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Science Talk

Joseph Lange's Campaign against HIV

Science Talk

Scientific American

Science

4.2644 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Seema Yasmin, director of research and education at the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, talks about her book The Impatient Dr. Lange: One Man’s Fight to End the Global HIV Epidemic. Lange was killed five years ago today when flight MH17 was shot down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2019. I'm Steve Merski. On this episode, when I interviewed Doctors

0:41.1

of Yupp's Generation for this book and I was just trying to understand more what it was like,

0:45.3

they would say things to me like, well, you know, Seema, you know what it's like when you're

0:49.4

on a ward and everyone's dying and you don't know why and you haven't got a treatment.

0:54.9

That's Seema Yasmin.

0:56.5

She's the director of research and education at Stanford University's Stanford Health

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Communication Initiative.

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She's a physician and researcher.

1:05.4

She practiced at a British hospital before becoming a disease detective with the USCDC's

1:10.7

Epidemic Intelligence Service,

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and she's also an award-winning journalist and the author of the book, The Impatient Dr. Lange,

1:18.6

one man's fight to end the global HIV epidemic.

1:23.2

Five years ago today, Dr. Lange, Joseph Lange, known to his friends as Yupp, was aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on his way to a major HIV-AIDS conference,

1:35.3

when pro-Russian rebels blew the plane out of the sky, murdering him and everyone else on board.

1:42.3

Yasmin studied and worked with Lang.

1:44.5

She recently visited our offices in New York City, where we talked about the book and other

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