443 - How Russia May Impose Deadly Public Health Policies on Ukraine
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Based on past conflicts, if Russia takes over in Ukraine, it's likely that some of Ukraine's public health policies will be essentially rewritten or revoked overnight. Dr. Chris Beyrer returns to the podcast to talk with Stephanie Desmon about Russia's history of revoking life-saving public health policies and imposing its own "traditional" laws like targeting homosexuals for harrassment and assault, cruel detox practices for people who use drugs, decriminalizing domestic abuse, and more violations of human rights. A content warning that the podcast contains discussions of these and other examples of violence.
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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. |
| 0:41.7 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of Public Health on Call. Today, our guest is Chris |
| 0:47.3 | Beir, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He talks to |
| 0:52.1 | Stephanie Desmond about the crisis in Ukraine and notably what could happen to public health and human rights. He talks to Stephanie Desmond about the crisis in Ukraine, and notably, |
| 0:56.0 | what could happen to public health and human rights if Russia is successful in its campaign |
| 1:00.5 | to take control of the country? Let's listen. Chris Beyer, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:07.4 | Thanks, Stephanie. Good to be with you. So today I want to shift gears from some stuff we normally |
| 1:12.5 | talk about to talk about the situation in the Ukraine and with Russia. And I know that there are |
| 1:21.6 | concerns about the public health and human rights history |
| 1:27.9 | of Vladimir Putin's Russia. |
| 1:30.6 | And I'm curious as you watch what's going on over there, |
| 1:33.5 | what your thoughts are. |
| 1:35.2 | Well, I think we're all, of course, very concerned |
| 1:38.5 | about what is happening in Ukraine, to the Ukrainian people. |
| 1:43.7 | And of course, also now to the over 2 million refugees who fled, |
| 1:48.1 | about 2.3 million at this point, half of whom are children. So it's really been women and children |
| 1:53.6 | who are fleeing. Now, there are some special aspects to this, and I would highlight perhaps three. The first is that as we've seen, |
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