Episode 41 - Gaetano Marrone - Statistically Speaking
ECDC: On Air
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
5 • 3 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we dig a little deeper into the fascinating world of biostatistics.
Our guide is Gaetano Marrone - an ECDC expert in the field of statistics and its use in public health.
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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. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello and welcome to this podcast. |
| 0:16.9 | My name is Catherine and I'm your host for today's episode of ECDC on air. |
| 0:21.9 | This is the podcast at the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, |
| 0:26.0 | which is recorded from our headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. |
| 0:30.0 | In this episode, we are going to talk about how ECDC use these statistics |
| 0:34.0 | in public health and surveillance. |
| 0:36.6 | What are these statistics? |
| 0:38.3 | How are they used? |
| 0:39.9 | How and why is this he works with them? |
| 0:42.8 | These are the topics of our today's discussion. With us today, we have Gaetano Mahon, who is expert in biostatistics at ECDC. |
| 1:06.0 | Good morning, Gaetano. |
| 1:07.3 | Hello, Catherine. It's a pleasure for me to be here. |
| 1:10.4 | Could you first introduce yourself and tell us |
| 1:12.6 | what led you to work on statistics? I was born and raised in Italy and I have a master in statistical |
| 1:19.3 | and economical sciences and a PhD in public health. When I was young, I was divided between two |
| 1:25.4 | passions, the one for medicine and the one for numbers. |
| 1:29.3 | At the end, I chose to study statistics and economy. |
| 1:33.3 | After the end of the bachelor and master studies, I was given the opportunity to apply statistics to medicine and health, |
| 1:40.3 | doing a PhD in public health. |
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