Quintus-ential Solutions, Social Network Analysis, and Public Health Database Design
Description: Newest website for John Potterat, epidemiologist formerly with the El Paso County Health Department
"When asked to recount a typical vignette (as I was several times by curious friends), unsurprisingly the most alarming and graphic are the easiest to recall. Thankfully, these melancholic stories are far outweighed by a message in the bulk of the anecdotes: respect and compassion. ...the authors have presented the perfect balance of scandalous and light-hearted stories. If you're looking for a book that has you simultaneously delighted and appalled and doesn't sugarcoat the gritty world of epidemiological
—Charlotte Leigh, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Book Review Section, vol. 18 (Jun 2018), p. 613
"Part memoir, part tribute to the art of contact tracing, the book is a testimony to Potterat's tremendous faith in his subject, and his results speak for themselves in terms of distribution analysis and subsequent successes in STD curtailment. The current scarcity of contact tracing application certainly seems a shame, because understanding the transmission patterns of any disease remains a highly logical step on the road to curing it."
Quintus-ential Solutions, Social Network Analysis, and Public Health Database Design