Pandemic Pulse

Nikki Teran interviews Stanford Medicine Professor, Dr. Bonnie Maldonado, on the societal factors that lead to health inequality. Dr. Maldonado discusses her projects with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to learn more about the spread of COVID-19 and gather more socially equitable health data. For more details on the nine-month research collaboration across the Bay Area between Stanford, UCSF and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, follow here. Recorded on June 4, 2020. 

Catherine Gu's conversation with Professor Darrell Duffie at Stanford Graduate School of Business, discussing the perils and opportunities of our current macroeconomic condition under COVID19, by taking a deep look into the US debt market to understand the long term implications of public and corporate debt on economic growth, taxation, and financial stability. Darrell's latest paper on redesigning the US Treasury market can be found here. 

The episode also discusses some revolutionary financial innovations happening concurrently under the pandemic, in particular the future of fast payment and central bank digital currencies - the full conversation is covered in a separate Bonus Podcast.

Recorded on May 29, 2020. 

Vandon Duong's conversation with Bianca Mulaney, following from our original episode on the "COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County", addressing sampling methodology and selection bias in their second posting on medRxiv, as well as discussing other research developments including a separate seroprevalence study on baseball leagues. Recorded on May 24, 2020.