Data on mortality after a natural disaster is critical to providing pubic officials and others the information necessary to help communities in distress and focus efforts and personnel. This episode will provide insight into the first study after Maria that sought to bring clarity into what really happened even as the local government continued to insist the death count was low. Alexis Santos joins us to discuss his study and also his perspective on what the recent study by Harvard School of Public Health found. To hear more and follow Alexis you can follow him on Twitter at @AppDemography.

Alexis has also been on a few other podcasts providing more perspective – so check those out as well!

LatinoRebels Podcast

Health Affairs Podcast

BBC: Statistics v Politics

After this episode was recorded, the death certificates were finally released to journalists for investigation into the number of deaths after Hurricane Maria. More info here in this CNN article.

For those who wish to stay tuned into that story please follow these people on twitter:

@cpipr @Omayasosa @jdsutter

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