Dr. Deborah Birx -- Leading the Pandemic Response

<p>In 2019, as Dr. Deborah Birx was preparing PEPFAR budgets, she was looking at rich county-by-county infectious disease data in sub-Saharan Africa when word began circulating of a novel virus that could threaten the globe.  A few months later, as she moved into her role as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, she was able to take the  lessons she learned from years of experience in global health and brought them to the U.S. pandemic response.</p><p><strong>Related</strong></p><ul><li><a href="http://www.bushcenter.org/pepfar">Oral History of PEPFAR</a></li><li><a href="http://www.bushcenter.org/globalhealth">Global Health at the Bush Center</a></li><li><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/silent-invasion-deborah-birx?variant=40153410043938&utm_source=search&utm_medium=advt&utm_campaign=SilentInvasion_GS&maas=maas_adg_E0B6E29291E5B3DD6EFAE5150EC9DF46_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&gclid=CjwKCAjwjtOTBhAvEiwASG4bCGmmJsm7Ujao6sCEOFeL5tVH1RkYAxO23X0-h2Lc7wMBGVRPGtUkdBoCfQoQAvD_BwE">Silent Invasion, published by Harper Collins</a></li></ul>