Dr. Benjamin Park, CDC: speed is of utmost importance

Dr. Benjamin Park is Director of the CDC Division of Global Health Protection that protects Americans against dangerous outbreaks by strengthening partner countries’ capabilities to detect and respond. A personal and early professional epiphany was Benjamin’s role in leading the investigation in 2012 of a fungal meningitis outbreak that struck across America, killing dozens and gravely sickening almost 800. Subsequently—accelerating during Ebola and Covid-19—CDC’s Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) has been a powerful instrument in building capabilities of partner countries, through experts based for extended periods in CDC country offices. That has generated many dramatic stories—the core of the CDC outbreaks campaign—of success in ensuring that bad things do not happen. These are stories that many Americans do not know but deserve to know.

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Dr. Benjamin Park, CDC: speed is of utmost importance is an episode from Take as Directed by CSIS Global Health Policy Center | Center for Strategic and International Studies.

This episode is 33:58 long.

This episode was published on Apr 30, 2026.

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