Deandra Howard

Yeah.

So I would say just kind of jumping onto what Barry kind of said, just because I work in research, clinical research at the U. So, you know, a lot of those, you know, government funded programs,

Studies have been affected, and thankfully for my team, we do a lot of business and industry, but it's just tough to see because a lot of those government-funded studies are directly related to things that are really affecting public health and people today, like a lot of cancer studies and just a lot of studies that need a lot of funding.

And, you know, so for me, it's just kind of tough to see that because it's, you know, for me, I'm in a lot of business and industry studies.

But I feel like we need that balance of, you know, business and industry is great.

I think they do a lot of great studies.

There's a lot of things that they've done.

done to kind of further public health research in a lot of different areas.

But a lot of this government funded research is really directly related to, you know, diseases and diagnoses that people are dealing with every single day.

And that is like more directly related to the public population.

So, all right.

Yeah, just to go like feet off of the back of Matthew, I think one of the toughest parts about being a health professional is getting people just even in your day-to-day life to understand like how long it takes for you to see progress in healthcare, in just different diagnoses, medicine.

And I think I understand where you could, if you don't know,

You could feel like there is that, you know, waste.

We are spending all this money, but it takes a lot of time.

And I don't think people understand the time it takes just to see progress, not even to see cures and solution, just to see progress, just to get us in the right direction.

And I think that can be really hard to explain to people.

And I find myself explaining that to, you know, my friends and my family and explaining like,

Science and research is, you know, like a hypothesis.

It's, you know, it's, you know, it's trial and error.