500 - How Did Mpox Become a Public Health Crisis?
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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In the 500th episode of the Public Health on Call podcast, Dr. Chris Beyrer joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about how yet another virus has escalated to crisis levels in a short period of time. They discuss parallels and differences with the early days of the HIV epidemic, the danger of ignoring health challenges facing the developing world, and the future of public health challenges facing societies worldwide.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:16.9 | and a former health commissioner here in Baltimore. |
| 0:19.7 | Our goal is to bring evidence and experience to illuminate critical public health issues. |
| 0:25.4 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhh.edu. |
| 0:31.5 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:40.5 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health on Call. |
| 0:47.5 | Today, for our 500th episode, an update on the Global Emergency of Monkeypox. |
| 0:55.0 | Dr. Josh Sharfstein speaks to Dr. Chris Byer, the Desmond Tutu Professor of Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins, |
| 1:01.4 | and the incoming director of Duke Global Health Institute. This episode is a little bit longer than our usual interviews, but we think you will agree it's worth it. Let's listen. |
| 1:07.4 | Chris Byer, thank you so much for joining me on Public Health On Call to talk about monkeypox. |
| 1:13.4 | You have been involved in advising the response, is that right? |
| 1:17.6 | Yes, I'm on the WHO Committee, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV, |
| 1:24.4 | viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections. |
| 1:31.3 | So in that role, of course, we are dealing with monkeypox. |
| 1:36.7 | Now is a new emergence with changing epidemiology and more evidence of sexual spread. |
| 1:39.3 | So what is the global picture right now? |
| 1:40.9 | Well, it's really striking. |
| 1:45.8 | This particular emergence appears to have begun in West Africa about five years ago. So 2017 is when there was evidence of this West African clade of |
| 1:52.2 | monkeypox spreading in Nigerian populations. And with a differing epidemiology, not with what |
| 2:00.5 | we've seen in Central Africa, where it's been |
| 2:02.9 | endemic for many years and where many of the cases are in people with exposure to wild animals, |
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