501 - Meeting America's Public Health Challenge: Recommendations for Building a National Public Health System
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The public health system has been fragmented and haphazard for years, and COVID-19 showed just how consequential a weak system can be. Former FDA Commissioner Peggy Hamburg talks with Stephanie Desmon about a Commonwealth Fund report that looks at how to build a national public health system that addresses ongoing and future health crises, advances equity, and earns trust. Learn more here.
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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 |
| 0:22.1 | to illuminate critical public health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please |
| 0:27.5 | send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhut.edu for |
| 0:35.0 | future podcast episodes. Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. |
| 0:40.9 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Peggy Hamburg, former commissioner of the FDA, |
| 0:45.4 | who recently led a blue ribbon panel for the Commonwealth Fund on the National Public Health |
| 0:50.3 | System. |
| 0:51.2 | They discussed the fractured system laid bare by the COVID pandemic and how we can do a |
| 0:56.1 | better job in the future. Let's listen. Peggy Hamburg, thanks so much for joining me. My pleasure. |
| 1:02.6 | Happy to be with you. So today I wanted to talk about a recent report that you led from the Commonwealth |
| 1:09.8 | Fund on the national public health system. |
| 1:12.5 | What you found was fairly troubling. |
| 1:16.1 | Well, you know, there have been concerns about how to strengthen our public health system for many years. |
| 1:24.1 | But the COVID-19 experience, frankly, really put into stark relief many of the challenges |
| 1:32.8 | of having a fragmented, sometimes haphazard public health system for a nation. |
| 1:40.9 | We can and must do better. |
| 1:43.7 | COVID-19, you know, really stripped away critical issues that need work. |
| 1:51.5 | Challenges with leadership, with coordination, with communication, testing, attention to critical issues in health equity, and more. |
| 2:02.8 | So we felt that this was really the time to take a deeper dive and see if we could |
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