A few years ago, while I was supervising HIV surveillance data for a city of more than two…
When people hear “disease surveillance,” they tend to picture dashboards, case counts, maybe a map with dots. They…
Every health department I’ve worked in has had at least one dashboard nobody looks at anymore. It probably…
Running two emergency responses at once is its own kind of stress. While I was on a municipal…
Public health has plenty of people who can read an epidemic curve. It has far fewer who can…
Before I worked on surveillance systems and dashboards, I worked in the operating room of a district hospital…
I spent the first part of my career as a physician in Benin, first in an emergency department…