Bill Lee

I am wondering if we have an update of a national HIV/AIDS strategy/plan and if we have a point person in the White House.

We have to know, not only for COVID, but also for any healthcare initiatives that disproportionately impact people of color.

One lesson that we learned during COVID-19 was the need for consistent, standardized, disaggregated, culturally appropriate data collection methods.

Now, the President has included $100,000,000 for CDC to start a new community-based violence prevention initiative.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Senator Warren, and myself, we introduced the Anti-Racism and Public Health Act.

We have to work together to ensure that our healthcare systems work to confront and dismantle the racist systems and practices that perpetuate racial disparities.

Thank you to Dr. Walensky for your testimony and also for your leadership in declaring that racism is a public health threat.

This has been such an informative hearing, but, also, it gives me a lot of hope.

I have to recognize this is the one-year anniversary of the killing of George Floyd.

I think those questions actually I can fold into a synthesized response, because we at NIH are deeply invested in taking a very fresh and aggressive look at what we can do about the problem of structural racism.

Thank you, Dr. Collins and all of you, for really fighting so hard to crush this virus.

I've introduced the Antiracism and Public Health Act, in order to confront racism and public health head on.

I have a mental health background. I am an MSW, clinical social worker by profession, and so this is extremely important just personally for me as a professional therapist.

I think this administration gets it.

I will do anything I can do to help support and grow those resources for the education of our young people.

We have no HBCUs west of the Mississippi.

We have in California, unfortunately, the end of affirmative action in the 1990s.

Community colleges are really the primary means for black and Latino students to gain an education, a skill, job training, whatever.

I want to know how you are going to prioritize efforts to improve health outcomes to help us achieve that goal.

I have legislation with Congresswoman Pressley and Senator Warren to declare racism as a public health issue.

Let’s hope that we do not allow this man to ever run for any public office again because he truly is a national security threat. And he did conspire to help overthrow or tried to help overthrow the United States government and to prevent…

We cannot allow our democracy to be that fragile. We see now what has taken place. So we have got to move forward with this lawsuit so that people, first of all, will understand how fragile it is and was, and we have to make sure that…

White supremacy has been with us since the beginning of time here in America. And in fact what is taking place now as we saw January 6th is that the organizing, such as the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, along with Donald Trump, Rudy…

I wrote to you to urge that the Biden administration reset U.S. relations with the Palestinians, which have suffered enormously over the last 4 years.

We want to partner with you in whatever way we can.