Dr. Mark Rosenberg was instrumental in establishing the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and became its first permanent director. He also served as Assistant Surgeon General. He was president and CEO of The Task Force for Global Health from 2000-2016. Under his leadership, The Task Force grew to be one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the country and is instrumental in providing people in the developing world with greater access to vaccines for influenza, cholera, and other deadly diseases, and medicines for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Dr. Rosenberg was an influential voice in persuading the United Nations to recognize road safety as a public health issue. His leadership is characterized by a commitment to collaboration and compassion in global health. He was the lead author of Real Collaboration: What it Takes for Global Health to Succeed, which describes a model for global health collaboration that has been successfully applied to address health needs affecting the world’s most impoverished people.
Show Contagious Conversations, Ep Nine Lessons for the Next Generation - Feb 3, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic will end at some point. But we know that won't be the last one. Another pandemic will certainly hit. The questions are when, where and how bad? Also, will we be ready for it and will we learn from the mistakes made during this pandemic? A new project just being launched is hoping to make sure the problems faced during this pandemic will never happen again. It's called "Becoming Better Ancestors" and it's from The Center for Global Health Innovation. With us now is the project's co-developer, Dr. Mark Rosenberg, CEO Emeritus at the Task Force for Global Health and former Assistant U.S. Surgeon General.
The Health Advocates are joined by Dr. Mark Rosenberg and Maria Thacker Goethe to learn about the Building Better Ancestors project, and their work on improving access to affordable care. Dr. Rosenberg and Maria help us understand public health problems, how we can use past learnings as framework to improve our future,and the steps that can lead us to solutions that promote health equity. “And we've taken nine lessons from the eradication of smallpox, that we think make a really useful framework for thinking about diseases, — whether it's a new pandemic threat, whether it's a chronic disease, or I think it's useful even from the perspective of an individual patient,” says Dr. Rosenberg. Among the Highlights in This Episode: 01:03- Steven and Zoe introduce today’s guests, Dr. Mark Rosenberg and Maria Thacker Goethe from the Center for Global Health Innovation 03:15- Dr. Rosenberg tells us about the Building Better...