Introduction: Yale’s Modeling and Quantitative Science Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

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• 00:05Welcome everyone to the Yale School of
• 00:07medicines or at Virtual Deans Workshop.
• 00:09Today we have the privilege of hearing
• 00:12from Yale faculty and health care
• 00:14leaders who will highlight yells,
• 00:16modeling and quantitative scientific
• 00:18responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• 00:21After the workshop there will be an online
• 00:23response thread for ideas and questions,
• 00:25so please save any questions
• 00:27you have until then.
• 00:29To begin, I'd like to introduce the Dean of
• 00:32Yale School of Madison Doctor Nancy Brown.
• 00:34Doctor Brown graduated from Yale
• 00:36College and earned her medical
• 00:38degree from Harvard University.
• 00:40She completed internship and residency
• 00:42programs in Madison at Vanderbilt University,
• 00:44where she also did a fellowship
• 00:47in clinical pharmacology.
• 00:48In 2020 she became the Jinan,
• 00:51David W Wallace,
• 00:52Dean of Medison and CNH,
• 00:54long professor of Internet internal
• 00:56Medison at Yale School of Madison.
• 00:58Doctor Brown.
• 00:59Thank you for hosting this workshop.
• 01:06Thank you.
• 01:10I would like to welcome you to the 4th
• 01:14deemed workshop focused on COVID-19.
• 01:17The first workshop.
• 01:18Focus on the process of infection and
• 01:21the immune response to the virus.
• 01:23Our subsequent workshops highlighted
• 01:25the impact of COVID-19 our community.
• 01:29And the heroic efforts.
• 01:31Of our. Patient care workers
• 01:33to care for those patients.
• 01:40Can you start my video here?
• 01:45Well, I guess you won't see me.
• 01:48During both the local acceleration
• 01:49of the pandemic and today,
• 01:51as we experience a decline in the number
• 01:53of cases and strive to reopen safely,
• 01:56we have relied heavily on our modeling.
• 02:00Today, our speakers will focus on
• 02:02modeling as well as quantitative
• 02:04science to predict the trends.
• 02:06To Valuate the effectiveness of our
• 02:08interventions and to guide decisions
• 02:10for the response to the pandemic.
• 02:13This work, like so much
• 02:15that we've seen before,
• 02:17relies on faculty from across
• 02:19the institution and our partners.
• 02:22From the schools of Madison Nursing,
• 02:24Engineering and Applied Science Management.
• 02:26Public Health.
• 02:27And the Oil Institute for global health.
• 02:31So I'd like to welcome you and
• 02:32look forward to hearing from them.
• 02:39Thank you very much. I would now like.