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428 - Building Back Public Health in Indiana
Season 5 Episode 428
The state of Indiana was focused on bolstering its public health system before COVID-19. The pandemic has only made this work more urgent. Dr. Judy M…
4 years, 7 months ago
427 - Candida auris: A Yeast to Fear
Season 5 Episode 427
Candida auris is a species of yeast that is increasingly becoming a hospital-acquired drug-resistant infection. Dr. Tara Palmore, the hospital epidem…
4 years, 7 months ago
426 - Why Are Health Disparities Everyone’s Problem?
Season 5 Episode 426
Dr. Lisa Cooper, a forward-thinking national leader in health equity, returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about her new book, Why…
4 years, 7 months ago
BONUS - The 2022 Pandemic Olympics
Season 5
The Beijing Winter Olympics kicks off this week in a much different pandemic context than the Tokyo Summer Olympics six months ago. Former Olympian a…
4 years, 7 months ago
425 - The Supreme Court, COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, and OSHA’s Charge to Keep Worker’s Safe
Season 5 Episode 425
The Supreme Court recently dealt a blow to vaccine mandates for larger employers, saying OSHA had overstepped in requiring employees to be vaccinated…
4 years, 7 months ago
424 - So You Want to Lead a Public Health Agency?
Season 5 Episode 424
Public health leaders are tasked with enormous jobs which have been made even more difficult during the pandemic. Dr. Jay Varma, physician and adviso…
4 years, 8 months ago
423 - Assessing the World's Knowledge of COVID-19: A Global Survey of Attitudes and Behaviors Towards the Virus, Vaccines and More (Season 5)
Season 5 Episode 423
To understand what is driving beliefs and behaviors around the world, the Johns Hopkins Center for Communications Programs created a global dashboard…
4 years, 8 months ago
422 - Rehabilitation and Care for People With Long-COVID, or PASC (Post-Acute Sequela of COVID)
Season 5 Episode 422
Some COVID patients continue to suffer from symptoms long after the initial infection clears. The formal name for "long COVID" is Post-Acute Sequela …
4 years, 8 months ago
421 - Why Omicron Is Such “A Different Animal” When It Comes to COVID and Kids
Season 5 Episode 421
Although the majority of children who catch COVID recover without incident, some progress to multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), thousands wi…
4 years, 8 months ago
420 - “Dangerously Unprepared”: Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo on the Global Health Security Index’s Newest Findings
Season 5 Episode 420
The Global Health Security Index, released by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, looks at every country’…
4 years, 8 months ago