020 - Mental Health Support for COVID-19 Health Care Workers

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of a pandemic, resilience is key for health care workers. Dr. Albert Wu, co-director of RISE—Resilience In Stressful Events—an emotional peer support structure at Johns Hopkins Hospital, talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the importance of supporting hospital staff and what can be done to mitigate anxiety and stress in this unprecedented situation.

Learn more: jhsph.edu/covid-19

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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.h. That's public health question at jh.u.edu
0:40.1	for future podcast episodes.
0:42.4	Today, I'm talking to Dr. Albert Wu,
0:45.2	an internist and professor at the Johns Hopkins
0:47.5	Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:49.5	He is co-director of the RISE service
0:51.8	at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
0:53.6	RISE stands for resilience in stressful events.
0:57.7	This service provides support for health care workers.
1:01.2	Let's listen.
1:02.4	Thank you, Dr. Wu, for joining me.
1:04.4	I understand you've been studying the mental health
1:06.3	of caregivers for some time now.
1:08.0	Could you tell me a little bit about that?
1:10.8	Sure.
1:11.2	Well, I'm an internist.
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