Infectious Disease

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/