
Podcast: Ep549: Why You Should Care About Public Health
September 19, 2025
Author(s): CNN Podcasts
Podcast: Chasing Life
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Public health is, in the words of this weekās guest, āthe organized actions of society to make people safer and healthier.ā Unfortunately, to some, it feels like the country is waging a war against the very institutionsĀ entrusted to carry out that mission. Dr. Sanjay Gupta sits down with public health expert and former CDC director Dr. Thomas Frieden about the critical and often-invisible role of public health, and what he hopes to accomplish with his new book, The Formula For Better Health.
This episode was produced by Andrea KaneĀ
Showrunner: Amanda Sealy Ā
Senior Producer: Dan BloomĀ
Technical Director: Dan DzulaĀ
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CNN
All over the world, there are people who are living extraordinary lives, full of happiness and health ā and with hardly any heart disease, cancer or diabetes. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been on a decades-long mission to understand how they do it, and how we can all learn from them. Scientists now believe we can even reverse the symptoms of Alzheimerās dementia, and in fact grow sharper and more resilient as we age. Sanjay is a dad ā of three teenage daughters, he is a doctor - who operates on the brain, and he is a reporter with more than two decades of experience - who travels the earth to uncover and bring you the secrets of the happiest and healthiest people on the planet ā so that you too, can Chase Life.