Community Informed Informatics

About this episode

Claire Dillavou discusses the importance of community context in public health informatics.

Numbers tell a story, but they rarely tell the whole story. Claire Dillavou, PhD, has made a career out of building and revising public health surveillance systems informed by the most critical variable: Community Context. The community revealed the story behind the numbers, one of the many lessons she learned that informed her successful public health informatics career at the LA County Department of Health, CDC, and ARPA-H. A public health informatics visionary, she describes her work...

People in this episode

Host: William Trick

Guest: Claire Dillavou

Topics covered

• public health
• informatics
• community context
• surveillance systems
• healthcare

Keywords

• public health
• informatics
• community context
• surveillance systems
• LA County
• CDC
• ARPA-H

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LA County Department of Health, CDC, ARPA-H

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