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

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.Support the podcast on Patreon---Episode Sponsor: OpenCageUse OpenCage for your geocoding needs with their API. They have a generous Free trial you can sign up to!---About Este- Twitter- LinkedIn-  Esri ProfileShownotesNote: Links to books are Amazon Affiliate links. I earn a small commission if you buy any of these books.Ensheng (Frank) DongJohn Hopkins Covid map (discontinued)Lauren GardnerEste's book: Learnings from Covid-19 (Amazon Affiliate)Bill Gates Ted Talk: The next outbreak? We're not readyBook & 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 MorenoTimestamps(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)?- Support the podcast on Patreon- Website- My Twitter- Podcast Twitter- Read Previous Issues of the Newsletter- Edited by Peter Xiong. Find more of his work