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 jhh.edu.

That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes.

Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Ronnie Neff, an expert

on food systems in public health at the Johns Hopkins Center

for a livable future.

They discuss why some grocery store shelves are empty

during the pandemic, whether

we will run out of food and what lessons she and others are trying to glean from this crisis.

Let's listen.

Today I'm here with Ronnie Neff of the Johns Hopkins Center for a livable future.

Today we're going to talk about her expertise in food systems and public health, especially

in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Thanks for joining me.

Thank you so much for having me.

So we're all going to the grocery stores and it's seeing at least some empty shelves,

and it's making us all a little worried.

Are we going to run out of food?

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