249 - COVID-19 and Chicago's Public Schools
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Although private schools and daycares have been open across Chicago since June, public schools are only now preparing to reopen for in-person learning. Dr. Ken Fox, chief health officer and "the district's pediatrician", talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about centering the well-being of kids in reopening, what the science says about how to do things as safely as possible, and his hopes for getting caregivers, teachers, and everyone else on board through transparent communication and a dedication to the kids they all serve.
KEYWORDS: child health; student life; pandemic response
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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, |
| 0:27.8 | community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas |
| 0:34.4 | or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:39.0 | at jh.edu. |
| 0:40.5 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:50.5 | Today, Dr. Josh Sharfstein speaks to Dr. Ken Fox, the chief health officer of Chicago Public Schools. |
| 0:58.2 | Their topic? What else? Opening schools in the pandemic. Let's listen. |
| 1:03.9 | Dr. Fox, thank you so much for joining me to talk about the coronavirus pandemic and the Chicago |
| 1:10.1 | public schools. Could we just start with your explaining what your job is and the Chicago public schools. |
| 1:11.2 | Could we just start with your explaining what your job is |
| 1:14.4 | in the Chicago Public Schools? |
| 1:16.1 | Sure thing. |
| 1:16.9 | Thanks for inviting me. |
| 1:18.1 | It's a delight to talk to you. |
| 1:21.6 | So I am the chief health officer of the Chicago Public Schools. |
| 1:26.2 | Basically, you could think of it like this. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm sort of like the district's pediatrician. |
| 1:30.3 | I lead the Office of Student Health and Wellness. |
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