Episodes

  • Episode 119: Making Datasets Talk To Each Other

    Episode 119: Making Datasets Talk To Each Other
    Jul 19 2021
    In this episode, Prof. S V. Subramanian, Professor of Public Health & Geography joins me to talk about why granular data matters, and how is team is helping fix the lack of it.
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    14 mins
  • Episode 118 - India's Data Deficit

    Episode 118 - India's Data Deficit
    Jul 14 2021
    In this episode, I speak to the economists Paul Novosad and Sam Asher about the challenges with data in India and their work with the Development Data Lab
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    13 mins
  • Episode 117 - Vaccines and Variants Part II

    Episode 117 - Vaccines and Variants Part II
    May 31 2021
    In this episode, I interview the Financial Times's data journalist John Burn-Murdoch about new data from the UK on the effectiveness of vaccines against the new B.1.617.2 variant first seen in India
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    15 mins
  • Episode 116 - Vaccines and Variants Part I

    Episode 116 - Vaccines and Variants Part I
    May 28 2021
    In this episode, I look at the inaccurate data that the Indian government presented on vaccine effectiveness and new data that's been published in the UK. So what do we know now about the effectiveness of our vaccines against the new variant?
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    9 mins
  • Episode 115 - The Variant Story

    Episode 115 - The Variant Story
    May 20 2021
    In this episode, I look at the role that variants have played in the pandemic, and examine the evidence on B.1.617
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    12 mins
  • Episode 114: The Road Ahead

    Episode 114: The Road Ahead
    May 15 2021
    After a short break, the podcast returns to take stock of India's horrifying second wave, and pictures the road ahead.
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    7 mins
  • Episode 113: This One Year

    Episode 113: This One Year
    Mar 25 2021
    It's been exactly one year since our first episode, and in this episode, I reflect on the year gone by.
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    10 mins
  • Episode 112 - Did We Go Too Far With Sero-surveys?

    Episode 112 - Did We Go Too Far With Sero-surveys?
    Mar 22 2021
    We've relied on sero-surveys for a lot of our understanding of the pandemic. Did we take the certainty too far? Dr Anup Malani who has led several of the Indian sero-surveys joins me.
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    13 mins