Former CDC Director: How to Fix Healthcare

We're discussing healthcare: what's broken, why it stays broken, and how to fix it in CXOTalk episode 911. This is a bit different from our usual focus on technology and AI transformation, but healthcare matters to everyone, and our guest, Dr. Tom Frieden, has unique qualifications.

Dr. Tom Frieden is a former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, former New York City Health Commissioner, and current CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global health organization operating in more than 60 countries. Bloomberg has called him "the most influential public health leader since C. Everett Koop." His new book, The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own (MIT Press), draws on 40 years of frontline experience to lay out a practical framework for building health systems that work.

The timing of this conversation matters. The United States spends more on healthcare than any country in the world and gets worse outcomes. One hundred million Americans lack a primary care doctor. And right now, public health infrastructure is being dismantled at an unprecedented pace: half of all CDC centers have been eliminated, vaccine advisory committees have been reconstituted, and programs that took decades to build have been defunded overnight.

Dr. Frieden has been one of the most prominent voices challenging these cuts. He's also one of the few people in the world who has built the systems he's talking about, from controlling the largest outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis in U.S. history to leading the CDC's response to Ebola to creating hypertension treatment programs that now reach 34 million people globally.

In this episode, we cover the diagnosis, the formula, the dismantling, and the path forward.

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Friday, March 6
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Dr. Tom Frieden is the founder and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global health organization that accelerates action against the world's deadliest health threats. Resolve to Save Lives has worked with governments and other partners in more than 60 countries to save millions of lives. Dr. Tom Frieden previously served as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and New York City Health Commissioner, where he led efforts that increased life expectancy by 3 years and helped end major health crises including the largest US outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, the 2014 West Africa Ebola epidemic, and responses to H1N1, Zika, and other threats.

Michael Krigsman is a globally recognized analyst, strategic advisor, and industry commentator known for his deep business transformation, innovation, and leadership expertise. He has presented at industry events worldwide and written extensively on the reasons for IT failures. His work has been referenced in the media over 1,000 times and in more than 50 books and journal articles; his commentary on technology trends and business strategy reaches a global audience.