Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations; author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health and, most recently, I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks
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