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EPISODE · Feb 8, 2026 · 17 MIN

From Plague Bills To Predictive Algorithms

from The New Science of Fighting Infectious Diseases · host FedericaGazzelloni

From death records to predictive algorithms.This episode traces 400 years of health intelligence—from counting who died to forecasting what comes next.We move from John Graunt’s 17th-century Bills of Mortality, through modern burden-of-disease metrics like DALYs, to today’s machine-learning models that learn from data to anticipate outbreaks and inform prevention.

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From death records to predictive algorithms.This episode traces 400 years of health intelligence—from counting who died to forecasting what comes next.We move from John Graunt’s 17th-century Bills of Mortality, through modern burden-of-disease...

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