TIPS: Deep Dive Interviews – Page 3

Using the COVID-19 Shared Experience to Make Public Health Communication More Effective with Vanessa Lamers

February 8, 2021 donlee 0 Comments

For effective communication, the very first thing we need to do is create a connection with our audience. For that, metaphors and shared experience are two of our most effective tools. These, however, are hard to come by and typically must be created anew for every audience. It’s rare that we have a shared experience that touches everyone in a direct and visceral way. A shared experience that due to its sheer scope and severity, forces politicians, business leaders, and other key decision-makers through a crash course on public health concepts like contract tracing, mass testing, vaccine development and deployment, health access and disparities, public health data infrastructure, non-pharmaceutical interventions, and many more. For public health and emergency preparedness communicators, prior to 2020 at least, this would have been a pipe dream. Yet here we are.

Overcoming Emergent Problems in a Deepening Crisis with Dr. Angela Rasmussen

January 18, 2021 donlee 0 Comments

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to worsen by most objective measures. We’re breaking records for cases, deaths, and hospitalizations on a regular basis, and many of our hospitals are operating at or near capacity. Further complicating the situation, scientists are tracking the “UK variant” that is more transmissible, and our vaccine distribution has fallen well short of expectations. Emergent problems in a deepening crisis, of course, make us vulnerable to knee-jerk reactions that distract us from the known path to getting the pandemic under control.

Supporting the Front-lines and Improving Communication During a Pandemic with Dr. Saskia Popescu

December 4, 2020 donlee 0 Comments

When she was just 8 years old, Dr. Saskia Popescu’s step-mother handed her a copy of The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus . That simple act kicked off a string of events that would positively impact thousands of lives. At TIPS, we believe that one person can make a difference and everyone should try. Sometimes that person becomes a renowned infectious diseases epidemiologist and infection preventionist who specializes in biopreparedness, biosecurity, and pandemic response, and guides hospitals and businesses safely through a pandemic, like Dr. Popescu. Other times they make a difference simply by opening the mind of a child to the great possibilities of the world. Both matter.

Prof. Florian Krammer: Life in a Virus Lab During the COVID-19 Pandemic

July 20, 2020 donlee 0 Comments

Take a behind the scenes look at what it’s like to run a virus lab during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the science itself to keeping the team safe, avoiding burnout, communicating the facts, and dealing with misinformation. Plus, status updates on the virus candidates that are being tested around the world.

Richard Heinzl: If You Have the Will, There’s Always a Way

March 4, 2020 michaeldiamond 0 Comments

At the age of 22, first-year medical student, Richard Heinzl, was looking for an adventure while selecting his elective at McMaster University. While hitchhiking in Uganda, a country in the throes of civil war, a jeep pulled up in front of the canteen where he was grabbing a bite to eat. The jeep had a flag emblazoned with the letters M-S-F, and out of it jumped a bunch of doctors, but not like any doctors Richard had ever seen before. They were young, rough-looking, wearing shorts and t-shirts. They were in Uganda on a mission with Médecins Sans Frontières.

Steffanie Strathdee: Slaying Superbugs and Saving Lives

February 10, 2020 michaeldiamond 1 Comment

You are going to love this story of love, determination, resourcefulness and triumph. Steffanie cured her husbands illness with the help of three universities, the US Navy and researchers from across the world. What she discovered in the process is a super weapon against multidrug antimicrobial resistant diseases, which are expected to kill more than ten million people per year by 2050.

Antibiotic Resistance Survivor, Scientist and Activist: David Ricci – Part 2

December 27, 2019 michaeldiamond 1 Comment

In Part 1, we heard David Ricci’s harrowing tale of volunteering at an HIV clinic in Kolkata, India where he was hit by a train. His life-threating injuries lead to the amputation of his leg at a clinic in the slums. Despite that traumatic experience, he endured even greater trauma when he returned home to Seattle and spent over a year combatting an antibiotic-resistant infection. This podcast is a great primer on the challenges and potential solutions to the dangers of antimicrobial resistance and some of the reasons that it has not received the attention it deserves. Listen to Part 2 of David’s story and be inspired by this survivor, scientist and activist.

Antibiotic Resistance Survivor, Scientist and Activist: David Ricci – Part 1

December 19, 2019 michaeldiamond 0 Comments

In 2011, David was working at an HIV orphanage in Kolkata, India when he was hit by a train. He suffered profound injuries to his leg and was rushed to a clinic in the slums by rickshaw where his leg was amputated just below the knee. When he returned home to Seattle about a month later, he learned that he had been infected by several antibiotic-resistant bacteria. His doctors did not have clear treatment path for him, as they had never seen as case like David’s. He did not think he would survive this trauma.

Understanding Infectious Agents in the Environment | Dr. Syed Sattar and Bahram Zargar

November 6, 2019 donlee 0 Comments

What happens to an infectious agent once it leaves the human body? Well, it ends up in our cars, airplanes, food, water and soil. If we know how that contagion behaves “in the wild”, then we’ll be able to kill it, filter it, or otherwise prevent it from proliferating, and potentially improve the lives of millions of people in the process. This is the study of Environmental Microbiology and it’s a topic that today’s guest has spent more than 30 years trying to understand.

Introducing the TIPS Deep Dive Interview Series

September 20, 2019 michaeldiamond 0 Comments

The TIPS Deep Dive interview series is all about the inventors, scientist, leaders and great minds behind the promising innovations, ideas, and processes that our team helps advance through evidence-based science

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