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 of 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 jh.h.edu.

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

Today, I speak with Dr. Carlos Castillo-Salgado, a professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health. Over his career at the Pan American Health Organization and Johns Hopkins,

Dr. Castillo Salgado has trained hundreds of epidemiologists in Latin America, the area now

considered the emerging epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. We speak about what's going wrong,

what's going right, and what needs to change fast to save lives.

Let's listen.

Dr. Castillo-Salgado, thank you very much for joining me.

I'd like to ask you first to tell us about your work training epidemiologists in Latin America.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to chair with you and the audience about this

is a particularly training program.

This is the online professional training in epidemiology for ill managers.

That this has been a very innovative when has been designed.

It's a nine-month program that is conducted entirely in Spanish. Currently, we have

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