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

Last fall, we partnered with the Stoop Storytelling series to present an evening of stories

about the personal impacts of public health.

We are releasing some of those recorded stories as a series, and today in part one,

we hear from two storytellers.

Carolyn Suffren, an OBGYN and medical anthropologist, talks about working with pregnant people

behind bars. Cicely Franklin, an overdose prevention specialist with the Baltimore City Health

Department, talks about the difficulty of providing harm reduction services in her day job

while having a family member with substance abuse issues at home. Let's listen.

Dr. Carolyn Suffern is an OBGYN and medical anthropologist with a joint appointment at the

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the School of Public Health. In 2004, I was a first year OBGY in

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

And I was on call one night, as I was many nights in a row.

And sometime in the middle of my shift, I get a phone call.

Carolyn, come to room four for delivery.

So I'm running down the hall.

And when you're an intern in

OB you really have one goal which is don't drop the baby. So this is what was

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