The Wilson Quarterly | April 23, 2021
This isn’t what the pandemic planning and playbooks envisioned. Lawrence Gostin, the Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law School says the optimal relationship between scientists and political leaders in a crisis “means having highly respected scientists tell the public honestly what they know and don’t know. And it requires political leaders to support public health professionals and allow them center stage in health education.”