451 - Ready Or Not? The Trust For America's Health Report Assessing States' Public Health Emergency Preparedness
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Even as COVID-19 remains a critical public health issue, there are all sorts of emergencies that can occur due to diseases, disasters, and bioterrorism. Dr. Nadine Gracia, CEO of Trust for America's Health, joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein on the podcast to talk about the organization's report, Ready Or Not 2022. The report ranks states on their ability to respond to extreme weather and other crises. Learn more at tfah.org.
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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 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 jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.8 | Ready or not? Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call, and today our topic is how prepared |
| 0:50.1 | states are for public health emergencies. Dr. Josh Sharfstein speaks to Dr. Nadine Grascia, |
| 0:56.6 | president and CEO of Trust for America's Health, an organization that releases ratings and |
| 1:01.4 | rankings of state readiness in a report called Ready or Not. The 2022 report has just come out. |
| 1:08.2 | Let's listen. Dr. Grascia, thanks so much for joining me on public health on call to talk about the new report |
| 1:14.4 | from Trust for America's Health called Ready or Not. My first question is, ready or not, |
| 1:19.5 | for what? Well, thank you, Dr. Sharsteen, with the opportunity to be with you through the podcast today. |
| 1:25.0 | So Ready or Not is Ready or not about public health emergencies and whether |
| 1:28.9 | we as a nation truly are ready for the broad scale of public health emergencies that can arise. |
| 1:34.5 | So we have been through a public health emergency. We're still in a public health emergency, |
| 1:39.8 | according to the emergency declaration. And I think you'd find a lot of people saying that maybe we |
| 1:45.0 | didn't do so well. Is this a report about pandemic preparedness? That's a great question. |
| 1:51.1 | So this report, which assesses a state's level of preparedness to protect residents' health |
| 1:57.0 | during an emergency, it really looks at an all-hazards approach. So this report is not specifically |
| 2:02.5 | about the state's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Emergencies can be a broad scale of areas such as |
| 2:09.7 | weather-related emergencies like hurricanes and tornadoes, record heat, to also looking at other |
| 2:16.4 | types of infectious disease outbreaks. And so what this report |
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