Appearances

September 11, 2025

Think with Krys Boyd: Why Too Many People Die Too Young

Dr. Tom Frieden discusses Americans dying from preventable diseases, CDC's role in public health, and...

September 8, 2025

How pregnant women can navigate Tylenol-autism concerns

Pregnant women who are alarmed about the potential link between Tylenol use and autism should...

August 28, 2025

Former CDC Head Tom Frieden on firing of CDC Chief

Former CDC director Tom Frieden worries about the spread of false and inaccurate health information...

August 27, 2025

U.S. health policy and the risk of a ‘severe flu season’ in Canada

It’s a predictable pattern. As kids return to schools and daycares, and Canadians begin to...

August 22, 2025

Covid Vaccine Opponent Tapped to Lead Federal Review Team

Panel members have been given a broad mandate, despite pleas from C.D.C. employees asking Robert...

August 7, 2025

Public Health

Dr. Tom Frieden has served as Director of the CDC and as Commissioner of the...

August 2, 2025

Latest warning! Will there be insufficient wards due to extreme heat?

Climate change threatens global health through extreme heat, expanding vector-borne diseases, and worsening chronic conditions....

July 31, 2025

When prevention replaces treatment as a common sense, what policies do we still need to protect public health?

Good public health policies enable healthy choices. Tom Frieden discusses sugar taxes, trans fat elimination,...

July 27, 2025

Health Talk | Health is a win-win, global cooperation is needed for a healthier world: former U.S. CDC director

"Health is not a win-lose situation. Health is a win-win situation. When other countries are...

July 16, 2025

What’s in the 25-Year-Old Report Kennedy Cited When Dismantling ACIP?

When HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed all 17 members of the CDC's Advisory...

July 15, 2025

At Senate hearing, anti-vaxxers seek to capitalize on friends in high places

For nearly a decade, anti-vaccine activists and film producers have been collecting tragic, mostly unverifiable...

June 16, 2025

Former CDC director Tom Frieden on the Trump administration’s relentless attack on public health

We Are Less Safe, Plain and Simple’ Former CDC director Tom Frieden on the Trump...

July 23, 2024

The Doctor’s Art: A Resolve to Save Lives with Tom Frieden

A former Director of the CDC and former Health Commissioner of New York City shares...

September 23, 2023

How can the world build back better public health after COVID?

Gzero Media | Every year, over ten million people globally die from high blood pressure,...

September 18, 2023

Global polio eradication effort struggles with the end game

Science Magazine | In 1988, a collection of health and nonprofit organizations launched a vaccination...

July 5, 2023

Taking Stock of COVID-19 (with Dr. Tom Frieden)

In The Bubble With Andy Slavitt | Three years after the start of the pandemic,...

October 25, 2022

The epidemics we stopped

POLITICO Pulse | Nearly three years into the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report from Resolve...

September 22, 2021

Former CDC director calls for accurate vaccine verification system

Fox News | Mexican Sen. Lilly Tellez discusses the alleged infiltration of cartels in the...

September 3, 2021

Will the world ever be able to move beyond the coronavirus?

Al Jazeera | The former director of the CDC talks about the Delta variant, booster...

May 20, 2020

CBS This Morning: Guidelines for reopening

Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC director and the president and CEO of global health initiative...

September 11, 2025