BONUS EPISODE: Pandemic Perspectives with Sue Desmond-Hellmann

<p>Over the next several weeks <em>Distillations</em> will be talking to people who have special insight into the coronavirus crisis—biomedical researchers, physicians, public health experts, and historians. </p> <p>In this episode we speak with Sue Desmond-Hellmann, an oncologist who worked with HIV patients in San Francisco in the 1980s during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. She was also the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation up until December 2019. Desmond-Hellmann tells us about her experiences working as a doctor during the HIV/AIDS epidemic and as a CEO of the Gates Foundation during the Ebola pandemic. She also discusses what we learned from HIV and Ebola that can help us in fighting COVID-19. </p> <p><a id="credits" name="credits"></a></p> <h2>Credits</h2> <p><strong>Hosts:</strong> <a href= "https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/alexis-j-pedrick">Alexis Pedrick</a> and <a href= "https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/elisabeth-berry-drago">Elisabeth Berry Drago</a><br /> <strong>Senior Producer:</strong> <a href= "https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/mariel-carr">Mariel Carr</a><br /> <strong>Producer:</strong> <a href= "https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/rigoberto-hernandez">Rigoberto Hernandez</a><br /> <strong>Researcher:</strong> <a href= "https://www.sciencehistory.org/profile/lisa-a-grissom" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Lisa Grissom</a><br /> <strong>Image:</strong> by Krista Kennell/Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit.</p>