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Dr Susan Desmond-Hellmann’s remarkable career includes leadership positions in the pharmaceutical industry, academia, and global public health. In this One-on-One interview with Medscape Editor-in-Chief Eric Topol, she talks about the many chapters of her career, focusing on the launch of a “precision public health” movement in her current role as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“The way that I think about precision public health is going from N equals 1—right therapy for the right patient at the right time—to 1 of N, the way a population-health person would think of it. This community, this population, this subpopulation needs a package of interventions, and the public health department, the Ministry of Health, is thinking about interventions at a community and population level, so you have the right set of interventions for the right population in the right geography. It’s a pretty big move from one to the other. But for me, right now, it’s about as inspiring as anything I’ve spent time on”, said Dr Hellman during the interview.

Source: Medscape