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.hu.edu for future podcast episodes.

Today, I speak with George Escobar, the chief of programs and services at CASA, an immigrant advocacy

organization. We speak about the high rates of coronavirus infections in the Latino immigrant community.

Let's listen.

George, thanks so much for joining me.

Could you start by telling our audience a little bit about what CASA does?

Sure.

And thank you, Josh, for having me on.

So CASA is the largest immigrant services and advocacy organization in the Mid-Atlantic area.

So we have offices all the way

from north-central Pennsylvania through the heart of our membership, which is in Maryland,

and into Northern Virginia. So we provide a wide of variety of services from education,

workforce development, legal and health services. And we do that in the context of engaging people to become members of

organization. By becoming members of the organization, they're able to act collectively to

address a lot of the issues that underlie the reasons where they come to us seeking services

in the first place. That's great. So it's both individual service and advocacy for policy change.

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