Tom Frieden

Believing things that may seem inevitable can be changed is also hard, but we've made a lot of progress.

We can make phased further progress.

We can cultivate optimism.

But the hardest part of the formula is to create a healthier future because there are always going to be challenges.

You have to prioritize.

You have to

We deal with this a lot in our work at my organization, Resolve to Save Lives.

We work in countries around the world.

And, you know, people want to do everything for everyone, but you end up not doing the most important things for the people who can benefit the most.

And this concept of progressive universalism, that we're going to start with the highest impact services for the people most in need, will benefit most, and then we're going to expand as resources, financial and human allow.

keeping it simple, communicating well, overcoming barriers.

But I think this issue of getting past the hype in personal health advice and one of the tools of technical rigor is understanding

what I call burden times amenability.

How big is the problem and how much can we do about it?

So I would say shingles vaccine for dementia prevention, I discuss it in the book.

There is some evidence.

It may still be residual confounding or methodological problems, but the most recent study is really good because it's an experiment of nature.

And we actually, this was the last reference.

There are more than 500 references in the book.

It was the last reference because it was just a preprint.