007 - From Global to Local: How Local Health Departments Are Managing COVID-19

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

What role do local health departments play in outbreaks and how are they preparing for COVID-19? As Commissioner of the Cuyahoga County Board of Health in Ohio, Terry Allan is responsible for the well-being of over 850,000 people. Allan talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about public trust and the importance of open information sharing, and how ongoing relationship building and past experience help set the stage for protecting people in their communities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhhhue.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.hu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.5	Today I'm speaking to Terry Allen, Commissioner of Health for Cuyahoga County, Ohio,
0:47.9	about how his health department is working to protect the public from the novel coronavirus.
0:53.6	Let's listen.
0:54.9	Commissioner Allen, thank you so much for joining me today to talk about the novel coronavirus.
1:00.8	Glad to be here.
1:01.8	Could you tell us a little bit about the Cuyahoga County Health Department that you lead?
1:06.0	Sure.
1:06.8	We're the responsible for providing public health support for communities in Cuyahoga County
1:12.6	outside of City Cleveland.
1:13.6	It's about 880,000 residents.
1:16.6	We actually have 58 different communities that these residents live in, and so we work on a number
1:21.6	of things also across a five-county region.
1:24.6	So a range of public health responsibilities that involve environmental health issues, prevention issues,
1:30.1	nursing-related issues, and disease response issues.
1:33.5	Well, we've got a big disease response issue
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