Pandemic Preparedness & Response: Former WH Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco

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🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with former White House Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor Lisa Monaco about pandemic preparedness and response by the federal government. Monaco, who helped oversee the Obama Administration's response efforts during the Ebola and Zika outbreaks, explains which government agencies play key roles in managing public health crises and preparing for future outbreaks. She shares lessons learned by the teams she led and details of their transition to the Trump administration. She also discusses the current government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Intelligence Matters will dedicate several forthcoming episodes to understanding the fundamentals and national security implications of COVID-19.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to Intelligence Matters ad-free on Amazon Music.
0:05.5	Download the app today.
0:07.0	This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel.
0:14.1	Brought to you by Lockheed Martin.
0:16.2	Your mission is ours.
0:18.4	The most important thing you can do as a policy maker and as a leader in a pandemic or an
0:24.5	epidemic public health issue is to speak clearly, consistently and credibly and be guided
0:34.0	by science and facts.
0:35.6	That was the directive from day one in Ebola from President Obama.
0:42.7	He said, we are going to have a science-based, fact-based approach to all of the policy steps
0:49.0	we take.
0:53.0	On the coronavirus outbreak, are we now where we need to be?
0:57.0	I think that we are not where we need to be.
0:59.9	We're not where we need to be on testing because returning to work is going to involve understanding
1:06.2	where those case spikes are and we're not going to possibly do that without both diagnostic
1:11.9	testing and testing for potential immunity.
1:20.4	On a cold night in 2010, a boy is stopped by the police while walking home from a party
1:25.2	in the Bronx.
1:26.2	He's only 16.
1:28.0	He's been stopped by the police before, but this time is different.
1:32.0	In a special four-part series, The Generation Y Podcast unravels the story of Khalif Browder,
1:37.6	a young boy who was falsely accused of stealing a backpack and held without bail at Reikers
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