Dr. Susan Monarez

And it was just steady at the helm and, and decision-making and,

based on the evidence that we were seeing in the field.

And so it was hectic and frenetic, but it was disciplined.

And I really can't say enough about the staff that were leading all of those outbreaks and all of them to a place of resolution.

Oh my God.

It was, it was gut wrenching and traumatic.

I mean, it was day five on the job.

I mean, I got, yeah, I was sworn in on Thursday, did the background paperwork and I got down there on Monday morning and a morning.

I, my goal for that week had just been meet everyone.

So go to both campuses in Atlanta and,

meet as many staff from all the centers from every part of the organization.

I must have met a thousand or more different staff.

I was in the hallways and in the cafeterias.

And I walked around and just lines and lines of people that I had the opportunity to meet.

And I would ask them, who are you?

Where do you work?

And then I would ask them the two most interesting questions that I always want to know, which is, what inspires you?

And how do

And every single person that I talked to, every person, they, you know, they would offer these really inspirational stories about why they were there.

You know, they had a calling to do global health or, you know, they had a loved one who had, you know, preventable illness or they, you know, they wanted to make a contribution for communicable disease control and