Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Our focus is the novel coronavirus.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.

Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's

news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.

If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhhhue.edu.

That's public health question at jh.h. That's public health question at jh.edu

for future podcast episodes.

Today, I'm speaking with Dr. Gabe Kellan,

professor and chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine

at Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Kellan is also the director of the Johns Hopkins

Office of Critical Event, Preparedness, and Response. In our discussion, Dr. Kellan is also the director of the Johns Hopkins Office of Critical Event Preparedness

and Response.

In our discussion, Dr. Kellyn explains how health systems are preparing for multiple scenarios

related to the novel coronavirus, including the potential for large numbers of critically

ill patients.

Let's listen.

Great, Dr. Kellan, thanks so much for joining me.

Pleasure.

So tell us a little bit about your position here at Johns Hopkins.

So normally my position is as chair of emergency medicine for Johns Hopkins.

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