"The American people are not stupid. In fact, they're quite smart. And when we talk to them in ways where we show respect for their intelligence with data, allow people to disagree, but then have the e..."

"months ago when I first started this job, uh Secretary Kennedy challenged me to help get answers for families with autistic kids. I mean was there's uh the prevalence has been rising for decades. Like..."

"it's folinic acid. It's called but it's like it serves almost like a a way to deliver folate to the brain. um where for when some when some kids have folate processing defic folate is you know somethi..."

"initiative there to again, you know, um launch not only fascinating science projects hopefully, but also science projects which lead to clinical um insight into why that's happening to moms across Ame..."

"to higher standards. We have to be when we when we talk about people about science has to be rigorous and reproducible. Something I've been focused on um really sharply as my time as NI instructor is ..."

"just in terms of maybe we could zoom out. You mentioned you you you know took over six months ago. What are so your reflections so far in terms of your your activity and achievements to date and and a..."

"that the mechanism for reviewing the grants say at the NIH became overly cautious or did the scientists themselves become overly cautious? Well, I mean those are closely linked. It's a peerreview orga..."

"Yeah. It's interesting. It's sort of why many great venture partnerships um you know ourselves included are not consensus driven. You can't drive, you can't require unanimous consent to fund a big bol..."

"execution to use Venita's phrasing on selecting for the the innovation that if you will bubbles up from the bottom. And it's a hard question actually. It's something that's the top of my mind. Um and ..."

"I love to hear the interest in advancing early career investigators, but we can't have that conversation without talking about the universities from where they tend to come. And so, you know, I was a ..."

"Last week you announced um some really interesting initiatives around academic freedom and many folks know your voice kind of reached the national stage in part because of your ardent um desire to see..."

"better uh outcomes better health one of the big avenues that of course this country uses and it's really had as a gold standard in the past is um you know having this extraordinary public health infra..."

"thoughts on you know how do you convey uh you know uh recommendations and guidance in the face of uncertainty and incomplete information right to because going back to your point like in an ideal worl..."

"You mentioned that the the three priorities of n you have are nutrition, chronic disease and integrating AI. Maybe can you uh flesh out a little bit on on the last two where what you see as most promi..."

"last question, if you had one message for the rising star scientist contemplating a career in science where they can bring the best of their abilities to making science better, smarter, faster. you kn..."

"looking to the future um if we if we end where we started where you know uh you talked about the NIH's highest ambition is to improve the health of the American people whether that's measured in life ..."