351 - A Vaccine with that Haircut? Barber Shops and the Fight Against COVID-19
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Stephen Thomas, the director of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity, works with barber shops in the African-American community to offer health services. Mike Brown, a barber and a certified community health care worker, works with Dr. Thomas to provide vaccines in his barber shop. They talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the community role of barber shops, the importance of community trust, and lessons for other public health efforts.
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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 jh.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.5 | Today, we're headed to Prince George's County, Maryland, to learn what happens when |
| 0:51.0 | barbershops and beauty salons serving the African-American community get |
| 0:55.7 | behind the COVID vaccination effort. |
| 0:59.1 | I speak with Dr. Stephen Thomas, a public health professor |
| 1:02.3 | and director of the Center for Health Equity |
| 1:04.8 | at the University of Maryland. |
| 1:06.6 | Joining Dr. Thomas is Mike Brown from the Shop Spa of Hyattesville, Maryland. |
| 1:11.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:13.6 | Well, I am really looking forward to this conversation, and I think I want to ask Stephen Thomas and Mike Brown, my two guests, to introduce themselves and tell the listeners where you are right now. |
| 1:30.3 | Start with you, Dr. Thomas. |
| 1:32.3 | Well, first of all, Josh, thank you so much for invited me on your podcast. |
| 1:37.1 | I've been listening to your episodes, and this is an honor. |
| 1:40.2 | I'm right now in my home office in College Park, Maryland. |
| 1:44.9 | I'm about nine miles from the White House inside the Capitol Beltway. |
| 1:48.7 | And for your audience, I've got my green screen on, |
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