How to End a Pandemic
The How to End a Pandemic project is a Georgetown University initiative to systematically collect oral histories and insights from people who work in epidemics about how to end epidemics. Our guests come from media, politics, medicine, humanities, the social sciences, public policy, and business to help us answer the question “how can we end pandemics in ways that are smarter, faster, more equitable, and more humane?”
Episodes
8 episodes
Dr. Lenka Benova- Meeting the Particular Health Needs of Women in the Midst of Epidemic Crisis (#7)
Dr. Benova didn’t start off as an infectious disease specialist - Infectious disease research came to her through her work on maternal health during the COVID-19 epidemic. She shares with us her insights into maternal and neonatal health, an...
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Episode 7
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55:25
Jackie Thornhill — Getting Involved in Emergency Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic, How the Pandemic Directly Affected the City of San Francisco, The Importance of Protecting the Most Vulnerable Populations in Times of Crisis (#6)
Jackie Thornhill is a communications, policy, and public relations expert currently serving as a Legislative Aide to San Francisco District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. She has created and executed communications plans for multiple ele...
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Episode 6
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41:53
Gail Carson — Creating a Database of Over a Million Case Records From 1,700+ Sites Across the Globe, Becoming an Infectious Disease Doctor, The Growing Epidemic of Networks, Treating ISARIC as if It Was a Garden (#5)
Quote: “No one institution can possibly do it on their own”Dr Gail Carson is an adult infectious diseases doctor by background who joined the first GOARN (network of institutions preparing and responding to outbreaks) missi...
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Episode 5
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1:11:12
Syra Madad — Working With The NYC’s Special Pathogens Program and the Largest Municipal Healthcare Station in the U.S., The “Slammer”, The Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions on Pandemic Response, Being Pregnant During the Covid-19 Pandemic (#4)
Quote:Syra Madad is an American pathogen preparedness expert and infectious disease epidemiologist. Madad is the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at
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Episode 4
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1:03:40
Magda Robalo — Decolonizing Global Health, Gender Inequality in a Male Dominated Field, “Finding Her Voice” as a Non-Native English Speaker, and Applying Clinical Research to Policy Making in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa (#3)
Quote:Dr. Magda Robalo, WGH Global Managing Director, is an accomplished global health leader, trailblazer, and a leading voice for gender equality and social justice. She embodies a rich blend of technical, political, and...
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Episode 3
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1:30:19
Melody Schreiber — Discovering the Field of Health Journalism, Reporting on Low Birthweight Treatments, Addressing How Climate Change Impacted Arctic Communities, and Framing Stories About Public Health In Ways That Make People Tune In (#2)
Quote: “The big thing back then was; How do we get people to care about health?”Melody Schreiber is a freelance health and science journalist who regularly writes for the Guardian US, The New Republic, Scientific American,...
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Episode 2
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1:15:55
Anna Barry — Going From Photography to Public Health Journalism, The Factors That Go Into How Public Health Officials Inform The Public, Untangling The Threads of Ever-changing Information, Tensions Between State and Local Policy Makers (#1)
Quote: "It became a continious debate over who/what would be impacted by response efforts. Was it worth closing schools to keep businesses open? Only time will tell." From her humble start as a traveling photographer, A...
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Episode 1
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