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Ambassador Deborah Birx is the US Global AIDS Coordinator and in charge of the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the US Government's engagement with the Global Fund. She is also the US Special Representative for Global Health Diplomacy and aligns the government's diplomacy with foreign assistance programmes on global health issues.

In this episode of “Intention to Treat,” some of the people who have worked closely with “America’s Doctor,” Anthony Fauci, offer insights into his character, values, accomplishments, and adventures over his decades of service at the NIH.

Deborah Birx, who was the White House coronavirus response coordinator under President Donald Trump, has told a congressional inquiry that at least 129 000 lives could have been saved if his administration had provided adequate testing and properly communicated the gravity of the situation to the public. ” “If we had fully implemented the mask mandates, the reduction in indoor dining, the getting friends and family to understand the risk of gathering in private homes, and we had increased testing, then we probably could have decreased fatalities by 30-40%.” Birx, a physician specialising in HIV/AIDS immunology, vaccine research, and global health, who previously led the president’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, was one of the administration’s leading optimists in April 2020, according to White House sources reported in the media.

This dialogue offers a transnational perspective on the emergence of public health officials (PHOs) as celebrities during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on scholarship on public health rhetorics (e.g., Keränen, 2014; Malkowski & Melonçon, 2019) and on our experiences of living through the ongoing pandemic as well as observing its effects in Australia, Canada, China, and the United States, we focused our discussion on our local contexts; key public health celebrities who emerged in those contexts; changes in public reaction to those figures over time; and why the celebrification of public health figures is of interest to scholars in rhetoric of health and medicine. We close by reflecting on how our transnational discussion of public health celebrities has reshaped our understanding of celebrification in health and outline key areas of future collaboration and inquiry. 

A family in west Texas is mourning the loss of a young child tothe largest measles outbreak in 30 years; health officials in thestate saying there are now at least 124 measles cases across ninecounties. With Republicans controlling every lever of power inWashington, Democrats still searching for an exit from the politicalwilderness; but they think scenes like this one are going to help themturn the tables. Legendary Academy Award winner Gene Hackman and hiswife found dead in their New Mexico home. The Supreme Court hearing acase of alleged reverse discrimination; how the justices may beleaning after hearing arguments this week. GUESTS: Mike Dubke, Deborah Birx, Brad Schneider