617 - Convocation Speaker Dr. Raj Panjabi on Facing Public Health's Unprecedented Challenges
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Raj Panjabi, one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2016, is a physician, professor, epidemiologist, entrepreneur, and public servant currently serving on the White House National Security Council. Dr. Panjabi speaks with Stephanie Desmon about growing up in Liberia and his experience working in West Africa during the first Ebola crisis, preparing for the next pandemic, and his advice for this next generation of public health graduates. Get even more public health news from our twice-weekly Expert Insights newsletter: http://publichealth.jhu.edu/subscribe
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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. |
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| 0:26.6 | For future podcast episodes. |
| 0:29.6 | It's Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:31.6 | Thanks for joining us for season seven of the podcast. |
| 0:34.6 | We'll be off for Memorial Day and returning Wednesday, May 31st, |
| 0:38.7 | for the first episode of Season 8. But first, a quick note about one of our other projects, |
| 0:44.2 | Expert Insights. From the same team that has brought you the Public Health on Call podcast since |
| 0:48.9 | March 2020, expert insights began as a daily newsletter rounding up everything we knew about COVID in that moment. |
| 0:56.0 | Over the last three years, the newsletter evolved and in 2023, the Project won an Anthem Award for being a go-to public health resource. |
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| 1:24.4 | and sign up today. Finally, some thank yous from this season of the |
| 1:28.8 | podcast. Major thanks to Grace Fernandez for stepping in his producer while I was out on family leave, |
| 1:34.9 | and to Annalise Winnie and Rachel Burvell for their work co-producing public health in the field, |
| 1:39.6 | the series on Black Maternal Health. Thank you also to our faithful team of interns, Kriti Baum, Hannah Bennett, and Caroline |
| 1:46.0 | Wang. |
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