For the March Learn with the League program, “What a Difference 100 Years Makes! Epidemics Then and Now”, our featured speaker was Dr. Mike Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, who will gave his insight into the recovery phase of Covid and shared thoughts on how to plan for future events.

To view the program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Wa_gvhw7Q

Dr. Osterholm is Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, a professor in the Technological Leadership Institute, College of Science and Engineering, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, all at the University of Minnesota. In November 2020, Dr. Osterholm was appointed to President-elect Joe Biden's 13-member Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board. He is the author of the New York Times best-selling 2017 book, Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs, in which he not only details the most pressing infectious disease threats of our day but lays out a nine-point strategy on how to address them, with preventing a global flu pandemic at the top of the list.

Some mentioned items:

Osterholm Update podcast: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/osterholm-...

2025 Minnesota Senate Bill 2669: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/text...

• Senate Health and Human Services, hearing 3/27/25 starting at 8:30 am.