America Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic — and a Leading Public Health Expert Explains Why
Watch now America Is Not Ready for the Next Pandemic — and a Leading Public Health Expert Explains Why In a wide-ranging conversation on Meidas Health, Dr. Vin Gupta and Rutgers School of Public Health Dean Perry Halkitis examine the crumbling state of America’s health security infrastructure MeidasTouch Network May 20 The recent hantavirus scare may not represent a pandemic-level threat, but to Dr. Perry Halkitis, Dean of the Rutgers School of Public Health and author of Humanizing Public Health , it represents something more troubling: a window into just how vulnerable the United States has become to biological threats of any kind. In the latest episode of Meidas Health, host Dr. Vin Gupta sat down with Halkitis for a frank assessment of where America’s public health infrastructure stands and how far it has to go. A Weakened Foundation Halkitis identified two interlocking crises at the heart of America’s diminished pandemic preparedness. The first is structural: a ...
