"Pandemic and Politics" with Professor Jeffry Frieden and Dr. Tom Frieden

Join two brothers, experts in politics and infectious disease, for a discussion of the political economy of public health. Dr. Tom Frieden is a physician with advanced training in internal medicine, infectious disease, public health, and epidemiology. He is one of the world’s top experts in tuberculosis, tobacco control, and health policy and administration. Professor Jeffry Frieden is Professor of Government and Chair of the Government Department at Harvard University. He specializes in the politics of international monetary and financial relations. Together, the two Friedens will explore the ways politics and economics have changed the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the how pandemic has changed the course of politics. Why has public health become a political football in the United States? Why has global public health become the focus of international conflict?