1048 - Understanding and Ending Violence

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, Health & Fitness, News

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

About this episode:

What would change if we thought of violence as an infectious disease? In this episode: a trailblazer in the movement for community-based solutions to violence, Dr. Gary Slutkin, explains how treating violence like an epidemic can point the way to solutions.

Guest:

Dr. Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist who founded the organization Cure Violence Global. He is also the author of the book "The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic."

Host:

Dr. Josh Sharfstein is distinguished professor of the practice in Health Policy and Management, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Show links and related content:

Estimating the Effects of Safe Streets Baltimore on Gun Violence—Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions
Interrupting Violence: How the CeaseFire Program Prevents Imminent Gun Violence through Conflict Mediation—Journal of Urban Health
The End of Violence: Eliminating the World's Most Dangerous Epidemic—Penguin Random House (book)

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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.
0:31.4	It's Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call.
0:34.5	Today, seeing violence as an infectious disease.
0:39.2	Dr. Gary Slutkin is a physician and epidemiologist and the founder of Cure Violence, a community violence intervention
0:44.0	program that started in Chicago and has been implemented in cities around the world. He joins
0:49.5	Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about his new book, The End of Violence, Eliminating the World's Most
0:54.9	Dangerous Epidemic.
0:56.5	They start with some personal history, where Dr. Slutkin introduced the idea of treating
1:00.7	violence as an infectious disease to Baltimore about 20 years ago when Dr. Sharfstein was
1:06.3	serving as Health Commissioner of the City.
1:08.9	Let's listen.
1:10.0	Dr. Gary Sletkin, thank you so much for joining me today in Public Health on call.
1:14.2	How are you doing today?
1:15.9	I'm doing wonderful today.
1:17.4	How are you doing?
1:18.2	I'm doing okay.
1:19.6	I'm doing okay.
1:20.5	I'm doing better now that I get to see you.
1:22.7	I'm trying to think how long it's been since we first met.
	...

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