With all of the promise of a covid 19 vaccine it appears we need to be saved from ourselves, to make Covid19 vaccines effective. Doctor Y Bruce Lee is a writer, journalist, professor, systems modeler, computational and digital health expert, and entrepreneur. He will attempt to to explain why many health care workers refuse to get vaccinated and why there seems to be disagreements among health care workers about how effective the vaccines will ultimately be. You can also go to our website to get vaccine information that may save your life.

He has over two decades of experience developing mathematical and computational models. The models assist a wide range of decision makers in health and public health. Currently, he is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. There he is the Executive Director of PHICOR (Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research). Dr. Lee is also the CEO of Symsilico, which develops and uses computational methods, models, and tools to help decision-making.

His previous positions include serving as Associate Professor of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also served as Executive Director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center (GOPC). In addition he served as Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Senior Manager at Quintiles Transnational. There he worked worked in biotechnology equity research at Montgomery Securities, and co-founded Integrigen.

Bruce has authored over 200 scientific publications. This includes over 100 first author and over 65 last author. He is the author of three books. 

Doctor Bruce Y Lee has written extensively for the general media and often addressed the question, will a corona virus vaccine give you your life back? He is a Senior Contributor for Forbes. At Forbes he covers a wide range of health-related topics. These include medicine, wellness, digital health and the business of health and having written over 700 articles.

His writing has also appeared in a number of other media outlets. Most notably these have included Time, The Guardian, the HuffPost, and the MIT Technology Review. His work and expertise have appeared in leading media outlets such as the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, CBS News, Businessweek, U.S. News and World Report, Bloomberg News, Reuters, and National Public Radio (NPR). Dr. Lee received his B.A. from Harvard University and M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of California, San Diego.

In this podcast I asked Dr. Lee, don't we need to be saved from ourselves, to make Covid19 vaccines effective?