Welcome to Season 4 of 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 Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City.

Our goal is to bring

scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging 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 jhhhu.edu.

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

Hey, public health on call listeners. You're invited to join us virtually on Wednesday, November 10th,

for the 2021 Bloomberg American Health Summit.

This year's theme, Public Health Visible. You'll hear from great speakers and take in provocative

discussions about major challenges facing health in the United States, including COVID,

overdose, violence, climate, health problems facing immigrant children, and the broken

food system. You can join the live stream at 9.30 a.m. Eastern Time on November 10th. Learn more

at Americanhealth.j.j.u.edu. That's Americanhealth.j.u.org. Today, Josh Sharfstein checks back in with Dr. Preeti Malani, the chief health

officer of the University of Michigan. They talk about how much better life is on campus this semester,

thanks to the vaccine. Let's listen. Dr. Preeti Malani, thank you so much for coming back to tell us how it's going at the University

of Michigan this year.

Thanks for having me. It's really good to be back and things are very good this year.

I'm glad to report that that it is a big contrast to last year where, frankly, a lot of

this just seemed impossible. And the biggest difference is not a surprise. It's vaccination.

So let's go back to when we spoke before. There were many things you were doing to try to reduce

transmission.

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