Former CDC Director Tom Frieden presents The Formula for Better Health

A Cappella Books and Georgia Center for the Book welcome Dr. Tom Frieden, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and current CEO of Resolve to Save Lives to Holy Trinity Parish Episcopal Church in honor of his new book, The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own, which explains the formula to stop invisible killers—an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic—from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US. He will be in conversation with Katie Fullerton. This event, which will be at Holy Trinity Parish Episcopal Church, is free and open to the public. We do encourage registration. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the venue.

About the Book
In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named “the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop” by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg—reveals how to defeat the world’s deadliest diseases.

Drawing from decades leading New York City’s health department after 9/11, directing the CDC during the Ebola epidemic, and fighting tuberculosis and other lethal threats in India and around the world, Frieden combines compelling stories with insider knowledge to show you how to win the battle for health.

In this book, you will step into laboratories that solve mysteries and expose deadly deceptions. You’ll meet a trailblazing epidemiologist who survived a Nazi concentration camp, a seventeenth-century cloth merchant who discovered public health’s superpower, and a brilliant Irish doctor knighted for unlocking the cure for tuberculosis. You’ll also learn how disease detectives ended the largest outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the United States, what caused the deadliest mistake during the COVID pandemic, and why we ignore urgent medical warnings. Most importantly, you’ll find out how to stop today’s leading killers.

Using critical insights from real-world successes and failures, The Formula for Better Health bridges the lethal gap between scientific knowledge and life-saving action. Whether you want to protect your own health, safeguard your community, or solve seemingly impossible health challenges—or all three—this book offers realistic hope and a clear path to a healthier future.

About the Author
Dr. Tom Frieden helped stop deadly outbreaks in New York City, directed the CDC under President Obama while leading the agency’s response to Ebola and other threats, and is now CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global organization that partners with countries to prevent millions of deaths.

About the Moderator:

Katie Fullerton is an experienced public health professional with a career spanning hands-on outbreak investigations, national and international disease surveillance, and leadership in system and data modernization. She has 24 years (2001 to 2025) of professional experience and expertise in holding space for transformative public health work focused on translating complex outbreak and surveillance data into actionable solutions to prevent problems and strengthen responses across our public health ecosystem. She retired from the CDC in August 2025, after 21 years. Katie's time outside of work is spent open water swimming, hiking (multi-day trips preferred), kayaking, camping, learning more about my family ancestry, drawing, painting, or collaging, exploring the history of single subjects (like Salt, Coal, Paper, The Gulf, The Reef), and a spiritual practice based on meditation, somatic therapy, yoga, and community.