Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology. He is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. Look for his book "Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Deadly Germs" for more info.
All right, here we go.
So what you said when you sat down was absolutely perfect, that the timing could not have been
better.
Well, tell everybody what you do, Michael.
Well, thank you.
I'm, for a black, for a better term, a medical detective.
I've spent my whole career tracking infectious diseases down, trying to stop them, trying
to understand where they come from so we can make sure they don't happen in the first place,
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