tuesday the house oversight and reform committee held a field hearing at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore. this included testimony by a new jersey governor and the chair of the president's commission on combatting drug addiction and the opioid crisis. they livered opening remarks. this is two hours and 10 minutes. >>> good afternoon, everyone. and welcome to hopkins. my name is redonda miller and as president of the hospital i have the pleasure of welcoming you all to the institution. as president i have had the immense pleasure and privilege of working with congressman elijah cummings on a variety of issues. we are grateful for his steadfast leadership nationally and on behalf of his local constituents here. we are truly lucky to count ourselves among those he excellently represented for more than two decades. chairman, we are honored to be a part of the government reform committee's efforts to find meaningful solutions to the opioid epidemic. thank you all for being here today. it is no secret we are in the throws of a crisis that reached epic proportions in our country. baltimore is no

in 1871, the school's trustees included johns hopkins, sold the property for $40,000. that was a $4,000 to $40,000 increase in a decade. this became the endowment for the miner trust fund that funded educational projects in d.c., howard's miner hall that served as the only female dormitory for years. it was associated at this time but broke away to become part of the public school system in 1879 as the miner public school where there's a church now. in 1929, the school was renamed miner's teachers college. that merged in 1955 with the white wilson teachers college to become the district of columbia teachers college. around 1975 it was consolidated with other schools to become the district of columbia. miner's teacher college -- teacher's college was the principle school to train african-american teachers for 70 years. the majority of children attending d.c. public schools were taught by graduates of this school. that's really her legacy here. that is the end of my talk. if you guys have questions i'm happy to answer them. [ applause ] yes. actually, if you don't mind w

hopkins and chicago and -- large crowd gathered for the dedication of the university cornerstone in october of 1860. what the founders possessed in vision, they utterly lacked in timing. within a month, abraham lincoln was elected president. secession and 4 years of war followed. every penny was lost and every building destroyed. the words of the familiar hymn describe the reality at war's end. not a stone was left on stone. all the nation's pride or throne went down to dust. but a new generation of founders chastened by war, cleansed from the state of pride, knowing firsthand how original sin can cause a world to fall, returned to the mountain and went to work so that the university could finally open its doors to eight students in september of 1868. now a college of 1700 undergraduates and a college of theology of 80 resident students. sewanee, over 150 years, the university of many different souths is now shaped by, learning from but neither denying nor attempting to retreat into its past is now the , university of the 21'st century south. that means many things. but it means esp

in his speech he gave at john's hopkins university in april 1965, he said he want a peace without conquest in vietnam. there's really no difference. we fight because we must fight said lbj. if we're to live in a world where every country can shape its own destiny and only in such a world will our own frieedom b secure. but millions of tons of bombs fail to get a pezant army, those phrases sounded pretty hollow if not ludicrous. in response, leftists, feminist, p pacifi pacifists build another antiwar movement. critical intellectuals betrayed wendell horn. johnson and the leaders of south vietnam. sorry. rankin, fine. it's always good to look, even if a little clumsy in my sequences there. nominant, now elderly men and women were still around during the vietnam war to reprise their youthful performances. thomas, randolph delivered rousing speeches on the blood shed into china. organized seminarians to bring their draft cards. at the age of 87, rankin, here she is 1932 opposing the war. here she is at 87. led a brigade of about 3,000 women in the 1968 march to the capitol building in d.c. an

hopkins medicine. at va he lead the department in the trance formational journey to va care and private sector care. he oversaw which includes about half a million providers, academics and community net works. increasing access to care for veterans. he is an expert in health equality. he has made important contribution to patient engagement in health care, influencing access and participation in care. he is board certified in infectious diseases. he received his bachelor and medical degrees at the university of florida. he is also completing internal medicine and infectious disease fellowship at the hospital at the university of pennsylvania. please join me in welcoming doctor. can you guys hear me all right? it is a little bit of a homecoming to be able to be here. thank you for inviting me. i'm looking forward to our conversation today. i'm looking for a couple of thoughts ability how health care is changing and draw an how other health care systems can really use the lessons to drive forward positiv

hopkins of 1965. he said that the nation can't sacrifice its honor. i wondered about this word "honor" and whether to some degree it doesn't also mean male honor, whether it's a manly honor assumed to exist on the part of the nation. this was one way we could employ the new york city peace party's way of taking a magnifying glass to a term like that, to see how does it really function? do we just want to accept that? do we just want to say, yeah, the nation's honor needs to be defended. what do we mean when we say that. this is one situation i'll use a baseball analogy, either hit the long ball and really get into this or i can square up and bunt and maybe i'll get to first base but then i need you to help take me home here. i think it's these ways we can help again not mute voices that would be critical the way in which honor seems to function in these kinds of periods. to the other thing i wanted to mention regarding the vietnam series, i thought one of the most poignant moment of the series was whe

tuesday the house oversight and reform committee held a field hearing at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore. this included testimony by a new jersey governor and the chair of the president's commission on combatting drug addiction and the opioid crisis. theyer

hopkins university. he became franklin roosevelt's key geostrategic and geography advisor. find a dumping ground for, and i am quoting, the jews of europe. westermann is going to become a pretty renowned chi in and -- guy in and of himself. he is going to become president of the american historical association. in 1917 he is this mild-mannered professor. what is interesting is what he is by december 11, 1919. on that date, this mild-mannered professor born in illinois is having a conversation with british diplomats to make a critical decision about whether the city of constantinople should go to the greeks were the new turkish republic. if they should go to the greeks, where should the new turkish capital go. this is fascinating. in the span of about two years, he does from an office in madison, wisconsin, reading papyrus scrolls to literally being in the room as they are making this decision about who should get the strategically critical city of constantinople. part of the english diplomats told him br

the pandemic became a primer for johns hopkins students. the school's leadership intensified after a former faculty member founded the epidemic intelligence service at the centers for disease control in 1951. many graduates of the school have become eis officers and many eis officers in turn have since joined the faculty of the school. one of the officers, d.a. henderson, directed the who's successful campaign to eradicate smallpox and he then came to the school as its eight dean. henderson was pre henderson went on to establish the center for health security you heard about earlier which is now approaching its 20th anniversary. alfred summer and henry moseley, two other notable eis officers, were sent to assess the 1970 cyclone and tidal bore that decimated east bengal, now part of bangladesh. their goal was to guide long-term relief and recovery planning. their eis experience as epidemic fighters was a spring-board for outstanding achievements in research, training and administration at the bloomberg school. dr. summer became our ninth de