The Formula for Better Health - How to Save Millions of Lives--Including Your Own

The formula to stop invisible killers—an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic—from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.

In
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 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 17th-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 America’s largest outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis, what caused the deadliest mistake during the Covid pandemic, and why we ignore fatal warnings. Most importantly, you’ll find out how to stop today''s leading killers.

Drawing from real-world successes and failures,

About the author

Dr. Tom Frieden helped stop deadly outbreaks in New York City, directed the CDC under President Obama, leading the agency’s response to Ebola and other threats, and is now CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global organization that partners with countries to prevent millions of deaths.

Summary

The formula to stop invisible killers an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Frieden
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9780262050968
• ISBN: 978-0-262-05096-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Public health & preventive medicine, Central / national / federal government policies, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Public health and preventive medicine, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care