Science, Policy & Pandemics: Episode 1: An Overview of the Covid-19 Pandemic

In this week's episode, our host Rob Doubleday, sits down with infectious disease epidemiologist Professor James Wood and mathematician Professor Julia Gog to bring you an overview of infectious disease modeling and to answer some questions about the covid19 pandemic.

This series on science, policy and pandemics is brought to you by the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge, in partnership with Cambridge Infectious Diseases and the Cambridge Immunology Network.

Our guests this week:

Professor Julia Gog is a British mathematician, David N. Moore Fellow and Director of Studies in Mathematics at Queens' College, Cambridge and Professor of mathematical biology in the University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. She is also a member of the Cambridge Immunology Network and the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Interdisciplinary Research Centre. She is a member of SPI-M.

Professor James Wood is Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine and
Alborada Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Science. He is a veterinary epidemiologist who specializes in emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases, with a focus on bat transmitted viruses in sub-Saharan Africa and bovine tuberculosis.

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