604 - Malaria Advocates Go to D.C.: Meet the Americans Passionate About Ending Malaria For Good
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Malaria infects hundreds of millions of people around the globe each year and kills more than 600,000. But the disease has been eliminated in many of the countries providing significant support in the fight against malaria, like the U.S. For World Malaria Day, Thomas Locke, host of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute's podcast, Malaria Minute, talks with some advocates in the U.S. who are passionate about rallying political support around the fight against malaria and raising the bar for the role young people play in global health advocacy.
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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. |
| 0:22.6 | That's public health question at jhh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.9 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.6 | April 25th is World Malaria Day, and today, Thomas Locke of the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:39.4 | Malaria Research Institute returns to the podcast for another special episode on one of the |
| 0:44.6 | leading causes of preventable deaths and disease worldwide. Let's listen. It's hard to underestimate |
| 0:51.9 | the impact of malaria. The disease infects hundreds of millions of people each year and kills over 600,000. |
| 1:00.0 | That's the equivalent of the entire population of Baltimore being wiped out each year. |
| 1:05.0 | But for those outside of malaria endemic regions, the disease often doesn't come to mind. It's a distant memory for those in the |
| 1:12.5 | U.S. where the disease was eliminated over 70 years ago. But for some Americans, a diverse |
| 1:18.7 | cross-section of society, malaria remains on their radar. My name is Michelle Nelson, and I'm from Texas. |
| 1:26.2 | I'm Julian Neiman from South Carolina. |
| 1:28.6 | Martha Collins from Wisconsin, Ellen Blasey, and I'm from Florida. |
| 1:33.1 | My name is Carrie, Slovamba. |
| 1:34.6 | I'm originally from Zambia, but I go to school in Oklahoma. |
| 1:37.7 | We are in Miami to be malaria! |
| 1:41.2 | And so, on today's podcast, a day ahead of World Malaria Day, we're focusing on advocacy |
| 1:47.0 | in the fight against malaria, because without funding, there can be no malaria fight, no bed nets |
| 1:53.4 | distributed, no homes sprayed with insecticide, and no scientific research to develop new tools. |
| 2:00.4 | So where does malaria funding come from? |
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