345 - How COVID-19 May Change Our Culture For Good
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
The COVID-19 pandemic will change our culture in all kinds of ways, both concrete and conceptual. Coming to work if you're sick, for example, may hopefully be a thing of the past while normalizing mask use during COVID surges may become part of our new future. Conceptually, our culture is changing as more people become aware of how social determinants of health like housing, employment, and education are directly tied to people's wellbeing. Former New York City health commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about these and other cultural changes we may see in the aftermath of the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.5 | Today, I speak to Dr. Oxeri Sparbo, the former health commissioner of New York City, |
| 0:52.1 | and now senior fellow for public health and social |
| 0:55.2 | justice at the JPB Foundation. Our topic is culture as it relates to health and how COVID-19 could |
| 1:03.3 | change not only the way we live our lives, but the way we see one another. Let's listen. |
| 1:10.7 | Dr. Oxiris Barbeau, thank you so much for joining me today |
| 1:14.6 | on Public Health on Call. We're going to talk about culture as it relates to health and whether the |
| 1:21.5 | COVID-19 pandemic is going to make changes in our culture. Let me just start with a basic question. |
| 1:29.8 | What do you think about when you think about culture as it relates to health? |
| 1:34.0 | You know, Josh, and thank you for having me. |
| 1:36.2 | It's a pleasure to be with you. |
| 1:37.8 | I think when we talk about culture, |
| 1:40.4 | it's important to sort of have a frame of reference that it's not this monolithic thing, |
| 1:46.8 | right? It has multiple layers. And I think very clearly through COVID, we've seen the culture of |
| 1:57.6 | infectious disease control play out. |
| 2:01.2 | We've seen, you know, the culture of hospital care play out. |
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