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Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers.

On Friday, January 31st, a number of important data sets and pages on the website of the

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went down. Researchers, public health workers,

and citizens could no longer find information related to infectious disease, environmental

health, and adolescent health. In today's episode, a conversation with Dr. Nirov Shah, a member of the

advisory committee to the director of the CDC and co-chair of the advisory committee's data

and surveillance work group. He speaks to me about the critical work of the CDC, the value of

those agency data sets, and the questions being asked about what's going on.

Just to note that Dr. Josh Sharfstein, producer, and regular podcast host is also a member of

this advisory committee and a co-signer of the letter mentioned in this episode.

As always, these podcasts are a conversation between the participants and do not represent

the position of Johns Hopkins

University. Let's listen. Dr. Shaw, thank you so much for joining us on public health on call.

How are you doing? I'm doing well. Thank you. So nice to meet you, Lindsay. Nice to meet you, too.

So tell us a little bit about your background and what you're doing now. I'm a general internist by training with some public health experience as well.

I've served as the Health Commissioner of New York State.

I've been the chief operating officer for Kaiser Permanente in Southern Cal.

And most recently for the last few years, I've been on the faculty at Stanford University

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