Into the conference center. Lunch will be served. The rest rooms are to your right. People look out for the yellow wall. All that is left for me is to thank our panelists. Please, join me in thanking them. [applause] on tuesday, the first debate was held for louisianas u. S. Senate seat. Louisiana has an open primary system in which all candidates in office run against each other with the majority votegetter getting the election. However, run off election will occur between the top two candidates in the clear winner cannot be determined. Here is a portion of the debate on the subject of Climate Change. I do believe our climate is changing and i do believe we contribute. We have to be very careful about the policy that we promote. I am a strong supporter of fossil fuels, natural gas particularly because it is a 50 cleaner fuel. We have 200 years of it. America could do itself a Great Service and Great Security by promoting more Domestic Energy exploration production. I have been a strong supporter. I will open up 8 million new acres in the gulf. I have secured expert that it permits on western land. I do not agree with president obama on his energy policy. I have now served with three president s and six governors. I have disagreements as well as support with some of their policies. We have to be careful about what we do but we can do a Strong Energy future with canada and mexico and the energy independence. Thanks. There might be Climate Change, but we have not seen that reflected in temperatures. Are losing the coastline but that is relative. That isi to our related to our river as well as other factors that caused the land to sink as much as water rises. In florida, they have hardly seen any rising of the water relative to the beach. If you want to preserve our coastline, i am not sure Climate Change is the issue as much as it is getting that sentiment at of the mississippi river, putting it into the marshes where he could rebuild, that is what is important. I will point out that the first vote was for senator harry reid. A bill toever allow come to the floor of the senate and she said that would be her first vote. Cspans Cameo Campaign 2014 coverage includes more than t200 debates. Stay in touch and like us on facebook. Com cspan. On newsmakers, the executive Vice President of the planned Parenthood Action Fund will talk about the role of planned parenthood in 2014 and now the issues are playing out this year. Newsmakers, today at 10 a. M. And 6 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Monday night on the communicators, technology and the 2014 campaign. The Digital Tools are largely thought of as email tools, the online contributions, the website. I think it has evolved. Our company also offers tools that a neighb enable the shoe leather side of the campaign. The canvassing, phone calling, direct mail. We are seeing many more marketing channels come online where there is now addressable tv ads, online ads. You can have interactions through social networks. I think now there is a pretty wide swath of things you could call digital. We have moved from the broadcast era. We are in the tail and of what weve known as the early 1960s that has dominated by broadcast. It is really moving into a relationship era. We have known in the commercial sector if you are going when you go branding. Andbody actually advocating influencing this fear, how is it we moved and just knowing than messages. We have known what the messages are to deliver to people. We need to know who the right message or is messenger is. Next, Johns Hopkins host a forum on ebola including Treatment Options and how to contain the outbreak in west africa. After that, texas officials discussed their plan on how to deal with undocumented minors. A call for changes in congressional ethics investigations after that. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health hosted an ebola conference in baltimore. Health experts participated in discussions about the various types of strains, symptoms, therapeutic and vaccine treatments, and how to effectively cam contain the outbreak in west africa. Good morning. I have the privilege of being the dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. I will like to welcome here. Our school was founded 99 years ago and since then, we have stood ready to confront the worlds most pressing Global Health challenges and ebola is no exception. Our school and the Johns HopkinsUniversity School of medicine and school of insing has faculty and staff central and west africa who are working to reduce transmission prevent deaths and build trust with families and communities. The of all a virus is threatening the lives of People Living in west africa and creating uncertainty and fear in our country in other countries around the world. Time andlly a critical we have brought leaders connect bridge for multiple sectors to educate us on the ebola virus. Today, we will discuss the impact of the epidemic in west africa, current and future possible responses, the status of vaccines and possible their piece and recommendations on containment strategies that prevents the spread of disease. I will like to knowledge those that are working with Doctors Without Borders on the front lines of this crisis. Im pleased to recognize dr. Hankins. Dr. Hankins is the International Coordinator in his at the school for the 25th anniversary. Welcome to dr. Hankins and the 1998 class. [applause] i also welcome our speakers and went to thank them for being with us on short notice. I am grateful to the departments of microbiology and immunology who organized the program and to keep elliott and his team who provided the logistical and organizational support. Organizational support. Thank you both for your leadership. It was just about a week ago that the director of the Malaria Research institute are at the Bloomberg School contacted me to suggest that we invited speaker to discuss the epidemic. That idea grew into a symposium but it was her universities president , ron daniels, who talked about bringing this to as large an audience as possible. One is the 40th president of Johns Hopkins university. A former prowest at the university of pennsylvania he was professor of law at the university of toronto. Since his arrival since 2009, he has brought an appreciation of Global Impact with his programs in 120 countries while emphasizing the importance of Johns Hopkins as an institute in baltimore. He has articulated strategic goals for the university and lead and pushed us to become one university. He is a scholar at the intersection of law and governance and economic development. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences and has received many awards and honors including an honorary doctorate from the university of toronto. Its my pleasure to welcome ron daniels to the podium. [applause] [applause] thank you so much, mike. And thank you for your great and inspired leadership. What a remarkable Louisburg School of Public Health. I want to thank the faculty and staff of the Bloomberg School will have worked to bring together the remarkable assembly of colleagues from across the nation to share their experiences and expertise. To speak with which this symposium came together is tough because of the debt and breadth of our capacity across the divisions from bluebird to the school of nursing to the school of medicine to our affiliated partners to Human Capital to help understand mounting Public Health crises and inform the response. This is, simply put, what are people do and india have always done. As a member of the Public Health service, Johns Hopkins professor compiled and analyzed data on the app epidemic of 1918 to 1919, providing the foundation for tracking still by the Public Agency today. The first step in controlling an epidemic is accurate diagnosis. Time and time again, Johns Hopkins individuals have identified from polio to fevers that are vulnerable on populations. The Bloomberg School mom and i led the who campaign to rid the world of smallpox and then returned to the school. In the early years of the aids crisis, playing pivotal roles in identifying the population in sponsoring the spread of disease in hospitals and clinics from baltimore to uganda. Now as the numbers of ebola cases and the death toll rises, as nations and communities across west africa struggle with basic Health Care Needs of populations in addition to managing acute care for patients, as we consider the daunting implications if this outbreak is not met with an International Response, we are acutely aware of the obligations with the intellectual and moral bounty is the community wrestles with this unpredictable epidemic. An epidemic that who director general yesterday declared a crisis for international security. And so with this across the african continent and our expertise including Public Health and International Public policy, we are wellpositioned to help ignite ideas around best practices and most importantly turn those ideas into actions, working in concert with our many partners. Building on our past work and efforts, they are as we said a few moments ago, well under way as across to aid in the response and to work with the ministries of health. These collaborative efforts range from implementing Training Programs that would put 1000 Health Workers in liberia to assist with care and academic management. They are developing a robust and realistic analytical model that will help those leading the fight make better Strategic Decisions and in the present. And to create a communication strategy to educate and empower workers and to put the most current information in the hands of the population. Of course as a Research University we play as evidenced here today another essential role, we are told convener of importance in these controversial conversations. In these conversations with todays speaker, Michael Osterholm has extolled us to do, we ask questions that the world is most afraid to ask. And we can create a scaffold to discipline an informed debate and we reckon with the answers no matter how daunting or complex or how unnerving they are. Once again, this is a moment where they must be present and for hopkins, this is more than a professional obligation and it demands that we continue to deploy personal courage and grit that defines us. So for all of these reasons to be here today, your president and your engagement inspires optimism and i know that this will be a productive day and i think each of you for being part of the important work that lies ahead. I hope and trust that we will be able to do more to lead the our experts and energy to the african continent. So now i would like to turn the program over to the associate professor of molecular your biology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and research is focused on influenza but its emerging research has led to research on other viruses including the enterovirus d68 and ebola. Recognizing the discoveries can be an important part of communicating effectively with the media and the broader public. In addition to the instrumental invaluable role in organizing this symposium, he will be monitoring todays program. Andrew pekosz, thank you for your extraordinary efforts to bring us together. Take you both for being here today. [applause] [applause] thank you for the speakers web kindly agreed to be here and speak on tort notice. Welcome to the audience and for everyone who is reading this online as well. Putting together a broad wideranging and informative symposium that we are told every one can appreciate, we are into general sessions ominous warnings session will be five presentations on a variety of topics related to response preparedness dealing with the epidemic and we will take a short break and then we will have our featured speaker here giving his keynote address. Then we will convene a panel. At that point in time we really hope to engage the audience in terms of asking any range of questions that they have regarding challenges for the intervention Mitigation Strategy for the outbreak. We want to focus our questions here as its going on right now in west africa and honestly concerns about this outside are things that we touch on as well. And so without further ado, i would like to introduce the first speaker. Dave peters is a professor of the school of Public Health. His seminar is entitled be helpful, be hopeful despite ebola. [applause] [inaudible] identify my wife, or you can find her. [laughter] okay, lets start at the beginning. Okay, there we go. Enqueue very much. And i am pleased to be able to talk with you about the community they strategy to fight ebola. Its an operation that we are privileged to be involved in. I would like to first put it in a little bit of context. Of course we see the ebola disease being the center of this and this is a picture of the emerging epidemic in terms of the number of cases and as you can see although it started sometime in december, we are now in the expotential part of the curve and so it is increasing concern about this and i think that others are going to talk more specifically about the patterns. But its not just about the virus that started all of this. There are numbers of other types of epidemic that are going on in west africa as well. First of all most, after the virus of felt, a contagion of fear and distress. Only within the country but also internationally. This has led to another several patterns and its important to recognize what we are doing and why. So this has to do with a series of self reinforcing types of feedback situations that we to epidemic. One of them being with the Health System itself. It started off being a very with weak Health System and they had four strikes before the Ebola Outbreak because of the inability to pay off workers. And when the epidemic struck of course we had a tragedy with those dead in liberia alone. The clinics have been closed and this leads to the worsening of Health Conditions and Collateral Damage not just for ebola, but also being like malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia. So this type of reinforcement is part of it. But also in terms of the economy and livelihood and these people are not always been harvested. There are lots of trade and comes and of course feedback around this area. And then another one around social capital and institutions as the government has been unable to deliver services to the type of need with government institutions and a real damage to cohesiveness and culture that is reinforcing. Part of the way of getting these cycles is to break the leadership. I wanted to highlight to the assistant minister of health in liberia, he is the person for the outbreak in liberia. He is also a graduate of the school of Public Health and he has written how it is important to Pay International support in winning the Publics Trust to stop the outbreak. His statement is that we must be helpful and stay hopeful to his own staff and his own people. The slogan within liberia is to be effective stay safe and keep serving. So part of the rationale of moving to a communitybased strategy actually emerges from the area of liberia itself. And so it shows basically the cases over the months where monrovia, the capital is. But what you see is the one that started off in his axis turning to curtail off. This is one of the early counties where they have a problem with fear and a lot of distrust. What has happened is that communities are mobilizing in different ways organize them knows to try to address the epidemic. This has become the focus how the Community Care center is being managed out of these emerging properties in the county itself. There are other rationales and these are some pictures from those who have known to us in the Community Care center hospitals. What he is showing here is in liberia there is not a lot of Running Water and this is the kind of creativity that they are trying to do so that people can wash hands. Until actually trying to find ways to improve hygiene. So these are things that are sort of happening in the community themselves. A lot of innovation. Theres analysis but also backs up the notion of the Community Approach including those that we were collaborating with a took the models and updated them and try to model some