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Thank you. [applause]. [background sounds]. Good afternoon everyone, im kate brown, im governor morgan and chair of the mba health and human services. Thank you governors for your great remarks and i appreciate everyones patience as we took such break. Im delighted that all of you are here today to join us to talk about a critically important issue that is facing our young people. That is the nicotine epidemic. In the Health Crisis the public Health Crisis that we all know is vaping. It is claiming too many lives and is making countless of our Community Members sick. While the nicotine addiction is not a new issue, the vaping epidemic National Attention this last summer, we learned of the outbreak of lung injuries and deaths associated with ecigarettes, and vap ....
Good morning and thank you all for joining us. Also our livestream audience. Im Atlantic Council president and ceo fred kempe. Thanks for joining us both here in the room and virtually for our conversation. If you want to use social media, use aciraq, aciraq. You know its an important event when the ambassador is here, when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member mijid jafar here. Thank you, Crescent Petroleum for this, for iraqi Global Energy center. Miji dichlt has been a person ive been stealing ideas from for a long time. He happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors both in the Business World and analyst of the reg ....
To aei. I do want to make a couple observations in the beginning before we get started. So becoming president of aei made addressing the state of black america a priority for our institution. And im proud of the work weve done over the past few years. In 2022, we organized the old parkland conference, which brought together prominent intellectuals and public leaders to address the Biggest Challenges black americans. And last year, we created a new center on and social mobility, which is dedicated to developing solutions. Expand access to opportunity for all americans. And for the 60th anniversary of the march on washington, we hosted a special forum here at aei honoring, dr. Kings legacy. Now we some distinguished guests here, but i want speak for a moment about to a scholars who are not guests here but are part of our community. And they. And let say about them that no scholars have more to improve our work on issues than ian ....