Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.

Our goal is to bring scientific evidence

and experience to the public health news of the day through informative interviews with scientists,

community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas

or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question

at jhh.edu.

That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.

This week, Public Health on Call commemorates the one-year anniversary of the murder of George

Floyd with five podcasts produced in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity.

Each podcast explores a dimension of the work ahead to eliminate racism in all of its forms.

Today's guest host is Dr. Chidinma, eBay, a faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine,

and the Associate Director for Stakeholder Engagement at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity.

Dr. eBay?

Thanks, Josh.

It's great to be here.

Today we're going to talk about the relationship between police and black and brown young people, which can start as early as elementary school.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union, for example, black students are arrested, suspended, and expelled from school at much higher rates than white students.

These young people are then far more likely to wind up in the juvenile

justice system and ultimately in the criminal justice system. That's why many people are

shining a light on what they call a quote unquote school to prison pipeline. Today I'm speaking

with Professor Otis Johnson of the Johns Hopkins School of Education and the School of Public Health.

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