Eric Topol

So we have this now somehow normalized, immune almost on a daily basis, something here in the US.

Now, that gets me to my last question to you.

You, as an American,

raised in Miami, you decided to immigrate to the UK and to set up shop there, the University of Edinburgh.

I don't know how prescient you must have been knowing how this place has become such a mess with respect to lack of support for health, as you know, gutting National Institutes of Health and gutting public health agencies.

Did you know about that when you decided years ago that you were gonna move to the UK?

I just think, though, that somehow you must have thought, you know, in a futuristic way, being there might have a better place to study and be supported for the efforts you've led in global health throughout your career, which has been

Here you are quite young still, and you've already had a storied career in global health efforts.

And so I just want to congratulate you on a phenomenal book, as well as all that you've been doing there for a couple of decades to lead us in the sphere of global health and this very remarkable insight that you have.

Here, you've lived in a couple of countries throughout your life, but somehow or other, you have a window into so many other places around the world from your efforts.

So thank you, Debbie.

What a pleasure to connect with you today in this live format.

I think it's definitely been a conversation that will get archived.

The people who joined late, many have joined along the way, can go back and listen to

to the whole thing, but really appreciate.

Thanks for putting this book together.

And also I'm looking forward to reading your column on make America healthy again, because I think I probably share all the views that you're going to articulate and you do that so well in your, in your columns that,

are frequent, which is really important to keep getting the word out.

Also, that perspective from across the pond is important because when we write about this stuff, it doesn't go nearly as far with respect to respect and uptake as when you and others are

the UK and Europe and health, write about the mess that we're in right now.