Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, International Issues Subcommittee [Transcript]

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1 add something called the public health perspective? That
2 is indeed what one would look for at the highest levels of
3 the Secretary.
4 Were someone like David Satcher to be the chair
5 of such a committee at that higher level to look over and
6 to be able to overrule, in that sense, a Baltimore
7 committee in the interests of a broader perspective, public
8 health; and most importantly, as you said, Bruce, and as
9 I've said too many times already this morning, people with
10 experience.
11 MR. HATTOY: If the political reality is that
12 Dr. Baltimore is in charge of this country's vaccine
13 program, or we're moving in that direction, or Varmus wants
14 to move that way because the Secretary has abdicated
15 responsibility, how do we make it work?
16 DR. MANN: You've got to put it in perspective.
17 DR. HITT: Actually, I think we're going to
18 address that in the vaccine recommendation, that you can't
19 have it just in NIH. There are recommendations that it be
20 in ONAP. It needs a higher level than HHS. I think it
21 needs to be at the level of the White House. This is what
22 the President wants to have done. The White House is
23 supposed to coordinate all the different agencies.
24 However, the other thing that we're saying in
25 our document is that everything needs to be done on a
26 parallel track. I don't think we should show a discussion

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