Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds
Guest: Dr. Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard Medical School; Co-Founder and Chief Strategist of Partners In Health; Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston; author of "Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History"
Paul Farmer, a co-founder of Partners in Health, anthropologist, and acclaimed medical doctor, was one of the first international responders to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Successful treatment of Ebola hinges on the tension between controlling the spread of the disease and care for those who've already contracted the disease. Care is often seen as too expensive in poor countries and containment can't happen without proper PPE. One of Dr. Farmer's patients challenged him to write down the stories from the frontlines. Their stories have lessons for us in the current pandemic.

How to Wipe a Disease Off the Earth
Guest: Walter Orenstein, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Emory University School of Medicine and Director, Emory-UGA Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS)
Thanks to modern medicine and vaccines, there’s a very good chance that you’ve never met anyone who has suffered from polio or the black plague, but that doesn’t mean the disease is truly gone. Actually eradicating a disease is incredible difficult, and we talk to Dr. Walter Orenstein to find out why.