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Maria Bartiromo

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538 total appearances

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The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

So COVID, flu, RSV, which is particularly challenging for young kids and for older adults, but also orthopoxviruses and the MPOX public health emergency that we're dealing with. We deal with high threat pathogens like Marburg and Ebola. We deal with arboviruses like dengue and chikungunya and Zika and urapucha and, you know, many of these types of threats.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

So COVID, flu, RSV, which is particularly challenging for young kids and for older adults, but also orthopoxviruses and the MPOX public health emergency that we're dealing with. We deal with high threat pathogens like Marburg and Ebola. We deal with arboviruses like dengue and chikungunya and Zika and urapucha and, you know, many of these types of threats.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

But not only the biological risks, we also look at laboratory biosafety, biosecurity. So looking at the unintentional potential. potential release of these types of pathogens into the human population. And we also deal with the deliberate release. So working with many other UN agencies on a security side of things in case there were to be a deliberate release.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

But not only the biological risks, we also look at laboratory biosafety, biosecurity. So looking at the unintentional potential. potential release of these types of pathogens into the human population. And we also deal with the deliberate release. So working with many other UN agencies on a security side of things in case there were to be a deliberate release.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

But not only the biological risks, we also look at laboratory biosafety, biosecurity. So looking at the unintentional potential. potential release of these types of pathogens into the human population. And we also deal with the deliberate release. So working with many other UN agencies on a security side of things in case there were to be a deliberate release.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

And lastly, in my department, we deal with the landscape of medical countermeasures in terms of looking at access and benefits for diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. Now, obviously, I work with tons and tons of people, you know, and across the health emergencies program in WHO.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

And lastly, in my department, we deal with the landscape of medical countermeasures in terms of looking at access and benefits for diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. Now, obviously, I work with tons and tons of people, you know, and across the health emergencies program in WHO.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

And lastly, in my department, we deal with the landscape of medical countermeasures in terms of looking at access and benefits for diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines. Now, obviously, I work with tons and tons of people, you know, and across the health emergencies program in WHO.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

But one of the things that I love the most and I hope we could potentially get into is that we are the secretariat of 194 member states and we work with incredible experts in every single country. So the best minds coming together to combat the world's biggest health challenges.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

But one of the things that I love the most and I hope we could potentially get into is that we are the secretariat of 194 member states and we work with incredible experts in every single country. So the best minds coming together to combat the world's biggest health challenges.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

But one of the things that I love the most and I hope we could potentially get into is that we are the secretariat of 194 member states and we work with incredible experts in every single country. So the best minds coming together to combat the world's biggest health challenges.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

I love this question because I think it's so practical. I mean, I'm an American as well. Proud American. I'm also a very proud international civil servant. And to be working at WHO, working with what we call multilateralism, which just means working with lots of countries. I think we don't make the work that we do...

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

I love this question because I think it's so practical. I mean, I'm an American as well. Proud American. I'm also a very proud international civil servant. And to be working at WHO, working with what we call multilateralism, which just means working with lots of countries. I think we don't make the work that we do...

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

I love this question because I think it's so practical. I mean, I'm an American as well. Proud American. I'm also a very proud international civil servant. And to be working at WHO, working with what we call multilateralism, which just means working with lots of countries. I think we don't make the work that we do...

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

necessarily clear necessarily accessible to individuals i think about my own family we i was from from upstate new york but my family lives in different parts of the us right now and how does the work that we do globally resonate to someone sitting around the kitchen table how does it resonate with parents how does it resonate with people who are you know caring for their children wanting to make sure that they're safe but also caring for older individuals and not just health but the context of education and paying the bills and filling up the gas tank and

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

necessarily clear necessarily accessible to individuals i think about my own family we i was from from upstate new york but my family lives in different parts of the us right now and how does the work that we do globally resonate to someone sitting around the kitchen table how does it resonate with parents how does it resonate with people who are you know caring for their children wanting to make sure that they're safe but also caring for older individuals and not just health but the context of education and paying the bills and filling up the gas tank and

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

necessarily clear necessarily accessible to individuals i think about my own family we i was from from upstate new york but my family lives in different parts of the us right now and how does the work that we do globally resonate to someone sitting around the kitchen table how does it resonate with parents how does it resonate with people who are you know caring for their children wanting to make sure that they're safe but also caring for older individuals and not just health but the context of education and paying the bills and filling up the gas tank and

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

Thinking of a secure future. We don't talk about health like we talk about security. We don't talk about health the way we talk about defense. Everybody invests in defense because we see the threat that's there, this hypothetical threat. Maybe not so hypothetical because we have wars that are happening right now. But health is a fundamental right. And much of what I do is prevention.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

Thinking of a secure future. We don't talk about health like we talk about security. We don't talk about health the way we talk about defense. Everybody invests in defense because we see the threat that's there, this hypothetical threat. Maybe not so hypothetical because we have wars that are happening right now. But health is a fundamental right. And much of what I do is prevention.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
Meidas Health, Episode 4: Why Trump’s WHO Exit Puts Us All at Risk (Dr. Van Kerkhove)

Thinking of a secure future. We don't talk about health like we talk about security. We don't talk about health the way we talk about defense. Everybody invests in defense because we see the threat that's there, this hypothetical threat. Maybe not so hypothetical because we have wars that are happening right now. But health is a fundamental right. And much of what I do is prevention.