are Mental Health professional associations. They are racing to figure out how to augment preexisting telehealth or recommendations and programs. And to do Realtime Research and monitoring on what is working, what is resonating and also what is not working to course correct realtime. Encouragingibly that so much is happening and get we know so much more needs to happen. We also know that at least here in the u. S. , we still have an arounds amount of stigma people waving their hands and saying i need help. Hopefully, as we move through this moment, we will continue to obliterate the stigma and built capacity and competencies so everyone that needs help for any they can getnow the help that they need. Frmr pres. Clinton if i could say one last thing. One of the things i have learned from this is how many people thatd protective equipment i had not thought of when it started. And i think it must be true in edinburgh where you are in school and in every country represented here. Yorkirst responders in new where chelsea and i live, the number of them whose lives have been put on the line because they had to respond to situations whether they are Police Officers or ambulance divers or whatever that they were not prepared for is staggering and none of them have gotten sick. And i think this hammer some the fact that when this is over, we need to prepare for this. Thated to make sure everybody has the reserve of protective equipment that they need to give people the ability to deliver in person Mental Health interventions if necessary. And also do whatever we can online. ,helsea and i would say also here in the u. S. And in scotland and everywhere, we need to be thinking now about what we need to ensure to provide at no cost, seamlessly, high quality Supportive Services to all of our frontline workers who are work being sent into whether that is into a hospital, on an ambulance, on a fire truck, at the Grocery Store with insufficient protective equipment and certainly over the last weeks and months with insufficient information. Enormous and gratitudele debt of to those on the front line. We need to protect their Mental Health today and in the time ahead. Hello, everyone. I am carried from hong kong. I have a question for president clinton [indiscernible] when thousands of issues come together, how will you prioritize those issues . Think there are as many right answers to that question as there are people listening. People listening to us today. Or in the world. Each of us have to think about how to match what we care intensely about with our talent. And we can use that intensity of feeling whether it is angry about anger about something we think has gone wrong or hope about something that has gone right and then try to make a difference. And use that to prioritize where we spend our time and energy. And then to think more broadly what other organizations we may want to get involved in or work you want to support or candidates you want to vote for and think about how we prioritize in a way that hopefully feels empowering and good for us and hopefully it creates impact in the world. Frmr pres. Clinton that is a question i ask myself all the time partly because i am so much older than everyone at cgiu. But also because one of my i amgths and weaknesses is interested in everything and i want to do something about everything i camp. What i tried to do is ask myself first of all, is this challenge something i can do something about . Do i know about it do i know enough about it or can i get partners for it . Can i finance a meaningful response . Sometimes it works, and sometimes it does not. For example, im very proud of the work we have done with Small Farmers in africa. But i wish i had enough money to do it for millions of farmers. Small farming has not been amplified as it should. It is frustrating to me because iam loath to give it up but know with the limited funding i have, it might be better to put it into something else. There really are difficult questions that have to be answered here that are not always easy to answer. I also have to face the fact that the Political Climate in america is different than what it used to be. Whether well, it is obvious and that has affected the range of things i can do. I am however, richly blessed to stay busy. We do, especially a lot of work in our region. In the caribbean and latin america. Haiti, we have invested 500,000 and we are still doing things. Through the political ups and downs in all kinds of up evils. We work in areas of the caribbean that are particularly vulnerable to hurricanes. That has been the case in the bahamas which has also suffered an earthquake. We try to get people together to Work Together that strengthens but also theonse ongoing governmental process. I tried to do something that i care about, i know it is important, and i believe i can have an impact. Im not particularly interested in doing things where i can just give a speech that cannot have an impact. To thinkll of you need about that. If you are younger, advocacy as important and starting up and being heard is important. At my age, i think i shall put most of my energies and in doing things that will have an Immediate Impact on peoples lives in a positive fashion and that is what i tried to do. Hello, everyone. I am from belarus and i study at the university of an imperiled. University of edinburgh. If i had the opportunity to ask president clinton one question, it would be the following. How do you help in times of hardship . Frmr pres. Clinton for me, i am a wonderful, brilliant wife i can talk to. I have, as you just saw, a special daughter and a soninlaw i can ask for a device and i have a Wonderful Group of close friends. Been blessed in that because one of the things that happens as you get older is you have to say goodbye to more and more people that were really important in your life. But i still have a group of friends i rely on and i am in regular contact with. And if i am feeling low or perplexed, i can tell them without feeling i look weak or polish. Beingt worry about embarrassed or depressed about it. I just say it. I also have certain wisdom books i referred to from time to time. I go back every couple of weeks and read the meditations of market will yes. I read the meditations of christ. I read things i think makes sense that help me get reoriented. And i think all of us need that. Up i also tried to wake ofry day reminding myself what a blessed life i have had and that i still have my health and my brain still works pretty well and i need to get up and get on the road and not worry about the obstacles. Just do what i can. Like and it should be that for all of us i think particularly those of us that are younger. You have no idea what ill will happen to you good and bad in your life. And you half to embrace your dreams and no view our and then the grain of salt and just do the best you can. Helpful is find reminding myself every day about how i keep score. How you keep score in your life is really important. If you have a friend if you have a financial setback coming your friends will still be there for you. Setback, and work you still have your ability, your brain, and your heart, you can start again. If you make a mistake him you can own it and go again. I used to joke with people but haveot joking that i might found my faith even if i had not born been born a christian because we believe in a god of second chances. Whenn all sorts of faiths, way or another, that is acknowledged. I have a lot of muslim friends. I have friends that are hindus. Regularlyfriends from me wonderful poetry the great indian poet and philosopher. I think you should draw on all of these things. And you just have to remember that life is a gift. And it does not take long to live a life. You might as well enjoy every day that you have and take the tough days as a learning experience and go on. How can we young people continue supporting our communities and lifting up their voices to make sure they are heard during this Global Pandemic . Frmr pres. Clinton that is one the foundation has been a blessing. Im sure that like all of you i have been profoundly moved by social media messaging which has reached me from all around the country and from as far away as south africa. And asian countries. People getting their messages out. Here is what is going on. Here is what we n