Episode 16 - Laura Espinosa - Tweet-Based Epidemiology

ECDC: On Air

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Science

5 • 3 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, we speak with Laura Espinosa, Epidemic Intelligence Expert at ECDC, about Epitweetr. This tool allows users to automatically monitor trends of tweets with the aim of detecting public health threats early. It was designed to support public health experts with the early detection of threats from infectious diseases but can be extended to all hazards and other fields of study by modifying the topics and keywords.

You can find more information about Epitweetr here, or see the Epitweetr page on Github.

You can find more information on ECDC here, or follow us on Social Media for the latest news.

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0:00.0	ECDC on air.
0:05.8	The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:09.3	Keeping up to date with European epidemiology.
0:14.5	Hello, welcome and thanks for tuning in to ECDC on air, the podcast for the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
0:21.4	I'm your host Lee, recording from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden.
0:25.0	On today's episode, we're speaking with Laura Espinosa, expert in epidemic intelligence here
0:30.3	at ECDC.
0:31.5	We will be discussing epitweeter, a tool developed here at ECDC that allows us to keep an eye
0:37.0	on possible emerging threats
0:38.3	through social media. But I'll let Lauer tell you all about it.
0:42.3	So today we're joined by Laura Espinoza, expert in epidemic intelligence here at
1:01.3	ECDC.
1:02.1	Laura, welcome.
1:03.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:04.2	Thanks for having me.
1:05.7	To begin with, can you tell us a little bit about your background and how you came to
1:09.1	ECDC?
1:10.3	Sure.
1:16.7	So I'm a veterinarian by training, and already in the early years at the university, I got interested in this one health initiative that basically pushed together health of
1:23.1	animals, humans, and environment. So due to that, and as I said, being a vet, I started doing some internships in the animal
1:31.5	and environmental health.
1:33.2	But at some point, I wanted to cover all these pillars.
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