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559 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Gina McCarthy On Helping People Want Change Without Being Afraid of It
Season 7 Episode 559
Today, guest host Shelley Hearne, director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy talks with former EPA leader and inaugural White House Nat…
3 years, 8 months ago
558 - “It Was Compromised": The Trump Administration and CDC, with Congressman Bill Foster
A report from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis sheds light on disturbing instances of the Trump administration’s politicization of s…
3 years, 9 months ago
557 - What’s Happening With Abortion Access Six Months After the SCOTUS Decision
Season 7 Episode 557
Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, there’s been a flurry of activity at the state levels to protect, significantly restrict, or ban abortion. Legal a…
3 years, 9 months ago
556 - Backstage at Public Health On Call: 2022 Year in Review with Dr. Josh Sharfstein and Stephanie Desmon
Season 6 Episode 556
In the last episode of Season 6, Lindsay Smith Rogers talks with co-hosts Dr. Josh Sharfstein and Stephanie Desmon about 2022: how it started, what h…
3 years, 9 months ago
555 - Special Episode—Conversations on Critical Topics: The Bloomberg American Health Summit
Season 6 Episode 555
Last week, hundreds of public health leaders and scholars gathered in Philadelphia for the annual Bloomberg American Health Summit and to discuss cri…
3 years, 9 months ago
554 - A Bleak Winter? Modeling the Next Six Months of COVID, Flu, and RSV
Season 6 Episode 554
Dr. Shaun Truelove, an infectious disease epidemiologist, returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the latest models for the COV…
3 years, 9 months ago
553 - The World's Most Dangerous Fungi
Season 6 Episode 553
For the first time, the WHO released a report of fungal “priority pathogens” that are causing invasive diseases in humans and are becoming more preva…
3 years, 9 months ago
552 - The Historic Floods in Pakistan
Season 6 Episode 552
Guest host Bilal Khan, a Johns Hopkins public health student who recently worked as an advisor to senior public health leaders in Pakistan, talks wit…
3 years, 9 months ago
551 - The Massachusetts Pediatric Injury Equity Review—A New Process for Reviewing Pediatric Injuries in Order to Prevent Them
Season 6 Episode 551
Unintentional injuries like auto and firearm accidents, drownings, and poisonings, are the leading causes of death in US children over age 1. Dr. Sad…
3 years, 10 months ago
550 - ”Take Nothing For Granted With This Virus”—The Latest on COVID Treatment and Vaccines
Season 6 Episode 550
COVID-19 infections may look different in 2022 than they did in 2020, thanks to vaccines, infection-induced immunity, and new treatments—but that doe…
3 years, 10 months ago