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Podcast: Global Dispatches -- World News That Matters
Episode: Can Dr. Tom Frieden Save 100 Million Lives?
Description: Dr. Tom Frieden lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017. He now has a new role: President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies.  And in this role he has an audacious goal: to save 100 million lives. In our conversation, Dr. Frieden explains why he believes that he can achieve that goal by focusing on two health issues: cardiovascular disease in the developing work and shoring up our global defenses against pandemics.  To those ends, he has some major backers including the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, the Bi...