251 - Dr. José Ramón Fernández-Peña and How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Impacting Pre-Med and Undergraduate Students
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
COVID-19 has increased awareness of public health, health inequities, and shortcomings of the US health system, but it may also negatively impact college students in terms of opportunities for personal and professional growth. Dr. José Ramón Fernández-Peña, APHA President and Northwestern's director of Health Professions Advising, talks with Stephanie Desmon about how the pandemic is affecting undergraduate students, an increasing interest in and appreciation of public health work, and how this "disaster time" may be forcing students to grow up faster while robbing them of vital experiences to develop some skills and pursue professional opportunities.
KEYWORDS: student life; college; health equity
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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 at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.3 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health on Call. |
| 0:51.1 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Jose Ramon Fernandez-Pena, president of the American |
| 0:57.1 | Public Health Association, and director of health professions advising at Northwestern University. |
| 1:03.0 | They discuss what it's like to be a college student during COVID-19, and the deeper understanding |
| 1:07.9 | about public health he's seeing in the undergrads he serves today. |
| 1:11.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:12.6 | Jose Ramon Fernandez Pena. Thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:17.6 | Very nice to be here. |
| 1:19.6 | I wanted to talk to you sort of about both of your jobs today. |
| 1:23.6 | I know that you do counseling for undergrads who are interested in health professions. |
| 1:30.3 | And I wanted to hear about how things may be different during the pandemic. |
| 1:38.3 | Well, there's many ways in which the pandemic affects our students who are interested in all students, |
| 1:43.3 | but of course we work with students who are interested in all students, but of course we work with students |
| 1:45.0 | who are interested in health professions, primarily medicine, but also other sorts of health |
| 1:49.3 | professions. Certainly, many of our students look for volunteer opportunities, internship opportunities, |
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