TY - JOUR T1 - Q&A: Former CDC director takes on epidemics, cardiovascular disease in new global initiative: Tom Frieden assumes lead on Resolve to Save Lives project JF - The Nation's Health JO - Nations Health SP - 5 LP - 5 VL - 47 IS - 9 AU - Julia Haskins Y1 - 2017/11/01 UR - http://www.thenationshealth.org/content/47/9/5.abstract N2 - Since stepping down as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January, Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, has been busy with a new global public health initiative, Resolve to Save Lives. The purpose of the initiative is twofold: Resolve to Save 100 Million Lives aims to reduce cardiovascular disease, while Resolve to Prevent Epidemics will target infectious disease epidemics. Over the course of the five-year program — funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — Resolve to Save Lives will implement best practices in low- and middle-income countries to curb preventable deaths. The Nation’s Health spoke with Frieden, an APHA member, about what to expect. ER -