SXSW 2021
Hopkins’ COVID Dashboard: Future of Public Health
Description:
For millions of people across the world, the Johns Hopkins COVID-19 dashboard and tracking sites became one of the sole trusted resources for data on the spread of the pandemic. While data scientists invented new ways to locate, acquire, and validate public health data from small localities and repressive nations, public health experts, epidemiologists, and policy researchers were working to make sense of wildly different and incredibly messy data streams, and provide information that policymakers and the public could use to fight the spread of the epidemic. Four of the people who led the evolution of the dashboard and data visualizations discuss the challenges they surmounted, and what they have learned from tracking COVID-19 that can help us prepare for the next global pandemic.
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Takeaways
- How did public health experts and data scientists create a successful COVID dashboard in the middle of a pandemic?
- What did we learn about how difficult it is to get good public health data, and how can we fix it for next time?
- What's it like to know that your product is one of the few trustworthy data sources used by global health experts?
Speakers
- Sheri Lewis, Health Protection & Assurance Program Area Manager, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Jennifer Nuzzo, Senior Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
- Beth Blauer, Executive Director, Centers for Civic Impact at Johns Hopkins University
- Lainie Rutkow, Senior Adviser to the President and Professor, Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins University
Organizer
Geoff Brown, External communications sr. mgr., Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
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