Good afternoon, everybody.
Welcome, Dr. Martin. It's nice to see you sitting on our committee. It's a pleasure to have you here.
Welcome to our witnesses today. We are so pleased you could come to committee to give us some insight into community preparedness for H1N1. We've been studying it extensively, so we're glad to have a new perspective today.
I'm going to ask each organization to have a person give a 10-minute presentation. If you want to share, that's just fine too. I tend to have a little leverage on that to make sure you get to say everything you want. Following that, we'll have two rounds. If you have two people presenting, each will have five minutes. So guard your time accordingly.
Right now we're going to start with your presentations, then we will have a seven-minute question and answer round.
We'll start with Dr. Anand Kumar. I would very much like you to present, Doctor, and welcome.