Dr. Atul Gawande on the coronavirus crisis in India
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, is a surgeon, writer, and public health leader. He is a practicing endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is the founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. He is also a founder of CIC Health, which is accelerating the scale up of COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution nationally. From 2018-2020, he was CEO of Haven, the Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase health care venture.
In addition, Atul has been staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1998 and written four New York Times best selling books: Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. He is the winner of two National Magazine Awards, AcademyHealth’s Impact Award for highest research impact on healthcare, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Lewis Thomas Award for writing about science.
Areas of expertise:
Vaccine development
Vaccine distribution
COVID-19 testing
Public health measures
Dr. Gawande in the News
Yahoo Finance: Dr. Atul Gawande on Vaccine Availability
Dr. Atul Gawande discusses vaccine availability with Yahoo Finance's Anjalee Khemlani.
GZERO: The COVID-19 Vaccination Race
Dr. Atul Gawande joins GZERO World with Ian Bremmer.
PBS NewsHour: Slowing the spread of new COVID strains by changing public attitudes toward vaccinations
Dr. Atul Gawande discusses vaccine distribution, new strains, and ongoing challenges.
Dr. Atul Gawande Joins the Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Dr. Gawande discusses the coronavirus vaccine rollout, what Minot, North Dakota’s outbreak reveals about the pandemic, and his thoughts on schools reopening without vaccinated teachers.
The World: Processing grief, embracing hope
Dr. Atul Gawande speaks with The World’s Marco Werman about what it means to be human in this precarious moment
PBS: COVID Vaccines: Ask the Experts
Dr. Atul Gawande joins Dr. Anthony Fauci on PBS Virtual Town Hall to discuss COVID-19 vaccinations.
MSNBC: Doctor calls for ‘national comprehensive plan’ on virus
Dr. Atul Gawande joins MSNBC's Morning Joe to discuss COVID-19 vaccines and national planning.
ABC News: Dr. Atul Gawande on COVID response
Dr. Atul Gawande discusses the need for transparency, learning, and leadership during COVID-19 on ABC's This Week.
NPR: Member Of Biden’s Coronavirus Advisory Board On What Could Be Done To Fight Pandemic
Dr. Atul Gawande on proposals that he hopes to offer.
Boston Globe: As virus cases spike, calls for a nationwide mask mandate accelerate
Dr. Atul Gawande comments on the need for universal mask-wearing.
CIC Health and Ariadne Labs announce the Assurance Testing Alliance
Platform to help expand COVID-19 testing access nationwide.
WNYC’s The Brian Lehrer Show: Solving the ‘Coronavirus Test Mess’
Dr. Atul Gawande joins WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show to discuss the need to improve and scale testing in the US.
MSNBC: Dr. Atul Gawande joins All In with Chris Hayes
Dr. Atul Gawande on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes to talk COVID-19.
Advisory Board: How America can fix coronavirus testing—fast
The Advisory Board's Daily Briefing on Dr. Atul Gawande's latest New Yorker article.
PBS NewsHour: How the U.S. can get coronavirus testing where it needs to be
Dr. Atul Gawande joins PBS NewsHour's Amna Nawaz to discuss his plan for how testing can be improved.
NPR: Masks Are Even More Important Than We Thought
Dr. Atul Gawande spoke with NPR about why face masks remain essential in dealing with the coronavirus.
Boston Globe: Wearing a face mask with a valve? It might be time to find something else, some experts say
Dr. Atul Gawande is quoted in this Boston Globe article on the dangers of wearing a face mask with a valve.
Advisory Board: 5 strategies to safely reopen America, according to Atul Gawande
An overview of Dr. Atul Gawande's latest New Yorker piece on the five strategies to safely reopen America.
PBS NewsHour: As restrictions are lifted, how to apply lessons from health care workers to daily life
Dr. Atul Gawande joins Judy Woodruff to discuss how to control virus spread as daily activities resume.
CNN: On GPS: How a Boston hospital guarded against Covid-19
Dr. Atul Gawande on how attentive screening and rigorous hygiene at a Boston hospital have yielded results that could inspire us all
The New Yorker: Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, a Regimen for Reëntry
Atul Gawande discusses how health-care workers can teach us about the safest way to lift a lockdown in The New Yorker.
The Week: There’s another way to fight coronavirus
Atul Gawande's global response research featured in The Week
