468 - Dr. Tom Inglesby Returns From the White House COVID Team

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Since February 2021, Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security, has been working with HHS as part of the government response to COVID-19. Now, Dr. Inglesby returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what he learned from inside government, the importance of renewed funding from Congress, the potential of test-to-treat programs, and his assessment of the state of the pandemic.

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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 jhut.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.9	Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call, and today Dr. Tom Inglesby
0:47.6	returns to the podcast from his work in the White House. He speaks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about
0:53.0	what he learned in government,
1:11.6	the state of the pandemic today, and why Congress needs to move quickly to appropriate more funds for the response. Let's listen. Dr. Tom Inglesby, it is so great to have you back on public health on call. It's been a while. It's great to be with you, Josh. Yeah, it has been a while. Glad to be back on the show.
1:13.6	Now, you're not just back on the show.
1:28.7	You're back at Johns Hopkins. You want to tell our listeners what you've been up to lately? Yeah, so back in December, I was set to come back from HHS to Johns Hopkins, but then I got asked to join the White House COVID team for some months. So I was with the White House COVID team from December until about two weeks ago. And then I came back to Johns Hopkins, back to our
1:33.4	Center for Health Security. So you were at HHS for how long? I was at HHS from February until
1:40.6	December. I was working some part-time at Johns Hopkins in the fall, but on the HHS COVID team from February until December, in one form or another.
1:49.6	So it's been really over a year since you've been back full-time at Johns Hopkins and able to spare some time for the podcast.
1:56.8	So I guess my first question, though, is what's it like in there?
1:59.9	What's it like to be part of the government response to a pandemic?
2:04.4	It was really compelling work.
2:06.7	I was, first of all, really impressed with the people who work in government on a permanent
2:14.4	basis, the civil service.
2:15.8	They really keep the government running.
2:18.1	They are this experts in budget and legal and in program management.
2:23.0	And so it was a real treat and an honor to work with that team of people.
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