Thinking Big in Public Health, Inspired by the End of Smallpox
Channel: KFF Health News
Date: 2023-09-14

Join an online conversation led by Céline Gounder, physician-epidemiologist and host of “Eradicating Smallpox,” Season Two of the Epidemic podcast. The docuseries explores the parallels between the campaign to end a centuries-old disease and the challenges public health faces today.



At noon ET on Sept. 14, Gounder and guests will come together for a live web event.


In Conversation With Host Céline Gounder


Helene D. Gayle, a physician and epidemiologist, is president of Spelman College. She is a board member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and past director of the foundation's HIV, TB, and Reproductive Health program. She spent two decades with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focusing primarily on HIV/AIDS prevention and global health.


William H. “Bill” Foege is an epidemiologist and a physician, and was a leader in the campaign to end smallpox during the 1970s. Foege is featured in Episodes 2 and 5 of the “Eradicating Smallpox” docuseries.


KFF Health News is a program of KFF, the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism, with a mission to serve as a nonpartisan source of information for policymakers, the media, the health policy community, and the public. KFF Health News was formerly known as Kaiser Health News, or KHN.