Maria Bartiromo

We are an organization of thousands of individuals, 6,000, 7,000 individuals worldwide. We work in regions and in countries in more than 150 countries. And the job that we do here and the job that I'm responsible for is to promote, provide, protect health.

I sit in our health emergencies program and I lead our Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management, which is essentially where we develop prevention control programs, evidence-based guidance, tools, materials to support countries to detect, prevent, respond to pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential. And we deal with some of the nasty ones.

I sit in our health emergencies program and I lead our Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management, which is essentially where we develop prevention control programs, evidence-based guidance, tools, materials to support countries to detect, prevent, respond to pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential. And we deal with some of the nasty ones.

I sit in our health emergencies program and I lead our Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management, which is essentially where we develop prevention control programs, evidence-based guidance, tools, materials to support countries to detect, prevent, respond to pathogens with epidemic and pandemic potential. And we deal with some of the nasty ones.

So COVID, flu, RSV, which is particularly challenging for young kids and for older adults, but also orthopoxviruses and the MPOX public health emergency that we're dealing with. We deal with high threat pathogens like Marburg and Ebola. We deal with arboviruses like dengue and chikungunya and Zika and urapucha and, you know, many of these types of threats.

So COVID, flu, RSV, which is particularly challenging for young kids and for older adults, but also orthopoxviruses and the MPOX public health emergency that we're dealing with. We deal with high threat pathogens like Marburg and Ebola. We deal with arboviruses like dengue and chikungunya and Zika and urapucha and, you know, many of these types of threats.

So COVID, flu, RSV, which is particularly challenging for young kids and for older adults, but also orthopoxviruses and the MPOX public health emergency that we're dealing with. We deal with high threat pathogens like Marburg and Ebola. We deal with arboviruses like dengue and chikungunya and Zika and urapucha and, you know, many of these types of threats.

But not only the biological risks, we also look at laboratory biosafety, biosecurity. So looking at the unintentional potential. potential release of these types of pathogens into the human population. And we also deal with the deliberate release. So working with many other UN agencies on a security side of things in case there were to be a deliberate release.

But not only the biological risks, we also look at laboratory biosafety, biosecurity. So looking at the unintentional potential. potential release of these types of pathogens into the human population. And we also deal with the deliberate release. So working with many other UN agencies on a security side of things in case there were to be a deliberate release.

But not only the biological risks, we also look at laboratory biosafety, biosecurity. So looking at the unintentional potential. potential release of these types of pathogens into the human population. And we also deal with the deliberate release. So working with many other UN agencies on a security side of things in case there were to be a deliberate release.

And lastly, in my department, we deal with the landscape of medical countermeasures in terms of looking at access and benefits for diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. Now, obviously, I work with tons and tons of people, you know, and across the health emergencies program in WHO.

And lastly, in my department, we deal with the landscape of medical countermeasures in terms of looking at access and benefits for diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. Now, obviously, I work with tons and tons of people, you know, and across the health emergencies program in WHO.

And lastly, in my department, we deal with the landscape of medical countermeasures in terms of looking at access and benefits for diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. Now, obviously, I work with tons and tons of people, you know, and across the health emergencies program in WHO.

But one of the things that I love the most and I hope we could potentially get into is that we are the secretariat of 194 member states and we work with incredible experts in every single country. So the best minds coming together to combat the world's biggest health challenges.

But one of the things that I love the most and I hope we could potentially get into is that we are the secretariat of 194 member states and we work with incredible experts in every single country. So the best minds coming together to combat the world's biggest health challenges.

But one of the things that I love the most and I hope we could potentially get into is that we are the secretariat of 194 member states and we work with incredible experts in every single country. So the best minds coming together to combat the world's biggest health challenges.

I love this question because I think it's so practical. I mean, I'm an American as well. Proud American. I'm also a very proud international civil servant. And to be working at WHO, working with what we call multilateralism, which just means working with lots of countries. I think we don't make the work that we do...

I love this question because I think it's so practical. I mean, I'm an American as well. Proud American. I'm also a very proud international civil servant. And to be working at WHO, working with what we call multilateralism, which just means working with lots of countries. I think we don't make the work that we do...

I love this question because I think it's so practical. I mean, I'm an American as well. Proud American. I'm also a very proud international civil servant. And to be working at WHO, working with what we call multilateralism, which just means working with lots of countries. I think we don't make the work that we do...

necessarily clear necessarily accessible to individuals i think about my own family we i was from from upstate new york but my family lives in different parts of the us right now and how does the work that we do globally resonate to someone sitting around the kitchen table how does it resonate with parents how does it resonate with people who are you know caring for their children wanting to make sure that they're safe but also caring for older individuals and not just health but the context of education and paying the bills and filling up the gas tank and