The Center for Health and Behavioral Sciences welcomes Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., Epidemiologist, COVID-19 Expert, and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, is a member of President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 Task Force. Hailed by CNN as “the infectious disease expert who has been warning us for a decade and a half that the world will face a pandemic,” he quickly became the go to expert on the public health impact of COVID-19. In his bestselling book, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, Osterholm advocates for a plan to combat “an overwhelming army of deadly, invisible enemies” and lays out a nine-point plan to prevent “the unthinkable from the inevitable.” In addition to Director of CIDRAP, Osterholm currently serves as Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a Professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an Adjunct Professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. He is a frequent consultant to the World Health Organization, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control.

This is a co-sponsored event with the Bryant Honors Program.