408 - Public Health Forward: A Bipartisan Report About the Future of the Public Health System
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Public health is having a moment, both in terms of challenges and opportunities. Dr. Anand Parekh, the chief medical adviser to the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington DC, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about a new report, Public Health Forward, that aims to keep public health top of mind for policymakers and the American public. They talk about why this is a critical moment to think about the future of the public health system, the process behind the bipartisan project, and some major takeaways from the report.
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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. |
| 0:46.8 | Hi listeners. I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. Since March 3rd, |
| 0:53.0 | 2020, Public Health On Call has brought you more than 400 |
| 0:57.0 | episodes with evidence and experts to help unpack the days COVID-19 and public health news |
| 1:03.0 | and what it means for tomorrow. As we wind down season four, we have a few thank yous. |
| 1:08.0 | First, a big thank you to our interns, Kelly Corcoran, Caroline Wang, |
| 1:13.6 | Alyssa, and Hannah Bennett, who bring fresh ideas and much-needed support for the podcast. |
| 1:19.9 | We'd also like to thank you, our listeners, for sharing your ideas and questions and for downloading |
| 1:25.4 | this podcast more than six million times. |
| 1:28.8 | We're taking a break starting December 23rd, and we'll be back on January 3rd with season |
| 1:33.8 | five of public health on call. We'll continue to cover the latest on COVID vaccines, |
| 1:39.3 | treatment breakthroughs, and research. We'll talk about living with COVID and what our world might look like going |
| 1:45.6 | forward as we move from pandemic crisis to endemic virus. We'll also cover other urgent public |
| 1:52.4 | health issues, including racism, gun violence, mental health, climate change, and overdose. |
| 1:59.5 | We so appreciate all the great ideas that come from our listeners, |
| 2:03.2 | so please keep writing us at public health question at jh.h.org. And thank you for being part of this |
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