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.h. That's public health question at jh.u.edu

for future podcast episodes.

Today, Dr. Colleen Berry, the chair of the Department

of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health talks

with Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, an associate dean and public health statistician,

and Dr. Carey Altaff, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins. In addition to being faculty members,

all three are parents of elementary school-age children who are heading into a summer that

has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic.

They discuss a framework for making parenting decisions through the summer months.

Let's listen.

Carrie and Liz, thank you so much for joining me today.

The three of us share a couple of things in common.

We're all faculty members at Johns Hopkins

and also parents of younger children. My social networks are a buzz with questions about how families,

especially those like ours with younger children in the home, are making decisions for the summer.

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