Este Geraghty: The Importance of Mapping Diseases & Health
Dr Este Geraghty is the Chief Medical Officer at Esri, a former Deputy Director of the California Department of Public Health and a certified public health professional; so the perfect person to talk about how we map diseases, health and all the support around medical care. Este also wrote a book about the learning of mapping applied to covid, which we discuss.
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Shownotes
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John Hopkins Covid map (discontinued)
Este's book: Learnings from Covid-19 (Amazon Affiliate)
Book & Podcast recommendations:
Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner (Amazon Affiliate)
Timestamps
(00:00) - Introducing Este
(02:52) - Este describing herself
(03:25) - How do you describe the work that you do?
(05:43) - Why work in Health?
(08:22) - How has being a practitioner helped you?
(11:19) - Communication in public health
(13:53) - Open data vs privacy
(16:47) - Anonymising data
(18:41) - Geography vs GIS: Is there a difference?
(19:39) - The Power of Visualising Data
(21:39) - The Covid Map viewed Trillion of times
(26:28) - Open data, why not also use open tools?
(28:23) - Learnings From Covid-19: Este's Book
(32:01) - Contact Tracing
(36:35) - Role of private sector
(40:42) - Prevention is Hard
(45:30) - Has Covid made it easier to Advocate for Public Health
(48:11) - Funding Going Down as Covid Slowly Stops
(50:52) - End of the Covid Dashboard
(51:52) - Keeping a Positive Mindset
(55:58) - Este's current preoccupations
(58:21) - Satellite Imagery
(01:01:45) - One Health
(01:03:46) - Climate Change
(01:06:41) - Solving Long Term Problems when people struggle today
(01:09:15) - Nomadic Lifestyle as an Executive
(01:12:16) - Not Always Climbing the Career Ladder
(01:15:03) - Reflecting on 1 year of Nomadic Life
(01:18:54) - Book/podcast
(01:21:41) - What does it take to go to 150 (years old)?
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