Umbob safian, former editor of fast company and founder of masters of scale rapid response talks to jeremy ferra. Ferrar is a doctor who spent decades in the trenches researching and fighting viruses from bird flue to sars to abola. He also stresses that mental health is among the biggest risks the planet faces to day. Chavon gordon leads diversity recruiting at capital one - she's not just thinking about how many black or latinec people there are but why it's this way. We'll hear about her perspective on our next mission later in the show.
Sir Jeremy Farrar is UK’s pre-eminent scientific authority on Covid-19 and the chief executive at the research foundation Wellcome Trust. He joins Rapid Response to discuss the latest learnings of the Omicron variant – and offers a framework for reacting to the uncertainty. Farrar, whose research specializes in infectious diseases, also shares the two most important leadership lessons he’s learned during the pandemic: find time for yourself, and take warnings seriously. “Humanity often finds ways of going through some really bad periods to get to a good place. And I think we're going through a bad period at the moment,” Farrar says.
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