043 - COVID-19's Particular Threat to Native American Communities

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Poor health care, lacking infrastructure, and generational poverty combine to make Native Americans especially vulnerable to COVID-19. With previous infectious respiratory illnesses like H1N1, mortality rates were sometimes four to five times higher than US averages among tribal communities. Allison Barlow, director of the Center for American Indian Health, talks to Stephanie Desmon about COVID-19's particular threats to Native Americans, what's being done to help mount a "culturally informed" response, and how the virus is "revealing the cracks in our systems."

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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.
0:43.0	Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Alison Barlow,
0:47.0	who heads the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health.
0:51.1	They discuss the reasons why tribal communities are at particularly high risk for developing
0:57.0	COVID-19 and what is being done to keep them safe.
1:02.0	Let's listen.
1:04.0	I'm here today with Alison Barlow, who heads the Center for American Indian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
1:11.6	Thanks for joining me.
1:13.1	Thank you, Stephanie.
1:14.6	I'd like to start actually with something simple.
1:17.6	I'd like you to tell us a little bit about the center
1:20.6	and why you are so well poised to confront the coronavirus pandemic.
1:26.6	Yes, thank you.
1:28.3	So our Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health was founded in 1991, and it was founded on a decade of previous work that was led by Dr. Matu Santosham to address the infectious diseases of largest priority to American Indian, Alaska, Native
1:46.1	communities.
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