All in Interviews
Public Safety Informatics
Vic Mensa, Grammy-nominated rapper and activist, and Kevin Booker, Chief of Police for the University of Illinois at Chicago, discuss the nature of the relationship between communities and police - past, present, and potential futures.
Surveillance Informatics
Dr. Kofi Osei, leader of the Pandemic Response Team for the Republic of Ghana, describes the measures that Ghana took in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Surveillance Informatics
Dr. Kenneth Fox, Chief Health Officer for Chicago Public Schools, sat down with Informatics LifeLine’s Elizabeth Mensah for a discussion on the city’s plans for reopening its schools safely.
Surveillance Informatics
Elizabeth Mensah discusses the Chicago Public School plans to adopt online learning due to COVID this fall - and close the digital divide for low income families - with Adrian Segura, Deputy Chief of Family and Community Engagement (FACE2) in Education at Chicago Public Schools.
Healthy Building Informatics
Informatics LifeLine discusses responsible restaurant reopening procedures with Dr. Nicholas Peneff, a certified industrial hygienist, and Dan Bouska, owner of the Finley Dunne’s Tavern in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.
Surveillance Informatics
Dean Wayne H. Giles of the the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health and Acting Director Michael Negron of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity discuss reopening the Illinois economy while avoiding the COVID spikes occurring in Texas and Florida..
Informatics LifeLine’s Susan Laue interviews Dr. Bryant Karras, Chief Informatics Officer, and Maria Courogen, Branch Director for Disease Containment for the Washington State Department of Health on the subject of contact tracing. In this interview, we discuss the basics of contact tracing, then move on to discuss resource needs, informatics applications, resource tradeoffs, funding, training, and measuring success.
