A future without pandemics? with Mark Smolinski

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In 2011, when medical doctor and epidemiologist Mark Smolinski was working as a science advisor for the blockbuster film “Contagion,” the film ran a campaign that asked communities: “What are you gonna do to prepare for the next pandemic?” A decade later, as the president of Ending Pandemics–a social venture that aims to predict, detect, and prevent disease outbreaks on our planet– Mark is still thinking about how we can rid the world of pandemic disease. In this episode, Mark shares why we use big data to track disease, explains how our interconnected ecosystems shape public health, talks about why ending pandemics is an achievable goal, and argues that local communities are the ones who can lead the way in understanding–and preventing–the spread of illness.

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0:00.0	Have you listened to Talk Radio recently?
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0:25.0	from the airwaves.
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0:35.0	Welcome to the Ted interview.
0:36.0	I'm your host, Stephen Johnson.
0:38.0	A few weeks ago, President Biden triggered a small controversy
0:42.0	during an off-the-cuff interview on 60 minutes
0:45.0	by remarking that the COVID pandemic was over.
0:48.0	But one thing that might have got lost in the sound bite
0:51.0	was Biden stressing that the fight against COVID continues.
0:55.0	Our guest this week, Mark Spolensky,
0:58.0	has been a major participant in that fight.
1:00.0	But he's also devoted much of his career
1:02.0	to an even more ambitious goal,
1:05.0	not just ending the current pandemic,
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