Freakonomics, M.D.

16. An Exit Interview with N.I.H. Director Dr. Francis Collins

Dec 17, 2021

26:29

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Do We Have the Capacity to Utilize That Kind of Funding?

02:30

Getting the Funding Right

03:45

Working From Home Challenges - Doctor Collins

02:09

Introduction

3min

How Did You Get Into Medicine?

5min

Do We Have the Capacity to Utilize That Kind of Funding?

3min

How to Fund a Biomedical Research Grant?

2min

Getting the Funding Right

4min

Working From Home Challenges - Doctor Collins

2min

Those Were Really New and Previously Untested Approaches

3min

Accelerating Medicine's Partnership

3min

The Happiest Day of Your Life

6min

The National Institutes of Health is the backbone of health research in the U.S., and Collins has been in charge for more than a decade. Now that he’s stepping down, he ponders the arc of his history-making career, from his leadership of the Human Genome Project to the fight against Covid-19 (not to mention the absolute happiest moment of his life).