Talking Tuesday: My Spanish is not very pretty these days
Growing up, mom used to make me speak English well or Spanish well, but never both. I thought I spoke good Spanish, until I came to Colombia. My Spanish is different, and, in translating a document...
View ArticleTalking Tuesday: Norovirus
If you have ever had Norovirus, then you will remember it for a while. Let me tell you about it, and tell you to wash your hands once, twice, and three times. Listen to this, then go wash your hands....
View ArticleTalking Tuesday, On A Saturday, In A Blizzard
What else was I going to do while I waited out the great Northeast Blizzard of 2016 but do a podcast? And what is a better way to do it than to invite a couple of friends to chat with? I used a new app...
View ArticleTalking Tuesday: Catch-Up Edition
The best kinds of friends are those who you can lose contact with for months and then catch-up with quickly over some coffee or hot tea or hot chocolate... Or a beer. In this episode, I try to catch-up...
View ArticleTalking Tuesday: Spanish Interview on Flu Edition
Back in 2010, right before the flu season started, the bosses at the health department allowed me to do an interview with an AM radio station out of Washington, DC. The interviewer was awesome, and she...
View ArticlePodcast: October 2016 Update
Yeah, yeah… It’s been a while. I missed you too. Here’s 12 minutes of me catching you up on what happened this summer with dad getting cancer, me picking up cycling and swimming, and taking some exams....
View ArticleTalking Tuesday on a Friday: June Update!
A few minutes where I catch you up on the craziness around me. Nothing bad, mostly good... Thanks for your time. Hope you enjoy it.
View ArticleEpidemiological Podcast S0E1: The Perfect Epidemiological Surveillance System
Today, I thought I'd share with you a 15-minute presentation I gave in Mexico City last about two weeks ago. It was on a paper I wrote based off a previous blog post. I talk about what I imagine to be...
View ArticleEpidemiological Podcast S0E2: The Weight of the Evidence
On today's podcast, I talk to you about a recent tragedy in our family and how it helped me understand anti-vaccine parents a little more. Not completely, but just enough to realize that there is very...
View ArticleEpidemiological Podcast S0E3: Hi, I’m a Doctor
A quick 9-minute story of last Wednesday, the day I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation. It was quite a "day of days," and it ended very well. It brought together five years of hard work. So...
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