576 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Natalia Linos on Why We Should Embrace the Fact That "All Public Health Is Political"
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Today, guest host Shelley Hearne, director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy, talks with Natalia Linos, a social epidemiologist and executive director of Harvard's FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and 2020 Congressional candidate. Linos talks with Hearne about why "all public health is political," how to approach politics as a public health professional, and the importance of not only naming climate change problems, but getting involved with them "at every level" to advance change.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.9 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:35.9 | Today, guest host Shelley Hearn talks with Natalia Linos, a social epidemiologist, an executive |
| 0:41.7 | director of Harvard's FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, and a 2020 congressional |
| 0:46.9 | candidate. |
| 0:48.1 | They discuss why all public health is political, how to approach politics as a public health |
| 0:53.6 | professional, and the |
| 0:55.0 | importance of not only naming climate change problems, but getting involved with them at every |
| 1:00.5 | level to advance change. Let's listen. |
| 1:04.9 | So I want to cover a lot of ground with you, Natalia, And we are going to go from global to local. |
| 1:12.8 | Are you ready? |
| 1:14.6 | I'm ready, Shelly. |
| 1:16.0 | I am so excited. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm going to try to quickly encapsulate your background because it's a unique one. |
| 1:24.5 | It's an interest one. |
| 1:25.5 | And I want more people to be like you. So here's the, |
| 1:30.2 | here's the warm up stuff. You're a social epidemiologist who has worked on climate at the top |
| 1:36.4 | echelons within the United Nations Development Program. You've been a thought leader with Dr. Mary |
| 1:42.2 | Bassett and you've been working on racism and equity. |
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