David Heymann was recently in New Zealand giving public talks on emerging infectious diseases and how global inequality affects their spread and treatment.
He talks with Kim Hill.
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David Heymann is Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, London and Chairman of the Board, Public Health England, UK. Previously he was the World Health Organization's Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment, and Representative of the Director-General for polio eradication. Known internationally as editor of the ID handbook Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, Professor Heymann was recently in New Zealand as a guest of the University of Otago in Wellington, holding public talks in which he discussed emerging infectious diseases, and how global inequality affects their spread and treatment.