019 - The Social Side of COVID-19: How Individual Behavioral Change Benefits the Greater Community

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The threat of COVID-19 presents a new challenge for citizens of many countries who are not used to government entities directing their behavior. It's also an ideological shift for many: Change your individual behavior for the good of the greater community.

Monica Malta, an alumna of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School, is a social epidemiologist and a global health researcher at the University of Toronto. She examines how responses at local, national, and regional levels—along with individual and community behavioral changes—can change the pace of an outbreak. Malta talks to Stephanie Desmon of the Center for Communication Programs about effective response strategies, why the outbreak looked so different in Italy and Japan despite both countries having aging populations, and what the US and Canada can do to prepare for an uptick in cases.

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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 jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.u.edu
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:42.3	Today, Stephanie Desmond is talking to Monica Malta,
0:45.9	a social epidemiologist and a global health researcher
0:48.9	at the University of Toronto, about responses
0:51.6	to the novel coronavirus at local, local national and regional levels, along with
0:55.8	individual and community behavior changes.
0:58.4	Let's listen.
0:59.9	I'm here today with Monica Malta, a global health researcher and professor at the University
1:05.6	of Toronto.
1:06.7	She is also an alum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
1:11.6	Thank you for being with us today.
1:13.6	Yeah, sure. It's my pleasure to help any way I can.
1:18.6	So I understand that you are a social epidemiologist.
1:23.6	What does that mean? And what do you look for when you see an outbreak?
1:29.8	Yeah.
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