Rapport special correspondent (and RA Capital Strategic Counsel) Sarah Reed sat down with RA Capital Head of Infectious Diseases Mario Barro, PhD, to discuss his circuitous journey from growing up in Havana, Cuba, to nuclear physics in the USSR, to becoming RA Capital’s head of infectious diseases and GIVAX’s chief executive.

I learned in Cuba that the CDC’s strength is not in politics but in its people and their integrity. That lesson is as urgent today as it was in 1993. If we drain its strength, the price will be paid not in headlines, but in actual lives.