119 - Checking In with Dr. Emily Gurley on COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This week, we're checking in with guests we interviewed earlier in the pandemic. Today, Stephanie Desmon gets an update from Dr. Emily Gurley about contact tracing as a strategy for slowing the spread of COVID-19 and what is still needed for contact tracing to be successful in the US. Gurley also talks about a new course that will help tracers and organizers build programs and evaluate their impact.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:13.3	Our focus is the novel coronavirus. I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member of Johns Hopkins,
0:18.9	and also a former secretary of Maryland's
0:21.4	health department. Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand
0:27.3	today's news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow. If you have questions,
0:32.7	you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:43.5	This new podcast has been downloaded more than 1.5 million times over the past five months,
0:49.0	thanks to listeners like you.
0:50.8	Next week, we'll be launching season two of the podcast, bringing you more evidence and experience
0:55.8	about a broader range of topics, including but not limited to COVID-19. This week, we're
1:01.7	checking in with some of the people we interviewed in some of our most powerful episodes from
1:06.2	season one. Today, Stephanie Desmond speaks to Emily Gurley, a Johns Hopkins epidemiologist who developed a wildly
1:13.4	popular course on contact tracing and has a new one coming out soon. They discuss the desperate need
1:19.4	for better contact tracing and the real challenges preventing contact tracing from having the
1:24.6	impact it could in stemming the transmission of COVID-19.
1:29.7	Let's listen.
1:31.2	Thank you so much for joining me.
1:33.1	It's my pleasure, Stephanie.
1:35.0	We last spoke about contact tracing a while back now.
1:38.6	So could you please remind our listeners what it is and why it's so important during COVID?
1:44.6	Sure. Contact tracing is a tried and true public health strategy whereby you find people who are
1:55.1	infected and ask them to change their behavior so that they don't infect others. And you find the people that they've had
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