How to End a Pandemic

Dec 04 2023

The How to End a Pandemic project is a Georgetown University initiative to systematically collect oral histories and insights from people who work in epidemics about how to end epidemics. Our guests come from media, politics, medicine, humanities, the social sciences, public policy, and business to help us answer the question “how can we end pandemics in ways that are smarter, faster, more equitable, and more humane?”

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Gregiore Lurton (#8)

Dec 04 2023 75 mins

Dr. Lenka Benova- Meeting the Particular Health Needs of Women in the Midst of Epidemic Crisis (#7)

Nov 07 2023 55 mins

Dr. Benova didn’t start off as an infectious disease specialist - Infectious disease research came to her through her work on maternal health during the COVID-19 epidemic. She shares with us her insights into maternal and neonatal health, and shows us how key populations - expectant mothers - are forgotten in disease outbreaks. Dr. Benova explains how using mixed methods and qual

Jackie Thornhill — Getting Involved in Emergency Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic, How the Pandemic Directly Affected the City of San Francisco, The Importance of Protecting the Most Vulnerable Populations in Times of Crisis (#6)

Jul 06 2023 41 mins

Jackie Thornhill is a communications, policy, and public relations expert currently serving as a Legislative Aide to San Francisco District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. She has created and executed communications plans for multiple elected officials, candidates for elected office, and public agencies. She has coordinated digital engagement and social media campaigns in her roles

Gail Carson — Creating a Database of Over a Million Case Records From 1,700+ Sites Across the Globe, Becoming an Infectious Disease Doctor, The Growing Epidemic of Networks, Treating ISARIC as if It Was a Garden (#5)

Apr 16 2023 71 mins

Quote: “No one institution can possibly do it on their own”Dr Gail Carson is an adult infectious diseases doctor by background who joined the first GOARN (network of institutions preparing and responding to outbreaks) mission to Gulu in 2000. Since then her career has been focussed on outbreak preparedness and response. She was fortunate enough to serve on other missions includ

Syra Madad — Working With The NYC’s Special Pathogens Program and the Largest Municipal Healthcare Station in the U.S., The “Slammer”, The Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions on Pandemic Response, Being Pregnant During the Covid-19 Pandemic (#4)

Apr 16 2023 63 mins

Quote:Syra Madad is an American pathogen preparedness expert and infectious disease epidemiologist. Madad is the Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals where she is part of the executive leadership team which oversees New York City's response to the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the city's 11 public hospitals. She was previousl

Magda Robalo — Decolonizing Global Health, Gender Inequality in a Male Dominated Field, “Finding Her Voice” as a Non-Native English Speaker, and Applying Clinical Research to Policy Making in the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa (#3)

Apr 16 2023 90 mins

Quote:Dr. Magda Robalo, WGH Global Managing Director, is an accomplished global health leader, trailblazer, and a leading voice for gender equality and social justice. She embodies a rich blend of technical, political, and diplomatic skills and experience, forged over thirty years of work across geographies and cultures, with diverse global, regional and local partners, governments

Melody Schreiber — Discovering the Field of Health Journalism, Reporting on Low Birthweight Treatments, Addressing How Climate Change Impacted Arctic Communities, and Framing Stories About Public Health In Ways That Make People Tune In (#2)

Apr 16 2023 75 mins

Quote: “The big thing back then was; How do we get people to care about health?”Melody Schreiber is a freelance health and science journalist who regularly writes for the Guardian US, The New Republic, Scientific American, NPR, The Washington Post, and other publications. She is also editor of “What We Didn’t Expect: Personal Stories About Premature Birth.”Links:Melody's

Anna Barry — Going From Photography to Public Health Journalism, The Factors That Go Into How Public Health Officials Inform The Public, Untangling The Threads of Ever-changing Information, Tensions Between State and Local Policy Makers (#1)

Apr 16 2023 56 mins

Quote: "It became a continious debate over who/what would be impacted by response efforts. Was it worth closing schools to keep businesses open? Only time will tell." From her humble start as a traveling photographer, Anna Barry-Jester walks us through how she became a public health journalist in the midst of a recession. This exciting role investigating the intersection