Deborah Birx, MD, is a world-renowned medical expert and leader whose career has focused on immunology, infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, vaccine research and global health, recently serving as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator. In her second career she is applying the lessons learned from four decades driving change in the federal government, using data to drive improvements to important private sector endeavors. She is a Bush Institute Senior Fellow, Chief Medical Advisor at ActivePure, Adjunct Professor at Texas Tech University of Health Sciences and author of Silent Invasion (HarperCollins 2022).