Millions of lives and could have saved tens of thousands in europe all those or more coming up in todays going underground but 1st we have going underground value our audience would like to make some clarifications based on feedback we received regarding last wednesdays programme in that show i referred to britain having the west coronavirus death rate per capita in the world this statement is based on the apparently a rolling 7 day average figure which puts the u. K. Ahead of even the United States in that same interview guest former Government Health minister and rena currie also stated we are blacker than the rest of europe in reference to why the u. K. Has a highest per capita coronavirus death rate in the world we contacted there about it and she clarified that she was referring to evidence that appears to show black and minority ethnic people were more susceptible to go in 1000 than white people you can find more information about both of those verifications on our website and yo
You can find more information about both of those verifications on our website and you tube channel but one irony our guest identifies in his new book is that britain was once the envy of the world when it came to handling epidemics Contact Tracing was pioneered against cholera in londons soho area and so what can we learn from past pandemics how they transform the world professor Frank Snowdon author of epidemics and society from the black death to the present joins me now via skype from rome in this early frank welcome to going underground before we get to the book which i think is being read by more and more people than maybe you even expected tell me about how you contract it coded in rome and why youve dedicated your life way before coronavirus to the study of pandemics and epidemics yes one devoted so many years to pandemic diseases because it seems to me there are a wonderful way forward. Understanding how societies function and their put together their values the relationships
You can find more information about both of those verifications on our website and you tube channel but one irony our guest identifies in his new book is that britain was once the envy of the world when it came to handling epidemics Contact Tracing was pioneered against cholera in londons soho area and so what can we learn from past pandemics how they transform the world professor Frank Snowdon author of epidemics and society from the black death to the present joins me now via skype from rome in this early frank welcome to going underground before we get to the book which i think is being read by more and more people than maybe you even expected tell me about how you contract it coded in rome and why youve dedicated your life way before coronavirus to the study of pandemics and epidemics yes one devoted so many years to pandemic diseases because it seems to me there were. Or for way for understanding how societies function are put together their values the relationships between people
Chris bunin. He shows how Geographic Information systems can be used to trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. He coauthored the book jamestown to appomattox mapping u. S. History with gis. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from nelson county, virginia just outside of our Albemarle County this is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to this bitly, it is not a perfect alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it to line up perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynote. I said, lets see, i wonder if anyone in this audience knows what gis is. Part one will be a crash course on gis and the power of the geographic inquiry model. Two, we look at
To trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from virginia outside of albemarle county. This is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to a perfect, it is not alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it pp perfectly and to line u perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynote. Ifaid, lets see, i wonder anyone in this audience knows what gis is. Part one will be a crash course on gis and the power of the geographic inquiry model. Two, we look at how we can use gis and geographic inquiry to teach medical geography historically and can temporarily. We will then discuss how we can use gis to support your students a