He was cited as a hero by the first President Bush and awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor by the second. Yet Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene insists he’s committed crimes against humanity and Tucker Carlson accused him of engineering “the single most devastating event in modern American history.”
Now, Dr. Anthony Fauci is getting the last word in his compelling new autobiography, On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service, an inducement for speaking scientific truth to power, a gripping tale of the cost of doing so and a warning about the price of not doing so.
During more than five decades of public service — 38 as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases — Dr. Fauci maneuvered for more HIV funding during the Reagan administration; pushed George H.W. Bush to expand access to experimental AIDS medicines; worked with Bill Clinton to set up the National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center; teamed up with George W. Bush to set up the global HIV medicine initiative PEPFAR; and served on the national Corona Virus Task Force under Presidents Trump and Biden.
Dr. Fauci joins us to speak about navigating the stormy waters of Washington through the COVID pandemic; the AIDS epidemic and the crises of Ebola, SARS, West Nile and anthrax; negotiating with seven presidents; and the dangers of the politicization of public health.
Dr. Fauci will be in conversation with Dr. Jon LaPook, the Emmy award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. LaPook's work has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning, the CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 60 Minutes, CBS Mornings, Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan and CBS News Radio. LaPook reported extensively on COVID-19 and delivered near-daily updates at the height of the pandemic on the spread of the virus and what was being done to stop it.
LaPook is also professor of medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine where he serves as creator and executive director of the NYU Langone Empathy Project, which seeks to promote a culture of empathy in medicine. The Alliance for Women in Media awarded him a Gracie Award in the News Feature Series category for two groundbreaking 60 Minutes reports on the USA Gymnastics sexual abuse scandal. That same year he was named a George Foster Peabody Awards finalist for his 60 Minutes work on the scandal. In the medical field, LaPook works to weave media and the arts into training, with an eye on enhancing the experience between healthcare professionals and their patients.
Sponsored by
The Betsy and Alan Cohn Foundation
and
William Greenberg Desserts