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.u.edu for future podcast episodes.

Today I'm speaking to Dr. Lucy Wilson, Professor of Emergency Health Services at the University

of Maryland, Baltimore County. Dr. Wilson is a leading expert in the area of infection

control. In our discussion, Dr. Wilson explains how nursing homes can address the threat of the novel coronavirus,

as well as how first responders can keep themselves safe. Let's listen.

Dr. Wilson, thank you very much for joining me.

Thank you for having me.

So tell me what your job is right now at

the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. My job at University of Maryland, Baltimore County

is I'm a professor in the Department of Emergency Health Services. I'm also the program director

for the graduate program in that department. And you're an infectious disease doctor? Yes, I am.

And you worked for the state of Maryland.

Yes. What did you do for the state of Maryland? Well, I worked for 10 years at the Maryland

Department of Health, where I was the chief of the Center for Surveillance, Infection Prevention, and Outbreak Response,

which means I responded to infectious diseases, emerging infectious diseases, outbreaks in all types of setting in the

community and hospitals, in nursing homes, and in institutions throughout the state.

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