322 - Becoming a PhD During the Pandemic: A Conversation with Asari Offiong
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Graduation is May 25 at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with soon-to-be Dr. Asari Offiong, an expert in the health and wellbeing of adolescents. Dr. Offiong talks about how she came to study public health, how she experienced the tragedy of the pandemic, and how she sees the future.
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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 jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:47.3 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:51.3 | Since March 3, 2020, Public Health on Call has brought you more than 300 episodes |
| 0:56.7 | with evidence and experts to help unpack the days COVID-19 and public health news and what it |
| 1:03.0 | means for tomorrow. This podcast has been downloaded more than 5 million times thanks to listeners |
| 1:09.5 | like you. In our final week of season three, in partnership |
| 1:13.5 | with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, we'll be reflecting in a series of interviews |
| 1:18.2 | on the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. We'll then be back on June 2nd with |
| 1:24.0 | season four, and this summer we'll be releasing three regular episodes a week, |
| 1:28.4 | plus occasional bonus episodes. We'll continue to cover the latest on vaccines, treatment |
| 1:33.8 | breakthroughs, research, and where we are in the COVID-19 pandemic. We'll also cover |
| 1:38.9 | other urgent public health issues, including gun violence, mental health, climate change, and overdose. |
| 1:45.7 | We so appreciate all the great ideas that come from our listeners. |
| 1:49.5 | So keep our public health question at jh.h.edu email handy. |
| 1:54.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu. |
| 1:58.6 | Thank you for being part of this podcast. |
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