444 - An Update on A National Weather Service Model for Epidemics
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Caitlin Rivers returns to the podcast to talk about her work with the CDC's new Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. Funded through the American Rescue Plan, the Center works with academic and government partners to model potential health threats and monitor outbreaks. Rivers talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about standing up the new center, how omicron gave them an initial test run of analyzing data to brief government leaders on what was to come, and their hopes for eventually creating localized COVID forecasts to help prevent transmission during outbreaks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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| 0:42.3 | Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. And for two years, |
| 0:47.3 | we've brought you COVID-19 in public health news. But the podcast is just one of the ways you can |
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| 1:38.9 | Today, Dr. Caitlin Rivers returns to the podcast. Dr. Rivers is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for |
| 1:45.1 | Health Security, but she's been on leave to work as the associate director of the new Center for |
| 1:50.0 | Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| 1:54.6 | She speaks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about this brand new national effort. Let's listen. |
| 2:00.1 | Dr. Caitlin Rivers, it's great to have you back on |
| 2:03.0 | public health on call. You've been working for the CDC now for a few months, setting up this |
| 2:09.1 | new center for forecasting and outbreak analytics. Thanks for coming. Yeah, it's good to be back. |
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