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<p class="photoTitle">Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg</p>
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<p>I discovered my true passion when I shifted out of the clinical setting
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and moved into public health. People used to sometimes ask me,
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“Don’t you feel like you’ve thrown away all that medical training?
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You’re not taking care of patients anymore.” And instead, I feel like
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I’ve just expanded my universe of patients, and I’m not just focused
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one-on-one, but really looking at the needs of whole populations.
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And when I was New York City’s Health Commissioner, for example,
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I had almost eight million patients!
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During the period when I was dealing with HIV/AIDS there was this
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extraordinary realization of our vulnerability to infectious diseases,
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and new diseases that we’d never seen before, and also the
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recognition that diseases like AIDS had many, many aspects
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that had nothing to do with medicine and medical care.
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And I really got interested in working at the intersection of
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medicine and social and legal and economic issues.
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I really came to understand that you couldn’t effectively
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address health simply by working within the medical system.
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When I was in New York City as Health Commissioner, I first got
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interested and concerned about the threat of biological weapons.
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I was Health Commissioner actually the first time that the
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World Trade Center was bombed, so the possibility of
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domestic terrorism was very real to me. I started thinking about
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domestic terrorism as it related to the subject closest to my heart—
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health, medicine, and infectious disease—and I immediately
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could identify all kinds of vulnerabilities to biological agents
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intentionally used to do harm. And so we actually began a program
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in New York City when I was there to prepare against the
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possible threat of bioterrorism, but we saw it as the extreme end of the
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spectrum of infectious disease threats that we faced.
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In the biological program here at NTI (Nuclear Threat Initiative)
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we are focused on a couple of critical activities. A portion of our
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efforts and resources are focused on prevention, and nonproliferation
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of biological weapons, and funding programs and trying to help develop
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policies to address those concerns. But given how hard it may be,
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ultimately, to prevent the use of a biological agent as a weapon,
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we also have to think about how can we recognize it and respond
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as quickly and as effectively as possible.</p>
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