In this episode, Jason Foster speaks with Dr. Johanna Hutchinson, UK Health Security Agency’s Director of Analytics & Data Science and DataIQ’s third most influential person in Data (dataIQ 100 The Most Influential People in DATA 2021), about using data to manage the UK's COVID response. The collection of data and information has become crucial to fight the worldwide health crisis brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Johanna talks about the data management of National Health Security in the first months of the pandemic, managing the impact of the pandemic and advice given by the Joint Biosecurity Centre during the early pandemic times.