From Plague Bills To Predictive Algorithms
health metrics
data science
Podcast episode tracing health intelligence from John Graunt’s Bills of Mortality to DALYs, machine learning, and outbreak prediction.
Episode Overview
This podcast episode traces health intelligence from historical death records to modern predictive algorithms. It links John Graunt’s Bills of Mortality with burden-of-disease metrics, DALYs, machine learning, and outbreak forecasting.
From death records to predictive algorithms.
This episode traces 400 years of health intelligence—from counting who died to forecasting what comes next.
We move from John Graunt’s 17th-century Bills of Mortality, through modern burden-of-disease metrics like DALYs, to today’s machine-learning models that learn from data to anticipate outbreaks and inform prevention.
Key Topics Discussed
- Data-driven insights
- Health metrics analysis
- Innovative approaches to public health