369 - How 9-11 and Anthrax Changed Public Health
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the Anthrax events in the weeks that followed, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Dr. Tom Inglesby of the Center for Health Security about the transformational impacts these events had on public health. They discuss what the attacks revealed about the US's vulnerabilities, how an influx of funding helped establish better public health preparedness, and the impacts these may have had on the US's response to COVID-19—for better or worse.
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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. |
| 0:46.3 | Today, as the 20th anniversary of 9-11 approaches, I talk to Dr. Tom Inglesby about the |
| 0:53.8 | transformational impact of those momentous |
| 0:56.3 | events on the field of public health preparedness. |
| 1:00.3 | We discussed the anthrax attacks that followed soon after 9-11, the major investments made |
| 1:05.8 | to protect against manufactured and natural threats to health, and the legacy of these investments for the U.S. |
| 1:12.8 | response to COVID. Dr. Inglesby is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health |
| 1:18.1 | Security and a national leader in this field. Let's listen. Tom Ingleby, it is great to |
| 1:25.6 | have you back on the Public Health On Call podcast. We are talking 20 years after 9-11. Now, 9-11 had enormous consequences, and there's many, many podcasts that could be put together about 9-11. But I want to talk to you about the seismic impact |
| 1:46.2 | that 9-11 had on the field of public health preparedness. |
| 1:50.6 | And starting with this question, why did 9-11 |
| 1:54.9 | have such a seismic impact on the field of public health |
| 1:57.4 | preparedness when it was a terrorist act? |
| 2:00.7 | Well, first of all, Josh, great to see you. |
| 2:02.5 | Great to be with you here on the podcast. |
| 2:04.6 | And congratulations on your amazing success on this platform. |
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