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From: "Kurilla, Michael (NIH/NIAID) [E]" JY @niaid nib. gov> To: NIAID BUGS (@niaid.nih.gov>, "Heilman, Carole (NIH/NIAID) [E]" /niaid.nih.gov> Subject: One pager and its integration into the HHS package Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:52:41 -0500 Importance: Normal Attachments: Sustainable_systems_for_PHEMCE_products_(v8_0 NL)RM_jl_edits.doc; NIH__R and _D_for Health threats _-_1-pager_- FINAL.docx Attached you'll find a one pager that NIAID assembled over the weekend as part of an HHS document to be presented to Heidi Avery (National Security Council Deputy Assistant to the President) this evening. The larger document is the "shortened" version of the HHS package (there is a 10 page version as well). Michael G Kurilla, MD-PhD Director, Office of BioDefense Research Affairs Associate Director for BioDefense Product Development esda, z Iam interested in how to live in a world we dont understand very well --in other words, while most human thought (particularly since the enlightenment) has focused us on how to turn knowledge into decisions, Iam interested in how to turn lack of information, lack of understanding, and lack of "knowledge" into decisions - Nassim Nicholas Taleb