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Dr. Deborah Birx served in public health in the U.S. government for more than forty years, working for multiple presidential administrations in that time. A former colonel in the U.S. Army, Dr. Birx spent much of her career researching HIV and working around the globe combatting the pandemics of HIV, TB, and malaria. She has held leadership positions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Institute of Research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the State Department as Ambassador-atLarge and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator as part of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). She is currently a senior fellow at the Bush Institute. She lives in Washington, DC.
Earnest and exhaustive. — New York Times Book Review The best account we have so far of how Trump’s team botched the pandemic response so badly. . . . Significant . . . the book that should be an indispensable resource for future historians. . . . Deborah Birx offers more detail and nuance than anyone else. — The Atlantic There’s an underappreciated quiet heroism in the steadfast bureaucrat who day after day, for months on end, insists on seeking and spreading the truth. With Silent Invasion, Birx shows us she is a person of extraordinary tenacity who, armed with sound data and a deep sense of duty, fought corrupt forces to save lives as best she knew how. — Washington Post In-depth...In Silent Invasion, Birx reveals just how untenable her position was and, more importantly, what changes need to happen in order to win against the COVID-19 pandemic."" — People
