Episode 30 - Joana Gomes Dias - The Answers in Numbers
ECDC: On Air
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
5 • 3 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
How much information can we get from raw health data? Why are statistics so important for our collective health?
We spoke with Joana Gomes Dias, ECDC's expert in Biostatistics, about the important role data can play. In one example, Joana explains the direct impact of COVID-19 patients' health data on state-adapted vaccination policies.
If you would like to know more about the data ECDC uses, you can find it here.
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| 0:00.0 | ECDC on air. |
| 0:05.2 | The podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. |
| 0:08.8 | Keeping up to date with European Epidemiology. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello and welcome to this podcast. |
| 0:16.8 | My name is Katrin and I am your host for today's episode of ICDC on air. |
| 0:21.9 | This is the podcast of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, which is recorded |
| 0:26.5 | from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 0:29.4 | In this episode, we are going to talk about how we CDC uses statistics in public health and |
| 0:34.6 | surveillance. |
| 0:35.5 | What are these statistics, how they are used, how and why |
| 0:38.9 | ECDC works with them? These are the topics of our discussion today. With us today, we have Joanna Gomez-Jas, expert in biostatistics at the CDC. |
| 1:02.5 | Good morning, Joanna. |
| 1:03.9 | Thank you, Catherine. Good morning. |
| 1:06.1 | And thank you for having me here. |
| 1:08.1 | First, I would like to ask you to tell us more about yourself. What is your |
| 1:12.1 | background? I'm from Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, and I've been working as a |
| 1:18.3 | statistician in epidemiology and public health in the last 16 years. Regarding my background, |
| 1:24.4 | I got my first degree in math and then a specialization in statistics |
| 1:29.6 | and modeling. During that, I was fascinated by its applications to health data, and I was working |
| 1:37.1 | at the Public Health Department of the Northern Region of Portugal in various health problems. |
| 1:43.1 | Working with public health professionals and epidemiologists, |
| 1:47.6 | soon I realized that I was missing an important piece that was the knowledge in epidemiology. |
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