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BONUS - Tradeoffs: Can Creating New Career Pathways Solve Shortages in Long-Term Care?
Season 7
Roughly 10 percent of long-term care workers have left their careers since the start of COVID-19. The shortage in staffing has led to nursing homes t…
3 years, 8 months ago
568 - A New Law To Enhance the Safety of Cosmetics
Season 7 Episode 568
Howard Sklamberg, a former deputy commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, talks to Dr. Sharfstein about legislation passed at the end …
3 years, 8 months ago
567 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Bernadette Demientieff and the People of the Gwich’in Nation Want You To Know That We’re All Connected
Season 7 Episode 567
Guest host Shelley Hearne, director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy, brings us eight miles above the Arctic Circle to talk with Berna…
3 years, 8 months ago
566 - What is "Immunity Debt"?
Season 7 Episode 566
Years of masking and distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic protected many of us from the common cold and flu, and isolation protected children from…
3 years, 8 months ago
565 - A New COVID Landscape in China
Season 7 Episode 565
After years of using a ZERO COVID strategy in China, which led to many lockdowns and economic questions, the country has dropped all COVID restrictio…
3 years, 8 months ago
564 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Howard Frumkin on How Environmental Health = Our Health, and Why There’s Empirical Evidence For Hope
Season 7 Episode 564
Environmental health wasn’t always part of the public health portfolio but in recent years “science caught up to the obvious.” Dr. Howard Frumkin, fo…
3 years, 8 months ago
563 - Controversy over Deaths in Custody
Season 7 Episode 563
Dr. Roger Mitchell, the former chief medical examiner of the District of Columbia, and current chief of pathology at Howard University speaks with Dr…
3 years, 8 months ago
562 - The Pandemic is Not Over
Season 7 Episode 562
As we enter the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Mike Osterholm, a leading expert from the University of Minnesota, talks to Stephanie Desmo…
3 years, 8 months ago
561 - A Supreme Court Case That's a "Big Deal" for Public Health
Season 7 Episode 561
Our guest is Judge David Tatel, who recently took senior status on the U.S. court of appeals for the DC circuit after joining the court in 1994. He w…
3 years, 8 months ago
560 - Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
Season 7 Episode 560
In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau, director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Schoo…
3 years, 8 months ago