362 - COVID-19 and Vaccine Mandates
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Why has it come to mandates as a way to get people vaccinated against COVID-19? Stephanie Desmon and Dr. Joshua Sharfstein talk to Saad Omer, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FIDSA, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, about vaccine hesitancy, as well as the benefits and risks of vaccine mandates.
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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. |
| 0:46.4 | This week, Stephanie Desmond and I joined forces to talk with some experts about a hot topic, |
| 0:53.3 | vaccine mandates. |
| 0:55.2 | Hey, Josh. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm looking forward to this. |
| 0:57.0 | First up, Professor Saad Omer, director of the Global Health Institute at Yale and a leading |
| 1:02.3 | researcher on vaccine acceptance. |
| 1:04.9 | Our topic today, the science and strategy of vaccine mandates. |
| 1:10.1 | Let's listen. |
| 1:11.6 | Saad Omer, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:13.6 | Stephanie Desmond, great to have you here too. |
| 1:16.6 | Thanks so much. |
| 1:18.6 | Good to be here. |
| 1:19.6 | So, Stephanie, I'm really looking forward to this conversation |
| 1:22.6 | because I know that Dr. Omer is one of the nation's leading experts |
| 1:26.6 | on vaccine acceptance, vaccine hesitancy. |
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