Laurie Garrett is one of America's most trusted speakers on public health, infectious disease, and prevention. The only person to win the three P's of journalism—the Pulitzer, the Polk, and the Peabody—she masterfully explains the science behind new threats to global health, and navigates the politics that help,...

David Goldhill watched his father die from infections acquired in a hospital—one of more than 200,000 avoidable deaths caused by medical error every year. In the aftermath, Goldhill wrote Catastrophic Care, a major new book that challenges our fundamental assumptions about the health care system (who it’s for,...

Shannon Brownlee offers counterintuitive solutions to our health care problems. In Overtreated, she exposes wasteful flaws, and argues that too much medicine may be what's crippling our system. Named the #1 economics book of 2007 by The New York Times, Overtreated —and Brownlee's...

Dr. Nancy Snyderman is NBC News' Chief Medical Editor for The Today Show and Nightly News with Brian Williams.  Her reports appear on those two flagship programs as well as on Rock Center with Brian Williams, and on MSNBC and MSNBC.com. Reporting on a wide range of topics affecting our society,...

Richard Heinzl is the founder of the first North American chapter of Doctors Without Borders, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization that has inspired a movement among medical professionals to help the world's most vulnerable populations. Modest and deeply passionate, he shares stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary...

The Indiana Jones of virus hunting, Nathan Wolfe travels the world to track, study, and eradicate the next pandemic before it strikes. One of Time's 100 Most Influential People in the World for 2011, this Viral Storm author draws on his break-through discoveries to tell us where viruses come from, why...

In these hectic times, too often do we try to find a quick-fix to health and wellbeing. Dr. Julia Alleyne—the chief medical officer for the Canadian Olympic Team and the 2015 PanAm games—prescribes exercise and a balanced diet. The trick is that she can integrate that classic advice with any modern lifestyle,...

When biotechnology meets ethics, controversy arises and life itself is often in the balance. Art Caplan masterfully navigates this important debate with perspective, clarity and even wit. As the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Bioethics at New York University...

Gina Kolata demystifies the science of personal health. Kolata's front page New York Times stories—on stem cell research, new cancer treatments, exercise, advances in cloning—have influenced public policy and upended conventional wisdom. In keynotes, she relates it all to the bigger picture: what it...