Meet Chicago’s New Public Health Commissioner, Olusimbo ‘Simbo’ Ige – WTTW (Chicago)

“We have emergencies, and with emergencies come a surge of funding and then when emergencies are declared to have ended, the funding goes away with it, but our public health challenges remain,” Ige said. “We are advocating very strongly for a more flexible kind of funding that can provide us the opportunity to respond to all of the needs, not just one infectious disease at a time.”