281 - The Importance of Genomic Surveillance for COVID-19
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Staying on top of the COVID-19 pandemic means understanding the infectiousness, lethality, and spread of variants of SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Jonathan Quick, managing director for pandemic preparedness and prevention at the Rockefeller Foundation, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about a new report with a vision for tracking variants across the United States and the world.
KEYWORDS: viral mutation; testing methods
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
| 0:27.8 | community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas |
| 0:34.4 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:38.7 | at jhh.edu. |
| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.1 | Today, I speak to Dr. Jonathan Quick, the managing director for pandemic preparedness, |
| 0:52.6 | response, and prevention at the Rockefeller Foundation. |
| 0:56.8 | Our topic is genomic surveillance, why it's important, how to do it well, and why it must |
| 1:02.9 | cover the globe. |
| 1:04.7 | Let's listen. |
| 1:05.7 | Dr. Quick, thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 1:09.3 | You are involved in this new report from the Rockefeller Foundation |
| 1:12.7 | called Getting Ahead of the Pandemic, Accelerating |
| 1:16.0 | National Genomic Surveillance. |
| 1:18.6 | Let me start with a question. |
| 1:20.8 | What are we looking for with national genomic surveillance, |
| 1:24.1 | and why is that important? |
| 1:25.6 | Well, first of all, it's good to be with you, Professor Sharfstein, and look forward to the |
| 1:30.6 | conversation. |
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