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Town Hall Seattle and Institute for Systems Biology present
Dr. Tom Frieden and Dr. Jim Heath
The Formula for Better Health
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Doors for this event will open at 6:30 PM. Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.
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The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own
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In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden — named “the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop” by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg — reveals how to defeat the world’s deadliest diseases. Drawing from decades leading New York City’s health department after 9/11, directing the CDC during the Ebola epidemic, and fighting tuberculosis and other lethal threats in India and around the world, Frieden combines compelling stories with insider knowledge to show you how to win the battle for health.
In this book, you will step into laboratories that solve mysteries and expose deadly deceptions. You’ll meet a trailblazing epidemiologist who survived a Nazi concentration camp, a seventeenth-century cloth merchant who discovered public health’s superpower, and a brilliant Irish doctor knighted for unlocking the cure for tuberculosis. You’ll also learn how disease detectives ended the largest outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the United States, what caused the deadliest mistake during the COVID pandemic, and why we ignore urgent medical warnings.
Drawing on critical insights from real-world successes and failures, Frieden aims to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and life-saving action. Whether you want to protect your own health, safeguard your community, or solve seemingly impossible health challenges—or all three—this book offers realistic hope and a clear path to a healthier future.
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Dr. Tom Frieden is the author of The Formula for Better Health and the founder and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global health organization supporting programs projected to prevent over 9 million deaths. A physician and public health expert, he served as Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health, where he led efforts to control multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and other public health threats. He also helped launch the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use.
Dr. Jim Heath is the president for Institute for Systems Biology. Since 2018, he has led ISB, driving interdisciplinary research in cancer and immune system dynamics while advancing innovative approaches to complex diseases. Before ISB, he was the Elizabeth W. Gilloon Professor of Chemistry at Caltech and a Professor of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA.
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