Former CDC Director on Rebuilding Public Health and Trust in America | Dr. Tom Frieden

We've got a deep hole to dig out of in public health. What I realized about a decade ago is there isn't a good understanding of what public health is, why it's important, and how it could save a lot of lives, including yours. How do we start to restore public trust in public health? Dr. Tom Frieden serves as the director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the CDC and the commissioner of the New York City Health Department.

He's a physician who's advanced training in internal medicine and infectious disease, public health, and epidemiology. And he currently runs Resolve to Save Lives, a nonprofit that addresses the world's deadliest health threats. 100 million Americans don't have a primary care doctor. That's ridiculous.

$4 trillion in healthcare and we can't give this basic thing to a third of the people in this country? That's absurd. The scary data is that 14% of adults and 14% of children are biologically addicted to food, which is actually more people than are addicted to alcohol. So this is a big problem because people can stop smoking, but they can't stop eating.

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