According to the IMF, the cost of the Covid-19 pandemic is set to reach $28 trillion by the end of 2025. Following the toll on both human life and the global economy, major investments will be needed into community diagnostics, to identify and quantify health problems and potential causes for concern, to mitigate another public health crisis of this scale. As an expert in epidemiology and global health.

Ronan talks to Joe Brew the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyfe. Joe talks about algorithms being better than doctors, AI in medicine, machine learning, the revolution of smartphones, the acoustics of coughs, why sound has a ton of information in it, and the ethics of monitoring and technology.

More about Joe:

Joe is a scientist, epidemiologist, and economist. He has worked with the Florida Department of Health (USA), the Chicago Department of Public Health (USA), the Barcelona Public Health Agency (Spain), the Tigray Regional Health Bureau (Ethiopia) and the Manhiça Health Research Center (Mozambique). He is now the Co-Founder and CEO of Hyfe.

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