The MIT Press Book Store Author Signing: Dr.Tom Frieden, The Formula for Better Health

Book Signing: Tom Frieden, The Formula for Better Health Join a drop-in book signing with Dr. Tom Frieden, author of The Formula for Better Health (MIT Press, 2025) at the MIT Press Bookstore on Tuesday, December 2nd between 4:30pm and 5:30pm. In The Formula for Better Health, Frieden—named “the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop” by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg—reveals how to defeat the world’s deadliest diseases. Drawing from decades leading New York City’s health department after 9/11, directing the CDC during the Ebola epidemic, and fighting tuberculosis and other lethal threats in India and around the world, Frieden combines compelling stories with insider knowledge to show you how to win the battle for health. Copies of The Formula for Better Health will be available for purchase at the event. More information about this new MIT Press book: https://theformulaforbetterhealth.net/ Featured in Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Science Friday, Bloomberg, Fortune, PBS NewsHour, Le Monde, the Next Big Idea Club, New York magazine’s the Intelligencer, NPR Open to Debate, and more. “Compelling … powerful and memorable … touching … refreshing …enough to pep up the most hard-bitten cynic …Hope is what The Formula For Better Health is best at giving us with its message that public health still has a place – and an important one – in creating a better world… Exactly what is needed at this moment in time.” —The Lancet “Clear solutions for today’s deadliest health threats." —Elizabeth Kolbert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sixth Extinction "The Formula for Better Health provides unique, critical insight into stopping epidemics and preventing deadly diseases from one of the most successful health leaders in a generation.” —Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Former Chief Medical Advisor to the President of United States; author of New York Times #1 best-selling memoir On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service “A superb book. Read it! The life you save might be your own.” —Cass R. Sunstein, author of Climate Justice and Nudge “A masterclass in improving health at scale. Frieden transforms decades of global experience into actionable insights to protect and improve your health and that of your family, community, our nation and our world.” —Helene Gayle, MD, President Emerita, Spelman College and former President and CEO of the international organization CARE “Based on a masterful distillation of global health victories, Dr. Frieden reveals critical personal and community steps for longer, healthier lives.” —Bill Frist, MD, former United States Senate Majority Leader and co-chair of the Future of Health Advisory Board at the Bipartisan Policy Center “Tom Frieden is the most effective health messenger there is. His book, The Formula for Better Health is succinct, specific, and powerful.” —Dr. Frank Luntz, Political Commentator, Analyst, and Pollster "A powerful guide to better health from one of the world's leading health experts. As we face today's urgent threats, Tom Frieden offers a path forward with trademark clarity and wisdom.” —Vivek Murthy, MD, former Surgeon General of the United States and author of the New York Times Bestseller Together: The Healing Power of Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World