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b'Dr. Leana Wen joined us this week to explore her personal history and its revelations, laid out in remarkably candid detail in her newly released memoir,\\xa0Lifelines: A Doctor\\u2019s Journey in the Fight for Public Health.\\xa0\\xa0And to speak to the most pressing current challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Her childhood struggles, as a young immigrant Chinese girl living amid insecurity, taught powerful lessons about poverty, race, and health. Her tenure as Health Commissioner in Baltimore, operating in close partnership with the late Congressman Elijah Cummings, opened the way to confront opioid addiction, stigma, maternal and infant mortality, and the acute vulnerabilities of youth. In her new life in the print and cable mediascape, she follows the advice of former Senator Barbara Mikulski: \\u201cdo what you are best at \\u2013 and needed for.\\u201d\\xa0The Biden administration needs to up its game with the public: \\u201cIt\\u2019s not enough just to get the science right.\\u201d It is about values, communication, and public trust. America\\u2019s hardened\\xa0polarization -- surrounding vaccines, masking, and distancing -- is too advanced to fix: it is best to focus on engaging individual by individual. Listen to learn more.\\xa0\\n\\nDr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University. She is a contributing columnist at the Washington Post and a CNN medical analyst. She\\u2019s served as Baltimore\\u2019s Health Commissioner.'