240 - Considering Ethics and Equity in Vaccinating a Nation—A Two-Part Episode
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In a special two-part episode, we look at considerations of ethics and equity in vaccinating a nation.
In part one, Stephanie Desmon talks to Johns Hopkins ethicist Dr. Ruth Faden about the ethics of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and choosing who is and who isn't eligible to be vaccinated in the near term. They also talk about what happens when someone jumps the line to get what is, for now, a scarce commodity.
In part two, Dr. Josh Sharfstein speaks with Dr. Chidinma Ibe, an assistant professor of medicine and the associate director for stakeholder engagement of the Center for Health Equity at Johns Hopkins. They discuss equity in vaccine distribution, or why we have to do more than just count the number of vaccinations.
KEYWORDS: supply chain; vaccine hesitancy; social determinants of health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
| 0:22.4 | and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists, |
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| 0:47.2 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, the producer of Public Health on Call. |
| 0:51.1 | Thank you for joining us for Vaccine Week on the podcast. |
| 0:55.6 | Today, in a special two-part episode, we look at considerations of ethics and equity in vaccinating a nation. In part |
| 1:01.8 | one, Stephanie Desmond talks to Johns Hopkins ethicist Dr. Ruth Faden about the ethics of COVID-19 |
| 1:08.6 | vaccine distribution and choosing who is and who isn't eligible to be |
| 1:13.5 | vaccinated in the near term. They also talk about what happens when someone jumps the line to get |
| 1:18.9 | what is, for now, a scarce commodity. In part two, Dr. Josh Sharfstein speaks with Dr. Chedinma |
| 1:25.5 | eBay, an assistant professor of medicine and the associate |
| 1:28.9 | director for stakeholder engagement of the Center for Health Equity at Johns Hopkins. |
| 1:34.1 | They discuss equity in vaccine distribution or, put another way, why we have to do more than just |
| 1:40.2 | count the number of vaccinations. Let's listen. Ruth Faden, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:45.9 | My pleasure, Stephanie. |
| 1:47.5 | So, Ruth, you are an ethicist, and we're talking a lot these days about the COVID vaccines |
| 1:53.9 | that are out. |
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