175 - A Congressional Health Office to Score Federal Legislation
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health professor Keshia Pollack Porter and colleagues recently penned a Health Affairs blog calling for nonpartisan, objective analysis of legislation by a Congressional Health Office. The Office would evaluate and score legislation for intended and unintended impacts on health and equity, help educate policymakers, and advocate for "health in all policies." Dr. Porter talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how such a new office might work, and obstacles to its success.
KEYWORDS: policy; social determinants of health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.8 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public |
| 0:32.5 | health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, |
| 0:38.4 | please email us at public health question at jhhhue.edu. |
| 0:43.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:48.9 | Today, I speak to Professor Keisha Pollock Porter, |
| 0:52.6 | the director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy |
| 0:55.8 | at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:58.9 | Our topic is her latest article co-authored |
| 1:01.8 | on the Health Affairs blog with Kathleen Murphy. |
| 1:05.1 | It's entitled, Time for a Second Public Health Revolution, |
| 1:09.9 | a Congressional Health Office to score federal legislation. |
| 1:14.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:15.6 | Dr. Pollack Porter, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 1:19.6 | You have just co-author this very interesting piece in health affairs |
| 1:24.6 | called Time for a Second Public Health Revolution, a congressional |
| 1:29.5 | office to score federal legislation. |
| 1:33.5 | Tell me about this idea. |
| 1:35.5 | Thanks for having me, Josh. |
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