CRISIS AVERTED The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks

Epidemiologist Rivers offers a compelling reminder of how important it is to study epidemics and other threats to public health. Though government funding is minimal and rises and falls with politics, the work of public health scientists, practitioners, and policymakers has repeatedly saved millions of people from diseases and other threats to health. The author's conversational writing is served well by narrator Jaime Lamchick's comfortable connection with this material. Her flawless interpretations and appealing tone are easy to hear, modulating just enough to signal a change in the intensity of the subject matter. She never lets her outsized dramatic skills upstage the content. For anyone doubting the importance of funding the WHO and the CDC, this is an essential audiobook, narrated with conviction. [Published: JANUARY 2026]