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- [Rebecca] This week we are attending

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both the Military-Civilian
Health Security Summit

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and the Global Health Security Conference,

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which is a regular event
that pulls together

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the different sectors of governments

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and other stakeholders
involved in strengthening

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and enhancing global health security.

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- [Deidre] The Military-Civilian
Health Security Summit

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was a great opportunity
to really incorporate

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the security sector into that
health security environment,

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which sometimes does not
include enough of that.

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Being able to have strong representation

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from the security sector really allowed us

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to have some great conversation about

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how we view global health
security differently,

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but how we can work together
to achieve our objectives.

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- I had a couple of speakers

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throughout the conference talk about

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how people want to put health

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and security in different sort of buckets

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but they are really critical

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when you pair them together.

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- [Lucas] I always thought at face value

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that it was a bit strange

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that a health area works so closely

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with a defense threat reduction area,

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but the reality is that health hazards

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and health threats

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and applying a joint view on how

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to respond together has
been incredibly fruitful.

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Australia and the US have many, many areas

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of collaboration,

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but a particularly strong one is between

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our Center for Health Security

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and the US Defense
Threat Reduction Agency,

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the Biological Threat Reduction Program.

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There's a lot of personal trust,

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there's a lot of institutional trust

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and there's a strong alignment

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in what our objectives are.

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- We each have no reason not

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to be transparent with each other.

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It's a true partnership.

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We are here to be
collaborative, cooperative,

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transparent partners with each other,

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strategically ensuring

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that we approach national security

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for our respective countries differently,

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but ultimately together.

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The second event, which took
up the bulk of the week,

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was here as a representative

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for just women overall in the
global health security space

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and just discussed amongst the panel

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of just rock stars across
the African continent,

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Europe and the like,

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on just obstacles that just still in 2024,

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we still have to overcome
as women in this space

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and that was just very powerful and moving

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and the rest of the week
was how can we collaborate

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amongst each other, amongst
the global collective

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to ensure that we're
just protected overall.

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So how can we share resources?

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How can we share lessons

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and how can we learn from
our mistakes of the past

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to be successful in the future?

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- [Rebecca] This is the
pretty robust community.

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I was actually pleasantly surprised

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at how many people that I ran into

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that I know from other parts of my career,

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but also the fact that

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so many different people come together.

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It's very important for us all to kind

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of make those connections

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with like-minded people across the globe,

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especially those that
are in different sectors

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- [Deidre] Sometimes when we're, you know,

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at work doing our own thing,

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we're really focused on our own swim lane

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and what we're doing

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and as much as we try to cooperate

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and collaborate together,
it's very difficult.

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So being able to have
a conference like this

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to bring us all together and bring all

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of those different perspectives

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and expertise together

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so that we can all work together

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to really achieve this
common objective that we have

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for global health
security has been amazing.

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- [Ada] The biggest takeaway
for me from this week

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is that there's more work to do.

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The work will never end,

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and that means we have to remain vigilant

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and how we approach just the new

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and emerging threats of tomorrow

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because it means lives.

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