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BONUS - The American Health Podcast: The Public Health Response to Human Trafficking
The Bloomberg American Health Initiative offers full scholarship for MPH and DrPH degrees to people working on the front lines of key challenges to h…
5 years, 3 months ago
329 - Will There Be a Fall 2021 Resurgence of COVID-19 in the US?
Season 4 Episode 319
Dr. Justin Lessler, an infectious disease epidemiologist, returns to the podcast to talk to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the Scenario Modeling Hub’s mod…
5 years, 3 months ago
330 - Gun Violence Prevention: A Focus on Police Violence
Season 3 Episode 330
Police violence is one of the most observable manifestations of structural racism in the US, but is addressing this a matter of finding the “bad acto…
5 years, 3 months ago
328 - Laying the Groundwork for a COVID-19 Commission
Season 3 Episode 328
After 9-11, the US government convened a crisis commission to investigate what happened and why, and to glean lessons to inform crisis prevention and…
5 years, 3 months ago
327 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part V: Disrupting the School-To-Prison Pipeline
Season 3 Episode 327
According to the ACLU, Black students are arrested, suspended, and expelled from school at higher rates than other students and far more likely to wi…
5 years, 4 months ago
326 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part IV: Listening to Young People
Season 3 Episode 326
A recent survey found that 90% of young people support the Black Lives Matter movement’s work to end racism in policing. Guest host Dr. Chidinma Ibe …
5 years, 4 months ago
325 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part III: How Racism Keeps Black Men In Poverty
Season 3 Episode 325
Guest host Dr. Chidinma Ibe talks with Joe Jones, executive director of the Center for Urban Families about the economics of racism in the United Sta…
5 years, 4 months ago
324 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part II: The Link Between Voting Rights And Meaningful Police Reform
Season 3 Episode 324
In the year since George Floyd’s murder, there have been calls for police reform, record voter turnout for a Presidential election, and 360 bills wit…
5 years, 4 months ago
323 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part I: Examining the Psychological Impacts of Racialized Police Violence
Season 3 Episode 323
George Floyd’s murder had an impact on our collective consciousness, and racism by itself is a “biopsychosocial stressor.” Guest host Dr. Rachel Thor…
5 years, 4 months ago
322 - Becoming a PhD During the Pandemic: A Conversation with Asari Offiong
Season 3 Episode 322
Graduation is May 25 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with soon-to-be Dr. Asari Offiong, an expert i…
5 years, 4 months ago