292 - National Public Health Week Finale: Georges Benjamin on Mending the Broken System Post-COVID-19
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
The theme of this year's National Public Health Week is "Building Bridges to Better Health." Dr. Georges Benjamin, president of the American Public Health Association, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the poor condition of these bridges, from archaic lab technology and a sparse workforce to gross inequities in health care. They discuss what needs to be done to fix the system so these inequities, and current and potential health threats, can be addressed to save lives.
KEYWORDS: health equity; healthcare infrastructure; 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. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:20.2 | 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 |
| 0:33.9 | ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question |
| 0:38.8 | at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.1 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, the producer of Public Health on Call. The theme of this year's |
| 0:51.8 | National Public Health Week is building bridges to better health. |
| 0:55.7 | Dr. Georges Benjamin, president of the American Public Health Association, talks today with |
| 1:00.7 | Dr. Josh Sharstein about the poor condition of these bridges from archaic lab technology and a |
| 1:07.1 | sparse workforce to gross inequities in health care. They discuss what needs to be done to fix the system |
| 1:13.6 | so these inequities and current and potential health threats |
| 1:16.9 | can be addressed to save lives. |
| 1:19.5 | Let's listen. |
| 1:20.8 | Dr. Benjamin, it's great to have you back |
| 1:22.9 | on the Public Health On Call podcast |
| 1:24.9 | and during National Public Health Week. |
| 1:27.5 | Josh, I'm glad to be here. Thanks to having me again. So the theme for National Public |
| 1:32.1 | Health Week is building bridges to better health. And I guess I want to start with the concept |
| 1:38.1 | of a bridge and what condition are our bridges to better health in right now as we're talking in April 2021? |
| 1:47.2 | You know, one of the challenges that COVID-19 has exposed is the fact that both ends of our bridge |
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