290 - We Stand With Public Health Part 3: The Challenges Facing Health Departments
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In a special 4-part series excerpted from a webcast, we look at the extraordinary challenges facing the field of public health in the COVID era. Today, Dr. Sara Cody, Health Officer and Director of the Santa Clara Public Health Department in California; Jennifer Kertanis, Director of Health at Farmington Valley Health District in Connecticut; and Lisa Macon Harrison, Health Director of the Granville-Vance Health Department in North Carolina talk about their experiences with harassment and what needs to be done to protect public health workers. Then, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Dr. Joneigh Khaldun of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services about fallout from this crisis and signs of hope from a new administration.
KEYWORDS: misinformation; pandemic response; policy
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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 jh.h.edu. |
| 0:41.1 | That's public health question at jh.hU.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.3 | Harassment online. |
| 0:49.1 | Harassment in person. |
| 0:50.8 | Threats of violence and even violence itself. |
| 0:53.8 | In the last year amid the pandemic, public health |
| 0:56.4 | workers have experienced more direct attacks than at any time in the previous century. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. This week, as part of National Public |
| 1:07.3 | Health Week, we're bringing you a special four-part series with episodes excerpted |
| 1:12.1 | from a webcast from last month. The webcast was produced in collaboration with the Association |
| 1:17.6 | of State and Territorial Health Officials, known as Asto, the National Association of County |
| 1:23.6 | and City Health Officials, known as NCHO, and the Big Cities Health Coalition. |
| 1:29.1 | In this series, we will explore the extraordinary challenges facing the field of public |
| 1:33.5 | health in the COVID era. We'll hear from health officers on the front lines about their |
| 1:38.1 | experiences, from researchers about the scale of the problem, and from the leaders of Asto, |
| 1:46.1 | NACO, and the Big Cities Health Coalition about what is to be done. In part three, we hear from Dr. Sarah Cody, Jennifer Catanus, |
| 1:54.3 | and Lisa Macon Harrison about what they've seen in terms of harassment and how to counter it, |
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