The Next Pandemic

John M. Barry, Distinguished Scholar at the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research, is the author of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Viking, 2004), a study of the 1918 pandemic that was named by the National Academies of Science the year's outstanding book. He has advised both the Bush and Obama administrations, as well as other federal, state and World Health Organization officials on influenza outbreaks. Barry serves on the advisory committees of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School for Public Health and MIT's Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals.