Biografia

4 de abril de 1956 · Pensilvânia, EUA

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A former colonel in the US Army, she spent much of her career researching HIV and working around the globe combating the pandemics of HIV, TB and malaria.

Served in the public health sector of the US government for over 40 years, working for several presidential administrations during that period. She has held leadership positions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Institute of Research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the State Department as Ambassador-at-Large and US Global AIDS Coordinator as part of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). She resides in Washington, DC.

There is not only evidence that masks work, there is evidence that masks utilized as a public health mitigation effort work. It doesn't matter if you're in a rural area, or if you're in an urban area.

When you look at the states and when they implemented a mask mandate and you look at their cases per million and you look at their fatalities per million, they are lower than states that chose to recommend masks but not to mandate

[on wearing masks]It starts with the community, and the community deciding that it's important for their children to be in school, the community deciding that it's important not to infect the nursing home staff who are caring for their residents -- for North Dakotans -- every day.

[To health officials in North Dakota]North Dakota