In this powerful and historic conversation, we sit down with Professor. Keshia M. Pollack Porter, the first Black Dean and only the second woman to lead the #1 school of public health in the USA, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in more than a century.

This is the beginning of a new vision for public health, leadership, and the next generation of change-makers.

The Dean opens up about her early life, her academic journey, and the leadership lessons that shaped her rise within one of the world’s most influential public health institutions.

What does it take to move from clinical work to shaping global policy? In this episode of Global Health Uncensored, we sit down with a leading health economist and former senior advisor to multilateral institutions who now leads global impact measurement at one of the world’s largest companies.

She shares how her early medical training in Nigeria shaped her systems thinking, how she navigated career pivots into health economics and policy, and what it really means to drive change in complex institutions.

Former CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden joins us to discuss what the world must do now to prevent the next pandemic.

From lessons learned during COVID-19 to actionable steps for global health security, this conversation reveals what it takes to protect lives and strengthen health systems worldwide.

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