Covid is a real time intelligence with early threat fication to answer the question, what do we do now? And who is thew in that equation? Its businesses, its economies, its enterprise. Most enterprises stood up essentially a duck tape together public health department. The only way to do that was by individual vigilance of watching web sites and looking at data from different countries across the world. It's an interesting analogue to probablistic risk thinking and disease control. Public health company is sort of using the same kinds of techniques for disease forecasting.
Charity Dean was one of the first public health officials to set the alarm on COVID. When she searched for a tool to forecast future bio threats, she realized that it didn’t exist yet. So she co-founded the Public Health Company, where she uses lessons from her government experiences, but without the same rules or limits. She speaks with Bob Safian about why all companies must be public health companies.
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