DR. ALI S. KHAN is the former director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In more than twenty years at CDC, his career focused on emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism, and global health security. Now dean of the College of Public Health at the University of Nebraska, he continues this work worldwide to protect communities from all public health threats. Credit: Courtesy of UNMC
WILLIAM PATRICK has collaborated on numerous memoirs with subjects ranging from Academy Award Winner Sidney Poitier to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Adam Steltzner. He is also the author of two well regarded suspense novels dealing with biological threats. Credit: Photo by Carolyn Savarese