# Craig Spencer, MD: Running toward the crisis: Part 1

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Podcast: [20-Minute Health Talk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/20-minute-health-talk-1374696)
Published: 2026-06-17T12:03:00+00:00
Episode link: https://northwell.podbean.com/e/craig-spencer-running-toward-the-crisis-20-minute-health-talk-part-1/
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Duration seconds: 1424

## Resource

Craig Spencer, MD, ER physician, global health leader and public health professor at Brown University, shares his remarkable story, spanning his childhood dreams of “sharkology” to the front lines of the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak.

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