Living Through the Plague: A Conversation with Nicholas Christakis

In the latest episode of our podcast, Two for Tea, editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to epidemiologist, sociologist and doctor Nicholas Christakis about what he calls “the end of the beginning” of the Covid-19 pandemic. We discuss the lifting of restrictions, the trade offs involved, the efficacy of masking, vaccines and boosters and what we can learn as a society from our experiences with Covid.

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Nicholas Christakis

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University, directs the Human Nature Lab and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He conducts research in the fields of network science, biosocial science and behaviour genetics.He is the co-author, with James Fowler, of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives (2009) and the author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (2019) and Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (2020).

Iona Italia

Iona Italia, PhD, is Areo's editor in chief and hosts the associated podcast Two for Tea. A Parsi of mixed Scottish and Indian ancestry, she has lived in five countries and speaks four languages and is a dual citizen of the UK and Argentina. She is the author of Anxious Employment (Routledge, 2003) and the two-part Our Tango World (Milonga Press, 2018). Iona lives in London with old college friends and also spends a lot of time in India.