Dr. Susan Monarez

And I want to.

back on my life and I want to, well, and if I follow your directions, I'd be 107 or 127.

Bold, okay?

But I want to look back on my life and I want to be able to say I helped as many of my fellow humans as absolutely possible because really there's no other metric for what it means to be human, to be good.

What is the most that you can do to contribute to the positiveness of

you know, life and wellbeing and your fellow humans and whatnot.

And, um, and so, you know, I, um, so I, so I, I dug myself off the couch after a few days and I started thinking, you know, look, I have to use this as an opportunity, um, as sort of my own personal call to action for what more can I do?

What, how can I keep contributing?

And I have, you know, again, I've had this extraordinary privilege of serving in these various different capacities for 18 years in every different way.

And it's been hard and challenging and, you know, different dimensions of the health ecosystem.

I've seen every part of it.

And I've faced some of the most challenging times, the most challenging, you know, issues that we have.

And I want to take all of that

and figure out a way that I can harness that, you know, science and health and technology, innovation and policy and do something, um, really helpful, really big and bold.

And, and, um, so, so I, so it was, uh, you know, it taught me, it taught me about, uh, when, when things don't work out and it also taught me to be resilient.

and to keep having that North star and to continue to, to push it.

And I, you know, I don't want to, my sub stack is going to be all people like that who have just really, you know, had an opportunity to say the face, the headwinds and, and really wanted it to, to continue to contribute, to be resilient and make big contributions.

I'd also want to do that in other.

Yeah.

I mean, it's, you know, it sort of is, we had this mantra at ARPA-H with this sort of what if, and what is the future that we want to shape?