Podcasts about Epidemic Intelligence Service

Your first day at any new job is always a little stressful. But for Julia Petras, the day she started working at CDC was especially high stakes. In this episode of Contagious Conversations, we explore a mysterious outbreak that affected four patients in four months, sickened by a bacteria not seen before in North America. The FBI—and the public—wanted answers. We hear from CDC's Julia Petras, Dr. Jennifer McQuiston and Dr. Eric Pevzner about how the outbreak was solved by disease detectives in the Epidemic Intelligence Service.    Episode Quotes “There is no replacement for shoe-leather epidemiology. You can have all of your advanced biostatistics, your sophisticated software, but it doesn't replace the importance of talking to real people, to being physically there, doing some of that boots-on-the-ground detective work. There is no replacement for that.” — Julia Petras, Regional Epidemiologist, Global Influenza Branch, CDC “As a disease detective, you get to go and figure out how can you help protect people so that you can give people the opportunity to have healthy lives? And there's nothing more rewarding than getting to do that than as a disease detective at CDC.” — Dr. Eric Pevzner, CAPT, U.S. Public Health Service; Chief, Epidemiology and Laboratory Workforce Branch, Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC “I remember I came in on a weekend to pick up some papers from my office and she and her EIS supervisor were holed up in a conference room with a big whiteboard, and they were trying to connect the dots and figure out where to go next and what questions needed to be answered, and they were always trying to pursue getting an answer for that case. And so the tenacity that was required to solve it was really impressive.” — Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, Principal Deputy Director, Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, CDC   To watch the original 1979 interview with Dr. Alexander Langmuir featured in this podcast, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NICfQM9d0CM   For more information and full episode transcripts, go to Contagious Conversations.

In this episode, NETEC's Jill Morgan is joined by Dr. Joshua Wong, an internal medicine physician, an officer with the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and a medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Dengue Branch, to unpack the complexities of dengue and its global impact. As dengue cases reach record highs, they discuss the challenge of differentiating dengue from other illnesses and the crucial need for proper recognition and clinical management. The episode delves into the critical phases of dengue, the importance of accurate diagnosis through testing, and the protocols for managing severe dengue cases. With dengue posing a growing threat beyond traditional tropics, Dr. Wong also explores travel-related risks and prevention strategies and shares educational resources now available for clinicians. Join us for this essential episode to better understand the rising threat of dengue and the measures needed to control and treat it effectively.Questions or comments for NETEC? Contact us at info@netec.org.Visit Transmission Interrupted on the web at netec.org/podcast.GuestDr. Joshua M. Wong, MDMedical Officer, NCEZID/DVBD/Dengue BranchJoshua Wong is a medical officer and epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stationed at the Dengue Branch in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency training in the Global Health Track in Internal Medicine at Stanford University. He served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Dengue Branch. After his fellowship, he remained at the branch to continue working on dengue vaccine activities and support the emergency response to dengue both domestically and abroad.Jill Morgan, RNEmory Healthcare, Atlanta, GAJill Morgan is a registered nurse and a subject matter expert in personal protective equipment (PPE) for NETEC. For 35 years, Jill has been an emergency department and critical care nurse, and now splits her time between education for NETEC and clinical research, most of it centering around infection prevention and personal protective equipment. She is a member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), ASTM International, and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI).ResourcesCDC Dengue Resources: https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/index.htmlCDC Areas with Risk of Dengue: https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/areas-with-risk/index.htmlCDC Dengue Clinical Management Pocket Guide: https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/hcp/pocketguide/index.htmlWHO Dengue Resources: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/dengue-and-severe-denguePan American Health Organization Spanish language resources: https://www.paho.org/es/herramienta-interactiva-algoritmos-para-manejo-clinico-casos-dengueDengue: A Growing Problem With New Interventions

Journalist and medical doctor Seema Yasmin joins us to discuss why misinformation and conspiracy theories about health and wellness are so alluring; how to recognize and fight back against false claims; the difference between misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation; holding the two truths that science is one of the best tools we have for finding facts and science hasn't always gotten it right; and more. Plus, Christy shares an excerpt from the audiobook of The Wellness Trap about wellness mis- and disinformation and how they've come to proliferate online.Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer prize finalist, director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and professor of crisis communication at UCLA. Yasmin served as a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, and a science correspondent for major newspaper and broadcast outlets. She is the author of five books, including What the Fact?! Her reporting appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and other outlets. She received her medical degree from the University of Cambridge and trained in journalism at the University of Toronto.If you like this conversation, subscribe to hear lots more like it! You can also sign up to get it in your inbox each week (with a full transcript) at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.Christy's new book, The Wellness Trap, is now available wherever books are sold! Order it online or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore.If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com/subscribe

Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA, is a board-certified infectious diseases physician and a medical epidemiologist. She began her public health career in 1998 as a member of the CDC's elite Epidemic Intelligence Service. She has served as a foreign diplomat in the Caribbean, an academic researcher, and the former chief medical officer for the DC Medicaid program. Dr. Fitzpatrick is a member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Health Literacy and an Aspen Institute Health Innovator Fellow. She is the founder and CEO of Grapevine Health.

Happy New Year Listeners! In this episode Drs J and Santhosh explore the secret intelligence branch fighting to keep us safe from diseases before they start! Along the way they cover Alexander Langmuir, military and science working together, the infectious avengers, the bill nye of bioterrorism, case files from epidemics, the oswego county exercise, the fellowship curriculum, disease investigation in movies and more! So sit back and relax as we debrief you on gathering disease intelligence!Support Us spiritually, emotionally or financially here! or on ACAST+travelmedicinepodcast.comX/Twitter: @doctorjcomedy @toshyfroTikotok: DrjtoksmedicineGmail: travelmedicinepodcast@gmail.comSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/28uQe3cYGrTLhP6X0zyEhTFacebook: facebook.com/travelmedicinepodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/travelmedicinepodcastFurther Readinghttps://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.42.3.239https://watermark.silverchair.com/144-Supplement_8-S16.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAA34wggN6BgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggNrMIIDZwIBADCCA2AGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMoDNLP5Pd4SAIfaBvAgEQgIIDMaZ7uEAZxG5iRAXMffAHHosAdNs8oCqB0kdTU_TTXnxSBwmBzllYos-U_H-ZpFkAGEQ-PpjZKkeJgts_JyN9kihOcnL_hsT6IhYy-t2ViE4e7wBljs9zIw2bijneQdq_blBWkcs_2X7mJsp7AiHdAeFnPJDNm9TOnHOTG4yMiRUYBEzioFxHxtV4-kaniouMTVuMafAMYl42pEoY-7Ts1kBAUGFtPmlQncFt2gCnmc41cfekAIhzCKS8WM6tTc6cbx_Jyr_ikyHb568NbeP_NQpxuRy6L1TYvoW_Yc2qh8QMg1NRHDNbC1foLSYQ1s-g-2KN_RgykC9Zn9SZXTH5xWimBQ9C0i4thz0NOEHnZbUr4Q0yZ8yc5r0QSYkcYB-Vf5E-_O_2ujNmM2TXvfR5iEliD4boCaO0jeF8fqKoDqQGLdXyd26BifAWgItBPlcodURKq_btxU5dcL3UahGxMiFSKHfsLim5q9WjuFfrLcXWDRb0_7z_TzHtJR0Y4vIyKaMYmBXFH41pqk05_OLfnqo4Il0O9wnqNW6DHXeqWuXin0gf5whhEKqu8li3U6x-UWmBG4DRFedXYtLoGbY4bU0sCp4bIrQiuCjfArHkrouoLlS2n7UbFXmjUF14UiTCJ4xd53DWn1aL12nA_54YPAEMIfGRg7Ou6_opOFQNYZpvhBDadABOZ416B16FNuJ5hfoNG1Fbe3zEsp5AjZVxlO1Z12DIUvLIezinaiffZUTnM459l5JBDzXsyyj3WESc2nLtd5k25XYDg1GU4BaaWPAdDnjx9cMYoJIqwZhJ1p7KliHTDJO4eILRTOUfgTW5Pqk9xw7-BfuFqNJAza_2d4M02enTIfiYMBp46rGnW9s0WzK9XQpeiTR2SuIr8-0PXji2sBtm0Lb0P1S4vX5eonypPBVgk98FNE8UDUkbS5pPmOSDs8eWOyjZBenuLYKupz5SgixvzYNcK_N3DVlPW8yU2tXm5Nkj9MiHxtkzTBLeOgAh1Aegx1jNPm7bmMDeWq_U8tkm3AnNfNkVbDaUzzDF8WZuVLcT4Qewj0vy_pMG8qvw_HENghTM5IMCRNYZZZ8 Supporting us monthly has all sorts of perks! You get ad free episodes, bonus musical parody, behind the scenes conversations not available to regular folks and more!! Your support helps us to pay for more guest interviews, better equipment, and behind the scenes people who know what they are doing! https://plus.acast.com/s/travelmedicinepodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's episode is a recording of a SEVEN Talk from the 2022 Alumni Forum. This talk, given by Bruce Gellin '77, is entitled, “Serendipitous Lessons.” Bruce is the Chief of Global Public Health Strategy at The Rockefeller Foundation. You can watch all of the SEVEN Talks on our YouTube channel. More about BruceBruce Gellin '77 has pursued a career that's blended medicine, science, policy, and public health with a focus on infectious diseases and pandemics. He traces all of this to his days at Carolina, where he crafted an interdisciplinary studies program in human biology. When he took a year off in the middle of medical school at Cornell ('83) as a Luce Scholar in the Philippines, he came back with a clearer picture where he was headed. After completing a residency in internal medicine at Vanderbilt ('86), he became a disease detective in CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service that put him on the ground investigating outbreaks from Leavenworth Penitentiary (a foodborne outbreak of “homemade” ice cream) to New Zealand (an epidemic of bacterial meningitis). His career in vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases included work at Johns Hopkins and NIH and as a Warren Weaver Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2002, he moved to Washington as an Assistant Secretary for Health and Director of the National Vaccine Program Office at the Department of Health and Human Services. After 15 years in that post (SARS, MERS, Bird Flu, H1N1, and a growing anti-vaccine movement), he was the president of global immunization at the Sabin Vaccine Institute until last year, when he returned to the Rockefeller Foundation as Chief, Global Public Health Strategy, where he is overseeing their Global Vaccine Initiative and their recently launched Pandemic Prevention Institute. How to listenOn your mobile device, you can listen and subscribe to Catalyze on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. For any other podcast app, you can find the show using our RSS feed.Catalyze is hosted and produced by Sarah O'Carroll for the Morehead-Cain Foundation, home of the first merit scholarship program in the United States and located at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You can let us know what you thought of the episode by finding us on Twitter or Instagram at @moreheadcain or you can email us at communications@moreheadcain.org.

Journalist and medical doctor Seema Yasmin joins us to discuss why misinformation and conspiracy theories about health and wellness are so alluring; how to recognize and fight back against false claims; the difference between misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation; holding the two truths that science is one of the best tools we have for finding facts and science hasn't always gotten it right; and more. Plus, Christy shares an excerpt from the audiobook of The Wellness Trap about wellness mis- and disinformation and how they've come to proliferate online.Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer prize finalist, director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and professor of crisis communication at UCLA. Yasmin served as a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, and a science correspondent for major newspaper and broadcast outlets. She is the author of five books, including What the Fact?! Her reporting appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and other outlets. She received her medical degree from the University of Cambridge and trained in journalism at the University of Toronto.If you like this conversation, subscribe to hear lots more like it! You can also sign up to get it in your inbox each week (with a full transcript) at rethinkingwellness.substack.com.Christy's new book, The Wellness Trap, is now available wherever books are sold! Order it online or ask for it in your favorite local bookstore.If you're looking to make peace with food and break free from diet and wellness culture, come check out Christy's Intuitive Eating Fundamentals online course. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.com/subscribe

Dr. Stanley Plotkin, MD ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Plotkin ), is an American physician, scientist, and scholar, who in the 1960s, while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus (which is now used worldwide as a key component of the MMR vaccine), and has worked extensively on the development and application of a wide range of other vaccines including those for polio, rabies, varicella, rotavirus and cytomegalovirus ( https://www.epiv.eu/ ). Dr. Plotkin graduated from New York University in 1952 and obtained a medical degree at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He was a resident in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and at the Hospital for Sick Children in London. In 1957, Dr. Plotkin served in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the U.S. Public Health Service for three years and then served as a member of Wistar's active research faculty from 1960 to 1991. Today, in addition to his emeritus appointment at Wistar, Dr. Plotkin is emeritus professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania ( https://www.med.upenn.edu/apps/faculty/index.php/g275/p1554 ), and works as a consultant advising vaccine manufacturers, biotechnology firms, non-profits and governments. Dr. Plotkin's book, Vaccines, remains the standard reference on the subject. He is also an editor with Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, which is published by the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, D.C. Support the show

How do we make sense of the information we are surrounded by when it's so divisive, polarizing and confusing? What if we have fallen victim to disinformation and we feel embarrassed that we did? How do we teach our kids the truth if we don't even know what's fact or fiction? My guest is the author of the book, What the Fact and is a medical doctor, journalist, epidemiologist and professor at UCLA so Dr. Seema Yasmin, knows what she's talking about. Seema is a self-described “former” conspiracy theorist, who is helping us to understand the difference between misinformation and disinformation and how to get to the bottom to find the truth. What I love about my conversation with Seema is that she understands that disinformation is meant to exploit our fear and she meets that with empathy and understanding (because she's fallen victim to it too). She also explains how our brains work to seek out information and that can make us fall victim to disinformation, hoaxes and conspiracy theories.In this episode we also talk about how to discuss differing views with others and have disagreements in a productive way - yes! It's possible! We all hate being lied to and manipulated and at the same time, we want to be heard! Listening to this episode will help you really understand what's happening and how you can spot BS (Hint: There is actually a 10-step recipe for disinformation!)For Dr. Seema's Key Takeaways: Ten Media Literacy Lessons from What the Fact?!, head to the Parent Toolbox. www.parent-toolbox.com About Seema YasminDr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, medical doctor and Stanford and UCLA professor. Seema served as a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC, as a science reporter for The Dallas Morning News and a medical analyst for CNN. The author of five books, her reporting appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and on the BBC, NBC and other news networks. Her unique combination of expertise as a dually-trained physician and medical journalist have been called upon by the Vatican, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, and the White House, among others. Seema is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University, and visiting professor of crisis management and communication at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. She trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and in medicine at the University of Cambridge. Her book, What the Fact?! is a navigation guide for teens (and adults!) on how to survive the murky worlds of misinformation and disinformation and how to become savvy consumers of information.Social Media:Website: https://seemayasmin.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seema-yasmin/Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/seema.c.yasminInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/drseemayasmin/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorYasminTikTok: @drseemayasminGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56980654-what-the-factBookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/what-the-fact-finding-the-truth-in-all-the-noise/9781665900034Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/What-Fact-Dr-Seema-Yasmin/dp/1665900032Thanks for listening! For more on Robbin, her work and free resources, keep reading! READY FOR YOUR FAMILY CHECK UP CALL? If you're feeling burnt out by bad behavior, worn down from constant battles and bickering and you've struggled to get the cooperation, respect and obedience you want from your kids, I've been there too. It might be time to learn new tools (that you've never been taught) to help you get your kids to listen to you, build teamwork, and grow the harmony in your home....

We are inundated with information all day long everywhere we turn! Unfortunately, misinformation spreads like wildfire, especially in times of crisis. Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer finalist, and a CNN medical analyst who advocates for media literacy and slowing the spread of false news. She attended medical school at Cambridge University and worked as a disease detective for the U.S. federal government's Epidemic Intelligence Service. She currently teaches storytelling at Stanford University School of Medicine. In her latest book, Dr. Yasmin brings the next generation into the misinformation conversation. “What the Fact? Finding the Truth in All the Noise” offers teens a how-to guide to build the discernment necessary to tell fact from fiction. We discussed being intentional with spending our time online, thoughtfully consuming information to avoid mental health stress, and more!   Produced by Dear Media This episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.

Dr. Melisa Shah, an infectious disease physician and a recent graduate of CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, and Sarah Gregory discuss the seasonality of common human coronaviruses in the United States.

Can we design intellectual antibodies? How does misinformation spread like a virus? Why do our brains cling to biases? Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, Pulitzer prize finalist, medical doctor and Stanford and UCLA professor as well as a CEO coach working with Corporate Edge. Dr. Yasmin served as a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the CDC, as a science reporter for The Dallas Morning News and medical analyst for CNN. The author of five books, her reporting appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, WIRED, Scientific American, and on the BBC, NBC and other news networks. Dr. Yasmin's unique combination of expertise as a dually-trained physician and medical journalist have been called upon by the Vatican, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and the White House. Yasmin is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford University, and visiting professor of crisis communication at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. She trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and in medicine at the University of Cambridge. Her newest book, What the Fact?! is a navigation guide for teens (and adults!) on how to survive the murky worlds of misinformation and disinformation and become savvy consumers of information. Episode Mentions: Seema's Website: https://seemayasmin.com/ Website: Stanford Health Communication Initiative Seema's New Book: What the Fact!? (Book drops on Sept 20th, 2022) Article: Must-read books coming out in Sept 2022 Article: Doctors are spreading COVID disinformation. California needs to do something about it Follow Seema: Twitter | Insta | TikTok | LinkedIn Episode Website: https://mailchi.mp/designlabpod/seemayasmin More episode sources & links Sign-up for Design Lab Podcast's Newsletter Previous Episode Newsletters and Shownotes Follow @DesignLabPod on Twitter Instagram and LinkedIn Follow @BonKu on Twitter & Instagram Check out the Health Design Lab Production by Robert Pugliese Edit by Fernando Queiroz Cover Design by Eden Lew Theme song by Emmanuel Houston Indexed in the Library of Congress: ISSN 2833-2032

Timothy Jerrell Cunningham (December 21, 1982 – 2018) was a whistleblower & Harvard-educated doctor with the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. As an epidemiologist, he was a team leader in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and was named in 2017 as part of the Atlanta Business Chronicle's 40 Under 40 list.He was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer. What's that? Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers deal with diseases and biowarfare. He was on the team for H1N1, Ebola, and the Zika virus. He mysteriously died when THEY decided to deploy their chaos.thefacthunter.com

Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, professor and author. She is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative,  clinical assistant professor in Stanford University's Department of Medicine, and visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA where she teaches crisis management and communications. Yasmin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news in 2017 with a team from The Dallas Morning News for coverage of a mass shooting. She is the recipient of two awards from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Her reporting appears in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, WIRED, Scientific American, and other outlets. She is a medical analyst for CNN and a correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment. Yasmin is a fiction fellow of the Kundiman and Tin House writing workshops. Her poems and short stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies including The BreakBeat Poets Vol 3: Halal If You Hear Me, New Moons: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims, The Georgia Review, The Literary Review, Foundry, The Los Angeles Review, and others. Her writing has earned awards and residencies from the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic Arts Council, Hedgebrook, and others. After training in medicine at the University of Cambridge, Yasmin served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where she investigated outbreaks in prisons, hospitals, reservations and other settings; principal investigator for a number of epidemiologic studies; and deployed as strategic advisor to foreign ministries of health. She trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and worked as a staff writer at The Dallas Morning News covering Ebola's arrival in Texas. Her scholarly work focuses on the spread of health misinformation and disinformation, the growth of medical and news deserts, and the impact on public health. She teaches creative nonfiction including health and science journalism, global health storytelling, practicing medicine with empathy and compassion, and advanced clinical communication skills. Her unique combination of expertise in epidemics, science communication and journalism has been called upon by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Skoll World Forum.

Seema Yasmin gathers a powerful line-up of poets—George Abraham, Aracelis Girmay, José Olivarez, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Yalini Thambynayagam—to celebrate Yasmin's poetry collection, If God Is A Virus. Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States, and the poet's experiences as a doctor and journalist, If God Is A Virus charts the course of the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, telling the stories of Ebola survivors, outbreak responders, journalists and the virus itself. These documentary poems explore which human lives are valued, how editorial decisions are weighed, what role the aid industrial complex plays in crises, and how medical myths and rumor can travel faster than microbes. These poems also give voice to the virus. Eight percent of the human genome is inherited from viruses and the human placenta would not exist without a gene descended from a virus. If God Is A Virus reimagines viruses as givers of life and even authors of a viral-human self-help book. Featuring: Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, disease detective and author. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting in 2017 with her team from The Dallas Morning News for coverage of a mass shooting. Yasmin was a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she chased outbreaks in maximum-security prisons, American Indian reservations, border towns and hospitals. Currently, Dr. Yasmin is a Stanford professor, medical analyst for CNN and science correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment. Find her at seemayasmin.com, Twitter @DoctorYasmin and Instagram: @drseemayasmin. Aracelis Girmay is the author of three books of poems: the black maria (BOA, 2016); Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007), winner of a GLCA New Writers Award; and Kingdom Animalia (BOA, 2011), the winner of the Isabella Gardner Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Girmay currently serves as the Margaret Bundy Scott Professor in the English Department. George Abraham is a Palestinian-American poet, educator, and engineer who grew up on unceded Timucuan lands. They are the author of their debut collection Birthright, winner of the Big Other Book Award, finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry, and was named on Best of 2020 lists with The Asian American Writers' Workshop and The New Arab. Janice Lobo Sapigao (she/her) is a daughter of immigrants from the Philippines, and the author of two books of poetry: microchips for millions and like a solid to a shadow. She's been profiled in Content Magazine, Mercury News, SF Gate, and Metro Silicon Valley. Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Apogee Journal, Entropy, The Offing, poets.org, Split This Rock's Poem-of-the-Week, and Waxwing Literary Journal. José Olivarez is the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems, Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It was named a top book of 2018 by The Adroit Journal, NPR, and the New York Public Library. Along with Felicia Chavez and Willie Perdomo, he co-edited the poetry anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext. https://joseolivarez.com/ YaliniDream is a touring performing artist, organizer, somatics practitioner, and consultant with over twenty years' experience using artistic tools for healing, organizing, and dignity with communities contending with violence and oppression. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/QPIZZhVeTGY Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet, medical doctor and author. Serving as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she investigated disease outbreaks as principal investigator on a number of studies. Previously she was a science correspondent at The Dallas Morning News, medical analyst for CNN, and professor of public health at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is author of three award-winning books: The Impatient Dr. Lange, Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them, and Muslim Women are Everything. Dr. Yasmin shares with us the inspiration behind her books and provides advice on effective communication in the face of misinformation and stereotypes. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/theia-hc/support

Join Seema Yasmin and Steven Thrasher in conversation to celebrate Yasmin's newly released poetry collection, If God Is A Virus. This is the full event recording. ---------------------------------------------------- Merging documentary poetry from the epicenter of an epidemic with the story of viruses in the evolution of humanity, If God Is A Virus gives voice to the infected and the virus. Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States, and the poet's experiences as a doctor and journalist, If God Is A Virus charts the course of the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, telling the stories of Ebola survivors, outbreak responders, journalists and the virus itself. Documentary poems explore which human lives are valued, how editorial decisions are weighed, what role the aid industrial complex plays in crises, and how medical myths and rumor can travel faster than microbes. These poems also give voice to the virus. Eight percent of the human genome is inherited from viruses and the human placenta would not exist without a gene descended from a virus. If God Is A Virus reimagines viruses as givers of life and even authors of a viral-human self-help book. Get a copy of If God Is A Virus here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1636-if-god-is-a-virus ---------------------------------------------------- Dr. Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, disease detective and author of If God Is A Virus. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news reporting in 2017 with her team from The Dallas Morning News for coverage of a mass shooting. Yasmin was a disease detective in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she chased outbreaks in maximum-security prisons, American Indian reservations, border towns and hospitals. Currently, Dr. Yasmin is a Stanford professor, medical analyst for CNN and science correspondent for Conde Nast Entertainment. Find her at seemayasmin.com, Twitter @DoctorYasmin and Instagram: @drseemayasmin. Steven Thrasher, is a Scientific American columnist and professor at Northwestern University in the Medill School of Journalism and the Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. He is the author of the forthcoming book The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans on the Margins, from Celdaon Books and Macmillan Publishing. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/-tGMuVFmjsg Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Dr. Farzad Mostashari’s extensive resume doesn’t fully convey the true value he brings to reimagining healthcare. He’s the former National Coordinator for Health IT at the Department of Health and Human Services, served as assistant commissioner at the New York City Department of Health, was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the CDC, a fellow at The Brookings Institution and a resident at Mass General Hospital. Yet, with all that experience, he says living through the Iranian revolution before moving to the U.S. at age 14 is what fuels his ability to see things differently.As he told Keith Figlioli, “seeing an actual revolution does something for your sense that things can change; that you can be looking at one reality one day, and a different reality the next day.”In this episode of Healthcare is Hard, Farzad talks about how he’s never been totally comfortable inside – or even leading – the grand institutions he’s been part of, and at some level, has always felt like an outsider. He describes his ability to see the insider and outsider perspective, his natural disposition to see things differently, and how this trait led him to found Aledade.Most of the industry looked at the Medicare Shared Savings program in the Affordable Care Act and assumed that hospitals needed to be at the center of creating and sharing in savings. But after noticing the law didn’t require a hospital, Farzad began building a network of primary care doctors who could treat people upstream, reduce hospitalization and lower costs.Seven years later, Aledade has assembled 800 practices in 35 states and has $12.5 billion in annual medical spend under management. It’s helping independent physician practices deliver better care, reduce overall costs and preserve their autonomy in communities all across America.Farzad brings his outsider mentality and inclination to see things differently to his conversation with Keith Figlioli on this episode of Healthcare is Hard. They cover a number of topics including:Dis-economies of scale. Farzad talks about how healthcare is one of the few industries where organizations tend to lose money as they get bigger, and how it all maps back to fee-for-service. The main driver of consolidation in healthcare has been the need to build leverage at the negotiating table. But he says if you change the rules of game – including what’s being valued, rewarded, and compensated – you actually see that the small guys do better.Independent vs. Institutions. Farzad sees this as a proxy battle. He says if you’re betting fee-for-service will be the future of healthcare, bet on consolidating health systems. But if you’re betting on value, bet on the independents.Trust in policy makers. As someone who has lived on both the public and private sides of healthcare, Farzad sees that many people in the private sector are highly skeptical of healthcare policy makers. But in his experience, smart policy makers are motivated by evidence and doing the right thing to help improve care and lower cost. He says leaders in the private sector who understand this are in a better position to navigate the potential regulatory risk impacting their business.A decade of vision driving real value. It’s taken a long time to build much of the infrastructure that started under Farzad’s leadership at ONC almost ten years ago. And now, the combination of new incentives with data-driven capabilities the industry has talked about for a long time are very real. These elements have already created billions of dollars in value that couldn’t exist before, and that impact will continue to multiply.To hear Farzad and Keith talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard.

Dr. Kristen Pettrone, an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at CDC, and Sarah Gregory discuss the characteristics of hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Atlanta.

From the beginning of pandemic lockdown, the message has been: When we get a vaccine, life will go back to normal. But when that will be – if ever – remains an open question. Dr. Seema Yasmin is an epidemiologist, medical doctor, journalist, and a former officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the latest research on COVID-19 antibodies, treatments and the development of a vaccine.

Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet, medical doctor and author. Yasmin served as an officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention where she investigated disease outbreaks and was principal investigator on a number of CDC studies. Yasmin trained in journalism at the University of Toronto and in medicine at the University of Cambridge.Yasmin was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in breaking news in 2017 with a team from The Dallas Morning News and recipient of an Emmy for her reporting on neglected diseases. She received two grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. In 2017, Yasmin was a John S. Knight Fellow in Journalism at Stanford University investigating the spread of health misinformation and disinformation during epidemics. Previously she was a science correspondent at The Dallas Morning News, medical analyst for CNN, and professor of public health at the University of Texas at Dallas.Her writing has earned awards and residencies from the Mid Atlantic Arts Council, Hedgebrook, the Millay Colony for the Arts and others. Her first book, The Impatient Dr. Lange (Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2018) is the biography of an AIDS doctor killed on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Her second book, Debunked! Pseudoscience, Medical Myths and Why They Persist, is forthcoming in November 2019. A major title about women is forthcoming from HarperCollins in 2020.Yasmin's unique expertise in medicine, epidemics and journalism has been called upon by The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, the Aspen Institute, Skoll Foundation and others.

Ira Pastor, ideaXme life sciences ambassador, interviews Dr. Stanley Plotkin, Professor Emeritus at both Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania and consultant to the vaccine industry. Ira Pastor Comments: So as we sit here a few months into the global Covid-19 pandemic, one big question on everyone’s mind is when will we see the first mass produced vaccine against this current strain, especially as it looks like in the United States there will be some loosening of quarantine / "shelter in place" rules to re-start the economy. Dr. Stanley Plotkin: Dr. Stanley Plotkin is an American physician, scientist, and scholar, in many circles referred to as “the Godfather of Vaccines", who in the 1960s, while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against Rubella virus (also known as German measles or three-day measles), which is now used worldwide (as a key component of the MMR vaccine - a combination vaccine also that protects against measles and mumps) and has worked extensively on the development and application of a wide range of other vaccines including polio, rabies, varicella, rotavirus and cytomegalovirus. Dr. Plotkin graduated from New York University in 1952 and obtained a medical degree at Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. He was a resident in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and at the Hospital for Sick Children in London. In 1957, Dr. Plotkin served in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the U.S. Public Health Service for three years, and then served as a member of Wistar’s active research faculty from 1960 to 1991. Today, in addition to his emeritus appointment at Wistar, he is also Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania, and works as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers, such as Sanofi Pasteur, as well as biotechnology firms, non-profits and governments. Dr. Plotkin's book, "Vaccines", remains the standard reference on the subject. Dr. Plotkin is also an editor with Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, which is published by the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, D.C. On this episode we will hear from Dr. Plotkin: About his background; how he became interested in medicine, research, and how after joining Wistar (under the equally famous Dr. Hilary Koprowski), and working for a bit with Anthrax, how Rubella became a target of interest, His thoughts on Covid-19: how worried / concerned / optimistic he is about vaccine development. How with dozens of coronavirus vaccine candidates being developed, in various companies and organizations (including RNA vaccines, DNA vaccines, single protein vaccines, multiple protein vaccines, etc.) how a choice is made of which "to go with" once some are approved. About the requirement for a "perfect vaccine" with 100% coverage, versus less perfect vaccines that could get to market earlier. The topics of Plant BioTechnology, edible vaccines and the Anti-Vaccine movement. Credits: Ira Pastor interview video, text, and audio. Follow Ira Pastor on Twitter:@IraSamuelPastor If you liked this interview, be sure to check out ourinterview with Dr. Linfa Wang: Hunting Down Covid-19 and Other Deadly Diseases! Follow ideaXme on Twitter:@ideaxm On Instagram:@ideaxme Find ideaXme across the internet including on iTunes,SoundCloud,Radio Public, YouTube, TuneIn Radio,I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, Spotify and more. ideaXme is a global podcast, creator series and mentor programme. Our mission: Move the human story forward!™ ideaXme Ltd.

The Future of Everything with Russ Altman: "Seema Yasmin: How to conquer a pandemic with communication" A specialist in reporting on epidemics — and a medical doctor to boot — explains why bad information is an enemy of public health. Seema Yasmin is a rarity in public health: a medical doctor who is also a journalist. As such, she’s seen a lot, from Ebola in West Africa to SARS and MERS, and now COVID-19, the most serious pandemic in a century. Yasmin is currently director of research and education at the Stanford Center for Health Communication. From her years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a group widely described as “the disease detectives” — and as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, Yasmin says that the greatest impediment to halting an outbreak is the rapid spread of bad information, and even abject disinformation, which when abetted by social media can spread faster than the disease itself. To halt the pandemic, she says medical science and public health experts — and the journalists who cover them — must become better storytellers to get ahead of bad information and to “pre-bunk” false claims that lead to bad decision-making.

Hidden behind the scenes of protests against Democratic governors is the role of radical fringe groups, gun enthusiasts, and right-wing financiers, some with ties to the family of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Author Jeff Sharlet discusses the rise of right-wing religious extremists, influential members, their broader strategy, and how the shutdown protesters are being used as disposable pawns in a much longer game. Sharlet’s books “The Family” and “C-Street” chronicle the history and strategy now permeating the Trump administration and the Republican Party. As his administration rolls out its phased plan for “re-opening America,” Dr. Seema Yasmin, a former officer in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, analyzes the insanity of Trump’s daily briefings, his strategy to withhold aid from states based on how nice governors are to him, and what should be done to overcome the pandemic scientifically and socially. Plus, Intercepted listeners share their often gut-wrenching stories of struggling to survive in a country rocked by the nightmare of economic uncertainty in the time of the coronavirus crisis. If you or someone you know needs emotional support or is contemplating suicide, resources include the Crisis Text Line, the Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the Trevor Project, or the International Association for Suicide Prevention.

Seema Yasmin is a rarity in public health: a medical doctor who is also a journalist. As such, she's seen a lot, from Ebola in West Africa to SARS and MERS, and now COVID-19, the most serious pandemic in a century.Yasmin is currently director of research and education at the Stanford Center for Health Communication. From her years in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — a group widely described as “the disease detectives” — and as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, Yasmin says that the greatest impediment to halting an outbreak is the rapid spread of bad information, and even abject disinformation, which when abetted by social media can spread faster than the disease itself. To halt the pandemic, she says medical science and public health experts — and the journalists who cover them — must become better storytellers to get ahead of bad information and to “pre-bunk” false claims that lead to bad decision-making.

As the outbreak of COVID-19 becomes officially classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, we look at the role of the Epidemic Intelligence Service the CDCs "disease detectives".

The discovery of antibiotics hailed the dawn of a new era in medicine. Once fatal infections were suddenly treatable with the arrival of these magic bullet cures. This golden era is waning, however. Today, we face a rising crisis of antimicrobial resistance with more than 700,000 deaths per year across the globe due to now untreatable infections. The broad use of antibiotics in humans and agriculture has created the conditions for evolution of resistance among microbes. But, how did we get here? Why and when did antibiotics come to be so commonplace in agriculture? How did they come to be used as “growth promoters” in livestock rearing practices? In this episode, I speak with award winning author and journalist, Maryn McKenna, who has written extensively on the antibiotic resistance crisis. We take a deep dive into the history of how antibiotics became commonplace in agriculture and how this has impacted human health. About Maryn McKenna Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist and author, specializing in public health, global health, and food policy, and a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University, where she teaches health and science writing and storytelling, and media literacy. She is the recipient of the 2019 AAAS-Kavli Award for magazine writing for her piece "The Plague Years" in The New Republic, and the author of the 2017 bestseller Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats (National Geographic Books, Sept. 2017), which received the 2018 Science in Society Award, making her a two-time winner of that prize. Big Chicken was named a Best Book of 2017 by Amazon, Science News, Smithsonian Magazine, Civil Eats, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Toronto Globe and Mail; an Essential Science Read by WIRED; and a 2018 Book All Georgians Should Read. Her 2015 TED Talk, "What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more?", has been viewed 1.8 million times and translated into 34 languages. Her earlier books are Superbug (published in 2010), on the international epidemic of drug-resistant staph in hospitals, families and farms, which won the 2013 June Roth Memorial Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the 2011 Science in Society Award given by the National Association of Science Writers; and Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (published in 2004), the first history of the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, for which she embedded with the corps for a year. Beating Back the Devil was named one of the Top Science Books of 2004 by Amazon and an Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association. Maryn has presented at the United Nations, U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control about the need to curb antibiotic misuse in medicine and agriculture, and is a frequent public speaker and radio, TV and podcasts. About Cassandra Quave Prof. Cassandra Quave is best known for her ground-breaking research on the science of botanicals. Scientists in her research lab work to uncover some of nature’s deepest secrets as they search for new ways to fight life-threatening diseases, including antibiotic resistant infections. Working with a global network of scientists and healers, Cassandra and her team travel the world hunting for new plant ingredients, interviewing healers, and bringing plants back to the lab to study. Besides research, Cassandra is an award-winning teacher, and has developed and taught the college classes “Food, Health and Society” and “Botanical Medicine and Health” at Emory University. @QuaveEthnobot on Twitter @QuaveEthnobot on Instagram @QuaveMedicineWoman and “Foodie Pharmacology with Cassandra Quave” on Facebook

Join us with guest, L. Clifford McDonald, MD. Dr. McDonald, MD graduated from Northwestern University Medical School. He completed a medical microbiology fellowship at Duke University and is a former member of CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service. Dr. McDonald is currently the Associate Director for Science in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the CDC. He has first-authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications on subjects related to healthcare and infectious disease epidemiology. Listen in as Dr. McDonald discusses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) newly released report; 2019 Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States and what that means in the C. difficile community.

Join us with guest, L. Clifford McDonald, MD. Dr. McDonald, MD graduated from Northwestern University Medical School. He completed a medical microbiology fellowship at Duke University and is a former member of CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service. Dr. McDonald is currently the Associate Director for Science in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the CDC. He has first-authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications on subjects related to healthcare and infectious disease epidemiology. Listen in as Dr. McDonald discusses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) newly released report; 2019 Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States and what that means in the C. difficile community.

Dr. Richard Besser is the president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, former acting director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and former chief health and medical editor at ABC News. At the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Besser leads the largest private Foundation in the country devoted solely to improving the nation’s health. The Foundation’s work is focused on building a comprehensive culture of health that provides everyone in America with a fair and just opportunity to live the healthiest life possible.  In this episode, Dr. Besser shares his career path, some takeaways from his CDC leadership experience, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s vision for building a culture of health.  For more information and full episode transcription go to Contagious Conversations (www.cdcfoundation.org/conversations). Key Takeaways:  [1:27] What led Dr. Richard Besser to this point of his career.  [2:16] Key influences in Dr. Besser’s career.   [5:40] Joining the Epidemic Intelligence Service.  [6:20] Dr. Besser’s favorite aspect of being a pediatrician.  [7:42] Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s approach to building a culture of health.  [9:26] Health equity.  [10:14] When parents know what their kids need but may not have access to a safe environment.  [11:47] Key takeaways from Dr. Besser’s leadership experience that shaped his views about health.  [14:05] The H1N1 response at CDC.  [14:28] Public health’s identity challenge.  [15:57] Defining moments of Dr. Besser’s tenure at CDC.  [18:05] The most interesting person Dr. Besser interviewed at ABC News: President Obama.  [20:15] 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa.  [21:20] Partnerships and philanthropy.  [23:45] Your zip code and your life expectancy are linked.  [24:55] 500 Cities Project.  [25:50] The one key initiative that Dr. Besser would like to accomplish at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  [27:19] Investing in leaders.  [28:32] Career advice for future public health leaders in America: Work to change the world.    Mentioned in This Episode:  CDC Foundation  Answer this episode’s question: What does public health mean to you? Email your answer to info@cdcfoundation.org to win some CDC Foundation merchandise. 

Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy. She is a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University, and the author of the 2017 bestseller BIG CHICKEN: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, as well as the award-winning books Superbug and Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. In this episode Maryn shares her unique career journey, describes why storytelling matters, and tells us what it’s like to cover stories on the front lines of disease outbreaks. For more information and full episode transcription go to Contagious Conversations (www.cdcfoundation.org/conversations). Key Takeaways: [1:04] How Maryn became a journalist. [2:27] Immersion in the public health field. [4:01] Falling in love with investigative journalism. [5:04] Realizing the need to become a storyteller. [6:02] The unique challenges of public health storytelling. [6:18] The role of journalism in increasing awareness. [7:40] On the frontlines of a health response. [10:32] Why did Maryn get interested in the area of antibiotics resistance? [13:53] Seeing statistics about how we use antibiotics in livestock compared to medicine led to a new book. [14:24] Why chickens? [16:50] An experience in France that changed Maryn forever. [19:33] Does Maryn still eat chicken? [21:18] Disease X. [23:15] Acute flaccid myelitis, new epidemic in the USA. [24:10] Concerns about U.S. public health in response to epidemics. [26:14] Antibiotics development is expensive and challenging . [26:48] The role of public-private partnerships in public health. [29:12] Maryn’s advice to young people pursuing journalism. [31:05] Journalism’s openness to people from other fields today.   Mentioned in This Episode: CDC Foundation Answer this episode’s question:Have you ever had chicken or any food in another country that changed your life? Email info@cdcfoundation.org to win a signed copy of Big Chicken

"HICS: The Insider's Perspective," produced by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), discusses the Hospital Incident Command System - what HICS is, who's involved, when to activate, and why it's important. Moderator: Judith Guzman-Cottrill,DO, Professor of Pediatrics at Oregon Health & Science University and consultant for the Oregon Health Authority’s HAI Program, where she serves as the Medical Director for Ebola and Emerging Pathogen Preparedness. Panelists: Kristina Spurgeon, MPH, Emergency Manager at UC Davis Health, with experience including a decade at Kaiser Permanente specializing in emergency management. Pritish Tosh, MD, infectious diseases physician and the medical director for Emergency Management at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. His prior training includes the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and as a fellow with the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota.

In this episode, I’m happy to share with all of you an interview with Eric Pevzner as we discuss some important and very interesting details about the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, (EIS) program.  There is a great deal of information covered in this episode, which is why the show notes page for this episode is so comprehensive and includes links to find out more about what is discussed in the interview. CAPT Pevzner is Chief of the Epidemiology Workforce Branch in the Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development, and Chief of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Program. He is also a Captain in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service.

Big Chicken with Maryn McKennaMaryn McKenna is a journalist and author who specializes in public health, global health and food policy. She has reported from epidemics and disasters, and farms and food production sites, on most of the continents, including a field hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, a Thai village erased by the Indian Ocean tsunami, a bird-testing unit on the front lines of West Nile virus, an Arctic graveyard of the victims of the 1918 flu, an AIDS treatment center in Yunnan, a polio-eradication team in India, breweries in France, a “Matrix for chickens” in the Netherlands, and the Midwestern farms devastated by the 2015 epidemic of avian flu.She writes about science and food for National Geographic and for magazines and websites in the United States and Europe, including The New York Times Magazine, NPR, Newsweek, Vice, FiveThirtyEight, Wired, Scientific American, Slate, Modern Farmer, Nature, The Atlantic, and The Guardian. She is the author of the award-winning books SUPERBUG and BEATING BACK THE DEVIL: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. http://marynmckenna.comGrief, When Will This Pain Ever End with Paula ShawPAULA SHAW, CADC, DCEP is a Grief and Addictions Therapist. She is also a Best Selling Author, Keynote Speaker and Transition Radio Talk Show Host. For more than 20 years, Paula has been passionate about helping people navigate the stress of Change and Challenge. She uses mind/body tools and techniques to help people ease and eliminate stress, depression, anxiety and the conditions they exacerbate like weight gain, relationship distress, career challenges, lack of energy and self-destructive, addictive behavior. http://www.paulashaw.com

They say that civilization advances by extending the number of important things we can do without thinking about them. To me, that's the promise of technology and it's particularly true when it comes to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Still, not everyone sees it that way. Some worry that they'll be replaced. Others take offense to the fact that they're seen as replaceable. But just like the rise of ATMs led to an INCREASE in the number of bank tellers, we'll see AI drive unpredictable, and generally positive change in the healthcare industry. Some will be displaced, but if they're open to it they'll be in a position to take on new and even more valuable roles that we can't even imagine today. Side note: AI may just help us deal with the projected doctor shortage. I know what you're thinking: That's big talk from an industry that recently gave you the EMR. That's fair, but there is a way to do this right. And that's what we're going to talk about today. Today's guests are Shahid Shah (usually co-host, but today I'm calling him a guest) and Dr. Chesley Richards, CDC Deputy Director for Public Health Scientific Services. Together we'll discuss the rapid pace of technological change in healthcare and what that means for doctors, vendors and patients. We'll show you how AI will complement and enhance the capabilities of today's clinicians and allow them to focus on keeping us healthy. We'll show you how technology, when its properly deployed and used, can be incredibly effective. And perhaps, most importantly, we'll tell you why listening is the starting point and potentially the most important thing you can do to ensure this all goes well. An overview of The Health IT Leadership Summit w/ Jody Braner and an introduction to today's podcast guests (0:00 - 10:20) Given all the advances in technology such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Precision Medicine, etc. will doctors have jobs in 10 years? (11:10) Similarly, what will HealthIT vendors be working on in 10 years? (20:30) Looking at vaccines as technology, and applying that technology intelligently and in a way that was designed to work in specific communities and regions allowed us to eradicate diseases like Smallpox (29:38) How can tech vendors realign themselves to support the goal of cures instead of focusing on disease management and administration? (32:00) What hurdles do we have to get over so that collectively we're getting back to our focus on cures over just treatment? (35:15) Why does population health matter? (38:00) Let's discuss the dangers of technology and how it can adversely impact the delivery of care when it's not properly deployed and used. (41:00) We often think of technology as a way to digitize and automate what I do today. Why don't we take the opportunity to ask what we can do better? What can we stop doing altogether? (43:00) How can we power all of this in new ways with data? (47:35) How can the CDC and other organizations open up more data for public experimentation? (52:00) What new workforce needs or changes will emerge in healthcare in the coming years? (56:00) We can use data to cut down on the time from idea thru randomized trial to approval of new drugs - today that might take up to 17 years!!!! (1:01:35) This is a very engaging and insightful conversation, and one I know will make you think about a few things differently. I can honestly say that I loved listening to the final product and I believe you will too. Enjoy! ~ Don Lee About Chesley Richards and CDC Chesley Richards M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P. is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Deputy Director for Public Health Scientific Services as well as Director, Office of Public Health Scientific Services. In these two roles, Dr. Richards is a key advisor to the CDC Director and oversees the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS) with activities that include the MMWR, Vital Signs publications, the Epidemic Intelligence Service and other scientific training programs, the Guide to Community Preventive Services, and a broad range of cross cutting epidemiology, public health surveillance, and laboratory services. Dr. Richards earned his M.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina, an M.P.H. in Health Policy and Administration from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a graduate of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) at CDC, the Cancer Control Education Fellowship at UNC Lineberger Cancer Center and the Program on Clinical Effectiveness at Harvard School of Public Health. He completed Internal Medicine (Medical College of Georgia), Geriatric Medicine (Emory University) and General Preventive Medicine and Public Health (UNC Chapel Hill). Learn more: https://www.cdc.gov About The 8th Annual Health IT Leadership Summit Created in 2010 by the Georgia Department of Economic Development, the Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Technology Association of Georgia's Health Society, the Health IT Leadership Summit brings together leaders from across the healthcare continuum to discuss how the industry can drive innovation to enable better healthcare delivery at lower costs to more people. November 7, 2017 - Atlanta, GA “Join industry thought leaders as we explore and collaborate on the importance of connectivity and working together for the advancement of healthcare delivery. Hear how health IT is formalizing analytics, encouraging patient engagement and implementing value-based care. What is working? What is not working? Learn about success stories and road blocks. This event is also an opportunity for your voice to be heard, as each session includes audience question and answer sessions. You will hear from security professionals, providers, innovative companies and other leading professionals. We also have a few exciting demonstrations to share. I look forward to seeing you!” Jodie Braner, 2017 HIT Summit Chair Learn more and register: https://healthitleadershipsummit.com/ Weekly Updates If you like what we're doing here, then please consider signing up for our weekly newsletter. You'll get one email from me each week detailing: New podcast episodes and blog posts. Content or ideas that I've found valuable in the past week. Insider info about the show like stats, upcoming episodes and future plans that I won't put anywhere else. Plain text and straight from the heart :) No SPAM or fancy graphics and you can unsubscribe with a single click anytime. The #HCBiz Show! is produced by Glide Health IT, LLC in partnership with Netspective Media. 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Mark Pendergrast was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, the fourth of seven children in a family that valued civil rights, the environment, sailing, reading, and games of chase and charades. He earned a B.A. in English literature from Harvard, taught high school and elementary school, then went back to Simmons College for a masters in library science and worked as an academic librarian—all the while writing freelance articles for newspapers and magazines. In 1991, he began writing books full time, which allows him to follow his rather eclectic interests. Pendergrast’s books have been published in 15 languages. For God, Country & Coca-Cola was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times, and Discover Magazine chose Mirror Mirror as one of the top science books of the year. Pendergrast has given speeches to professional groups, business associations, and college audiences in the United States, Canada, the U.K., and Germany. He has appeared on dozens of television shows, including the Today Show, CBS This Morning, and CNN, and has been interviewed on over 100 radio programs, including All Things Considered, Marketplace, and many other public radio shows. He lives in Colchester, Vermont. City on the Verge is Pendergrast’s third book related to the city of Atlanta, following For God, Country and Coca-Cola, a history of the soft drink, and Inside the Outbreaks, a history of the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the CDC.

Neal Nathanson M.D., discusses a 1955 incident in which Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., inadvertently released batches of polio vaccine that contained the live virus. Nathanson, who headed the unit of the Epidemic Intelligence Service that investigated cases of polio resulting from the Cutter vaccine, also provides an update on efforts toward global eradication of poliomyelitis. This program is presented by the George Dock Society for the History of Medicine. Recorded Nov. 1, 2016.

The TWiValians meet up with Tyler Sharp for a discussion on the Epidemic Intelligence Service and controlling dengue. Links for this episode: 2010 dengue epidemic in Puerto Rico Marshall Islands dengue outbreak (one and two) Photo of Tyler by Loren Rodgers TWiV shout-out by NPR and CIDRAP NSABB reverses decision on H5N1 publication TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 178 Weekly Science Picks Tyler - Co-infection with dengue and Leptospira (Emerging Inf Dis)Alan - The Winged Scourge (YouTube)Rich - Deepsea ChallengeVincent - Why did a US advisory board reverse its stance? (Ed Yong) Listener Pick of the Week Sasha - Microfluidic FutureAdam - The ConversationJim -  ENIAC Programmers Project

Guest: Mark Pendergrast Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Hosts Drs. Michael Greenberg and Matt Birnholz interview Mark Pendergrast, author of the new book Inside the Outbreaks: the Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. The Second Opinion Live hosts also discuss new research on salt, chocolate, and a patient who's opened his case to the Internet and the wisdom of crowds. Plus, can martial arts teach senior citizens how to fall?