428 - Building Back Public Health in Indiana
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The state of Indiana was focused on bolstering its public health system before COVID-19. The pandemic has only made this work more urgent. Dr. Judy Monroe, former state health officer of Indiana, CEO and President of the CDC Foundation, was tapped by Indiana's governor to co-chair a commission looking at the public health system and making recommendations for future policies. Dr. Monroe talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about these reforms and their implications for the rest of the country. This podcast was produced in collaboration with the CDC Foundation podcast, Contagious Conversations. Learn more at cdcfoundation.org/conversations.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:43.1 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, the topic is building back public health. |
| 0:50.7 | Dr. Sharfstein speaks to Dr. Judy Monroe, the president and CEO of the CDC Foundation. |
| 0:56.5 | They discuss an effort Dr. Monroe is helping to lead in the state of Indiana to set the stage for |
| 1:02.1 | major reform and its implications for the rest of the country. This podcast was produced in |
| 1:07.6 | conjunction with the CDC Foundation podcast, Contagious Conversations. Be sure to |
| 1:12.8 | check out more episodes of contagious conversations available wherever you get your podcasts. Let's listen. |
| 1:20.8 | Dr. Judy Monroe, thank you so much for coming to the Public Health on-call audience today. |
| 1:28.1 | I want to just start by asking you to introduce yourself |
| 1:31.7 | to this group of people. |
| 1:34.5 | Sure. |
| 1:35.0 | Well, first of all, thanks for having me. |
| 1:37.6 | So I'm a public health practitioner at heart. |
| 1:41.2 | I started my career actually as a practicing physician |
| 1:44.0 | in Appalachia and then got into |
| 1:45.6 | medical education, but found myself becoming the state health officer in Indiana when Governor Daniels |
| 1:51.5 | appointed me. And from there, I went to CDC and became deputy director under Tom Frieden, |
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