Hello and welcome to this very special episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast. I have Hannah Ritchie with me, which is an absolute pleasure. Hello, Hannah. How are you? I'm good. Thanks. How are you? I'm very good. We're going to talk about vaccines today, but I thought a little introduction would be good. And I know that this is like the most annoying thing and everyone hates introducing themselves but just give us a little bit of background about

you and your job and why you're in like a good position to talk about this.

So I'm a researcher at the University of Oxford and there I'm part of a program called

Aeroid and Data. So it's we basically we run a website

called ourwardsendata.org and we're this kind of weird mix of researchers and like web developers.

And basically what we do is we produce this website where we try to kind of sit between academia

and research and then the general public to basically translate

academic research into something that everyone can understand and present it super clearly

and with nice visuals and everything.

So we do that across like a really wide range of topics from like poverty to climate to

health, population growth, all this stuff.

But obviously over the last year like we've pretty much only been working on coronavirus,

because that's the big story.

So we've basically been tracking data on cases, deaths, infection rates, all of that sort of stuff.

But then, frankly, in the last few weeks weeks we've managed to add a data set which is

vaccinations which is probably the first positive ones that's obviously very exciting but basically

my last year of my life has basically been just looking at coronavirus stuff yeah which must have been

pretty overwhelming in many ways but you like touch on something that's so important then we speak

about this like in checkings and things all the time but how important it is to be able to like

explain the science so that people can understand it because to some extent like what a lot of people

do some science is absolutely amazing if it can't be shared and understood in a way that people

can get their head around then it's almost pointless like and this like the prime example of this

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