Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

And we're working very closely with the interagency here.

So this is really being driven by the White House and NSC, but also HHS and ASPR, which has their essential medicines list with DOW to look at, you know, where can we invest to strengthen these supply chains?

And do you have examples you can point to in terms of active investments in this area? Or is it mostly pipeline? Is it mostly going out and trying to figure out where the next round of investments are going to be made in the coming years?

Yes, this is a somewhat new area for us.

And, um, there, there's someone else very interested, and that's, um, the US government.

And, you know, I've, um, had the opportunity to host the, you know, the BARDA and the ASPR folks on the show in the past and talk about the national stockpile and, and the, uh, the Defense Production Act.

Um, I, I, me- wherever that's press release, obviously this, uh, initially is TBain focused, but you know, when one reads the, you know, essential medicines, medical countermeasures, and critical inputs, I, I assume, you know, especially when we talk about tropane alkaloids and all that, maybe you're doing some chemical countermeasure stuff as well.

Um, to the extent you can talk about this and what you're working on, um, that's public, please, I'd love to hear about it, 'cause obviously, um, you know, whether we're talking about important critical medicines or countermeasures or everything else they work on [chuckles] down there, very important that we have a reliable source.

It's not even limited to a class of, of medicines.

It is very broadly applicable and so can be a very broad solution.

Um, so to this point, you know, we have very strong relationships, um, and established partnerships with HHS through ASPR, um, and BARDA, and that's through the BioMaP consortium that was set up, um, you know, a couple of years ago.

Um, uh, and we continue to build on those partnerships and relationships.

It would be really great if Congress reauthorizes PAPA.

Also, reiterating a really important point from ASPR is, is that preparedness is at its strongest when complementary capabilities exist at all levels of government with state, territorial, local, and tribal jurisdictions on the forefront.

Preparedness involves taking a proactive approach that considers all key stakeholders with the response to an emergency.

Any final thoughts?

in 2020 for whistleblowing on the Trump administration's plans to make hydroxychloroquine available over the counter for COVID-19.

And according to this, when he led ASPR, he halted an Obama-era initiative to develop a machine capable of producing about 1.5 million N95 respirators per day.

And he also lied to Congress about how many N95s were available in 2020.

He said we had 35 million, when in fact we only had 12 million.

And through that lens, I founded, uh, the Public Health Company, or PHC Global, and was lucky enough to have Venrock as our lead investor.

Very simply, no intelligence platform existed to give those of us, uh, myself, national security agencies, my amazing colleagues at Department of Homeland Security, my amazing colleagues that were in ASPR and HHS, and every doctor on the front lines, nothing existed for a shared common operating picture of bio-threat intelligence.

So in twenty-twenty- Knowing nothing about how to build that business or how hard it would be, I set out to do it, and six years later, we have built the first of its kind, uh, AI bio-threat intelligence platform.

When I founded it in 20-

She is currently the deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy at the White House.

There were also lots of other folks that were actively tracking, and they include Sean Kaufman, who was nominated to be the next ASPR.

Chris Klumpt, who was nominated to be the Deputy Secretary for HHS.

Dr. Nicole Sapphire, who was nominated to be the next Surgeon General.

It's interesting that I think HHS and Bobby Kennedy, assuming Trump releases all the information, is going to play a big role to include.

There's an administration for strategic preparedness readiness called ASPR that would need to be involved as well to coordinate that response.

So I totally agree with you.

There's kind of an undervalued fact that you're going to have to