
The Irish Tech News Podcast Fighting pandemics with Joe Brew the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyfe Part 1
According to the IMF, the cost of the Covid-19 pandemic is set to reach $28 trillion by the end of 2025. Following the toll on both human life and the global economy, major investments will be needed into community diagnostics, to identify and quantify health problems and potential causes for concern, to mitigate another public health crisis of this scale.
Ronan talks to Joe Brew the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyfe. Joe talks about his background, why we were going to have another pandemic, why this won’t be the last pandemic, the paradox of infectious diseases, long covid, the politics of Covid, what Hyfe does and why coughs matter.
More about Joe:
Joe is a scientist, epidemiologist, and economist. He has worked with the Florida Department of Health (USA), the Chicago Department of Public Health (USA), the Barcelona Public Health Agency (Spain), the Tigray Regional Health Bureau (Ethiopia) and the Manhiça Health Research Center (Mozambique). He is now the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyfe.
