Stan, Clarence, Barry, and the Health Chatter team chat with Dr. Mike Osterholm about infectious diseases.Dr. Osterholm - a Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, and the Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota - has an extensive and distinguished career in infectious disease. Dr. Osterholm has also held numerous positions throughout state and local governments serving as the Science Envoy for Health Security on behalf of the U.S. Department of State, Special Advisor to the then Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, and various roles at the Minnesota Department of Health. In addition to the countless published articles, Dr. Osterholm is the author of Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs.Listen along as Dr. Osterholm and the Health Chatter team chat about the effects of infectious disease and the importance of being prepared. As we learned with COVID, it is not a matter of if, but rather a matter of when.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatters. Today's show, we've got a special guest with us that I'm sure many of you will recognize. We'll get to him in a second. It's on infectious disease, where we've been, where we are now, and where we're going, which we're going to be covering a lot. But we have a great guest. I'd like to recognize my crew. They're second to none, really.
Without their help, these shows would not be a success. Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, Matthew Campbell, Sheridan Nygaard. And of course, we have Dr. Barry Baines as our medical advisor. All the logistics are done by the crew in the background. They do the research and also get the shows out to you, the listening audience. Clarence Jones is my great colleague.
We do these shows together. We have a lot of good chats. And we've talked to a lot of great, great people on this show. So thank you, Clarence. It's a pleasure working with you. Also, our sponsor is Human Partnership. You can check them out. It's a great community health organization at humanpartnership.org. And check us out, healthshatterpodcast.com.
You will see all the research for all our shows, including this one. And you can also... put in questions or comments about the shows as you listened to them. So thanks to all of you. So today we have a great guest with us, Dr. Michael Osterholm. Mike and I go back a long way in the field of public health. We've done some great things together. I remember HIV training.
I remember also SARS and a whole bunch of different things. And Mike has served this community locally and also our country nationally on dealing with a lot of different things in the area of infectious disease. Mike is a Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Many of you might know that as CIDRAP. Excuse me, CIDRAP. He's also served as the science envoy for health security on behalf of the US Department of State. He's the author of a book back in 2017, Deadliest Enemy, Our War Against Killer Germs. I recommend that book.
From 2001 to 2005, Mike, in addition to his role in CIDDROP, served as special advisor to the HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson on issues related to bioterrorism in public health. And, and this is of course where I linked with Mike, was all the years that he served as the head of the Infectious Disease Department at the Minnesota Department of Health. Mike,
It's indeed a pleasure to have you on board with us today.
Well, thank you, Stan, both you and Clarence. It's a real honor to be here.
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