Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,

where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges.

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Hi listeners. I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer Public Health On Call.

Next week, we're launching Climate Mondays, a series of episodes dedicated to hope

and change. Over the next few months, we hope these conversations with leaders working at the

intersection of climate change in public health will bring fresh energy and hope to the topic.

Big thanks to Shelley Hearn, director of the Johns Hopkins Learner Center for Public Health Advocacy

for guest hosting this special series.

We hope you enjoy these interviews.

And as always, we welcome your feedback to our email,

public health question at jhu.edu.

Today, a legal update.

More than six months after the Supreme Court decision striking down a constitutional

right to abortion. Joanne Rosen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

speaks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what's happening in states and at the federal level.

She also explains efforts to address other threats to constitutional rights, including the

recently passed Respect for Marriage Act. Let's listen. Joanne, Rosen, thank you so much for coming

back to public health on call. It was about six months ago that the Dobbs decision was released by

the Supreme Court, which ended the constitutional right to an abortion,

and left it up to the states.

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