Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins

Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement,

and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day

through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health

officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at

Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future

podcast episodes. Today's episode is audio from a webcast recorded on October 15th with Dr. Anthony Fauci and

Dr. Ellen McKenzie, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

They spoke as part of the inaugural Johns Hopkins Health Policy Forum.

They discussed Dr. Fauci's background with the HIV-AIDS epidemic and parallels to COVID-19, the state of the

U.S. coronavirus response, and how implementing better controls does not necessarily mean brutal

lockdowns. Let's listen.

Hi, I'm Ellen McKenzie, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and I'm honored to be here to launch our quarterly Johns Hopkins Health Policy Forum.

We can think of no better person with whom just began a series of dialogues about health policy than Dr. Anthony Fauci,

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Anthony Fauci back to Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Fauci?

Thank you very much, Dean McKenzie.

It's a real pleasure to be here with you today, and I'm looking forward to our discussion.

This is an extraordinarily important topic that we're dealing with.

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