S1E3: A leap of faith
Why do or don't we follow advice from healthcare professionals and authorities? What have previous outbreaks taught us about this "human factor"? Follow our researchers as they pitch their tent under snake-filled trees and talk to people in remote villages to get answers to the most pressing health questions.
Transmission · Sokha Suon, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Charlotte Gryseels, Kathy Kreppel
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Show Notes
Why do or don't we follow advice from healthcare professionals and authorities? What have previous outbreaks taught us about this "human factor"? Follow our researchers as they pitch their tent under snake-filled trees and talk to people in remote villages to get answers to the most pressing health questions.
For more information on Transmission, go to www.itg.be/podcast.
This episode features:
- Katharina (Kathy) Kreppel, epidemiologist, Head of the Unit of Emerging Infectious Diseases, ITM Antwerp
- Charlotte Gryseels, medical anthropologist, senior researcher in Unit of Socio-Ecological Health Research, ITM Antwerp
- Jean-Jacques Muyembe, virologist and microbiologist, Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Research (INRB), DRC
- Sokha Suon, public health specialist, programme coordinator at National Centre for HIV/AIDS Dermatology and STDs, Cambodia
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