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podcasts or by visiting speeches dot BYU.edu slash podcasts. I'm humbled by the opportunity to stand before you and share some

perspectives on the world of global health today. I'm grateful for those who are

supporting me from here and from afar. I also express thanks to family, friends, and

colleagues who have thoughtfully and kindly given me feedback as I prepared to talk

with you today. With so many great speeches given from this campus, my main desire is not to blow it.

While I hope my message today will be appealed to a broad audience,

I am particularly interested in speaking to our students and the young people of the church who are

finding their way through the world at such a unique time. Several years ago

during an exceptionally tragic week in the news, my son heard a news agency report about earthquake drills

taking place as part of the state's preparedness efforts.

Mistaking the news report for an announcement

that an actual earthquake was going to take place in the coming days.

He approached me one evening and with tears in his eyes he said,

Dad, what about the earthquake?

The cumulative bad news, both real and perceived,

made my six-year-old think that the walls were crumbling

and that it was the end of the world as he knew it.

More than 10 years later, amid pandemics, wars,

and natural disasters, it is easy to believe in a similar narrative of

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