Thom Rawson - Zoonotic Disease

Episode Notes

Today, the tables turn, as Dr. Thom Rawson finds himself on the other side of the interview, introducing his area of expertise, zoonotic diseases - diseases in animals. Most human pandemics begin with an animal disease crossing over to humans. What is the chance of this happening again? What can we do to minimise the risk of this happening?

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Tristan Naidoo & Thom Rawson ([email protected])

Timothy Hallett - HIV

Episode Notes

This World AIDS Day, we hear about the work of Prof. Tim Hallett. From his early work helping inform WHO guidelines and treatment regimens, to his work today in helping strengthen and support wider health systems more holistically.

You can read about the work of Thanzi La Onse here: thanzi.org/ Or learn more about the health system model itself at: tlomodel.org/

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

Bin Zhou - Hypertension

Episode Notes

One in three adults worldwide suffer from high blood pressure - a non-communicable disease that significantly worsens your outcomes from other diseases too. Today we hear from Dr. Bin Zhou on his research in mapping and understanding the state of the world's hypertension burden, and how that's changed over time.

You can see the output of the NCD-RisC group from their website: https://ncdrisc.org/

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

Patrick Doohan - Pandemic Preparedness

Episode Notes

The COVID-19 pandemic taught us a lot of things, first and foremost, how do we best prepare for the inevitable next time? Today, we speak with Dr. Patrick Doohan on the topic of Pandemic Preparedness, and the leading new research on investing for future pandemics.

You can learn more about the workings of the DAEDALUS model that Patrick discusses here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-022-00233-0

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

Katharina Hauck - Health Economics

Episode Notes

We've heard a lot so far about some of the latest technologies, policy making, and global interventions. There's one thing that all of these advancements require however - money. Today, we speak with the Jameel Institute's Deputy Director Prof. Katharina Hauck, for a dive into the world of Health Economics. How do we value health? How do we provide funding? How do we get the most bang-for-our-buck? Find out in this week's episode.

Read more about the newly established The Jameel Institute – Kenneth C Griffin Initiative for the Economics of Pandemic Preparedness: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/240191/jameel-institute-announces-initiative-increase-global/

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

Nimalan Arinaminpathy - Tuberculosis

Episode Notes

Tuberculosis is one of the world's biggest disease burdens, and also one of the most unequal. Depending on where you live in the world, it's either a forgotten relic of a different time, or a daily threat to your life. In this episode, Prof. Nimalan Arinaminpathy talks us through the scale of the TB challenge, and his work in helping End TB.

Read more about the WHO's global End TB targets and strategy here: https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/the-end-tb-strategy

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

Tristan Naidoo - Learning from Twitter Data

Episode Notes

AI technology is everywhere in the news nowadays. This week, we hear from Tristan Naidoo, one of the Jameel Institute's PhD students, on how he is leveraging the boom in natural language processing for his own research: using social media data from Twitter, to try and understand how the public reacts to adherence measures like lockdown.

Try sentiment analysis for yourself at https://tweetnlp.org/demo/

Read more about the "Perceptron" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

Anne Cori - Forecasting Disease Spread

Episode Notes

During a disease outbreak, it's crucial to know how fast a disease is spreading through a population. This week, Dr. Anne Cori talks us through her research - making these rapid assessments of transmissibility easier and more accessible than ever before.

You can explore the software package Anne discusses for yourself at: https://github.com/jstockwin/EpiEstimApp/wiki.

For more information on Anne's research, you can follow her on Twitter at @dr_anne_cori.

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

Neil Ferguson - Responding to Epidemics

Episode Notes

For this first episode, take a look back at the last 30 years of disease outbreak response. See how the field has grown and developed, and how lessons have been learned, as told by a scientist with 30 years of experience working on the front line - Prof. Neil Ferguson.

See the 2023 UK's National Risk Register here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-risk-register-2023

You can follow all things Jameel Institue at @Imperial_Jameel.

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity Ashot Danielyan - Relaxed Vlog (Night Street)

Recorded and produced by Dr. Thom Rawson ([email protected])

JameelCast - Trailer

Episode Notes

Introducing JameelCast, the podcast showcasing the latest public health research, from the scientists themselves. This limited series will explore Disease Forecasting, AI Technologies, Health Economics, Pandemic Preparedness and more.

Subscribe now to catch every episode.

You can find out more about the Jameel Institute at our website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jameel-institute

And follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Imperial_Jameel

Artwork: Georgia Melodie Hole

Music: Musictown - Inquisitive Curiousity

Recorded and produced by Thom Rawson ([email protected])