About this episode

This episode explores the invisibility of disaster prevention successes and the challenges of public trust in experts.

When a disaster is prevented, it doesn't make the news and most don't hear about it; and that's exactly the problem. In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast with Dr. Barry Davis, biostatistician and author of The Preventioneers, we explore why prevention's biggest successes stay invisible. We discuss why climate warnings have gone unheeded for 170 years, why treatment beats prevention for the "popular vote," and how to rebuild trust with a public that distrusts experts. The answe...

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Host: Dr. Barry Davis

Topics covered

• disaster prevention
• public health
• climate warnings
• trust in experts
• biostatistics

Keywords

• disaster prevention
• public health
• climate change
• biostatistics
• trust in experts

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Books & works: The Preventioneers

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