Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Josh 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 jh.edu.

That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes.

Today's episode is audio from a webcast recorded last week with two members of President

Joe Biden's COVID-19 advisory board,

an alumni of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Infectious disease and epidemiology expert, Dr. Celine Gounder,

and public health policy expert Lois Pace,

talk about the challenges the new administration faces coming into the COVID-19 crisis,

with millions of cases and hundreds of thousands of deaths,

a significant number of Americans who deny the severity of the virus,

a faltering vaccine distribution effort,

and a new and more contagious variant of the virus,

all in the context of a bitterly divided nation. Global Health Now,

editor-in-chief Brian Simpson moderated the conversation. Let's listen. Welcome to this special

broadcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Thank you for joining us.

I'm Brian Simpson, editor-in-chief of Global Health Now. Today, we're talking with two members of

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