505 - Monitoring the Monkeypox Response with Dr. Caitlin Rivers
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Throughout the COVID pandemic, number crunching has been a way to understand and respond to the scope, spread, and spikes of outbreaks. The same goes for monkeypox. Epidemiologist Dr. Caitlin Rivers talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what numbers should be considered to understand the full picture of the monkeypox outbreak and the effectiveness of the response. They also talk about the current limitations within public health to track down and report necessary data.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:17.1 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience |
| 0:22.4 | to illuminate critical public health issues. |
| 0:25.5 | If you have questions or ideas for us, |
| 0:27.4 | please send an email to public health question at jh.h.edu. |
| 0:31.7 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:41.5 | Today, Dr. Caitlin Rivers, an infectious disease epidemiologist and senior scholar at the Johns |
| 0:46.6 | Hopkins Center for Health Security, returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein. |
| 0:51.8 | Their topic is how to measure the response to monkeypox. Let's listen. |
| 0:57.6 | Caitlin Rivers, it's so great to have you back on public health on call. We want to talk about |
| 1:02.4 | monkeypox today and I understand that you have a new substack newsletter where you have been |
| 1:09.9 | writing all about it. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah, I think it's good to be back here with you. |
| 1:13.4 | And I do like to keep my eye on what's going on without breaks. |
| 1:16.2 | So thank you for that. |
| 1:17.6 | So we've talked about different components of monkeypox, |
| 1:20.8 | the international dimension, the communications dimension. |
| 1:25.2 | But you've really been focusing on the numbers. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah, that's right. So I think our goal needs to continue to be containment, which means to me |
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