Este Geraghty: The Importance of Mapping Diseases & Health - MBM#47

Minds Behind Maps

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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About Este

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Shownotes

Note: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books.

• Ensheng (Frank) Dong
• John Hopkins Covid map (discontinued)
• Lauren Gardner
• Este's book: Learnings from Covid-19 (Amazon Affiliate)
• Bill Gates Ted Talk: The next outbreak? We're not ready
• Book & Podcast recommendations:
  • Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest by Dan Buettner (Amazon Affiliate)
  • Public Health Podcast Network by Dr April Moreno

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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