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Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

About this episode:

Despite swirling controversy around public health policies, some experts and advocates are finding ways to work together. In this episode: what an unlikely collaboration between a grassroots MAHA organizer and a Yale epidemiologist can teach us about finding common ground for the betterment of people's health.

Guests:

Brinda Adhikari is an award-winning executive producer, showrunner and journalist. She is currently an executive producer and co-host of the podcast, "Why Should I Trust You?".

Tom Johnson is an Emmy award-winning executive producer with experience in documentary series, digital, cable and network news. He is now an executive producer and co-host of the podcast, "Why Should I Trust You?".

Host:

Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Show links and related content:

A Model For Public Health In the Age of Mistrust—Why Should I Trust You?
Our podcast 'Why Should I Trust You?' connects MAHA and public health. Here's what we've learned—STAT
Odd bedfellows: Moving with MAHA from conversation to collaboration—Your Local Epidemiologist
Unfiltered Conversations to Restore Trust in Public Health—Public Health On Call (August 2025)

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
0:05.9	where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges.
0:16.3	If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu.
0:23.8	That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:30.9	Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers.
0:33.0	Today, a conversation with two of the hosts of the Why Should I Trust You podcast.
0:38.1	Brenda Adikari and Tom Johnson join us to talk about their show, which brings together
0:42.5	public health practitioners and members of the Make America Healthy Again movement to talk
0:47.1	about public health issues. We also talk about a partnership that's evolved from these conversations,
0:52.5	pairing public health researchers with community members
0:55.1	in the response to the devastating train derailment that occurred in East Palestine, Ohio.
1:00.8	Let's listen.
1:01.9	Brenda Adikari and Tom Johnson, welcome to Public Health on Call.
1:05.3	How are you?
1:06.1	Doing good.
1:06.9	Yeah, we're doing well.
1:07.7	Let's start with you, Tom.
1:08.5	Would you tell us a little about you?
1:10.0	Yeah.
1:10.7	I've worked in TV journalism news for three decades, two of them at ABC News, a bunch of years
1:17.4	at Bloomberg News, and then I was the showrunner and executive producer of a program on
1:21.8	Showtime and Paramount called The Circus, which is a political doc series.
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