634 - Vital Talks: What if Public Health Fueled Social Reform Movements
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Public health has a long history of activism in social movements and new overlaps took hold in the last few years with COVID-19 and social unrest. In Vital Talks, a podcast from Vital Strategies, Shelley Hearne returns to the podcast along with former Bloomberg School deans Al Sommer and Mike Klag and colleagues to consider the challenges of the current moment and talk about how the field of public health can work differently towards a healthier world. Learn more about Vital Strategies here: https://www.vitalstrategies.org/
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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. |
| 0:21.6 | Jh.edu. |
| 0:23.6 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:29.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:32.6 | Today, we're again handing the mic to our partners at Vital Strategies and featuring one of their |
| 0:37.6 | Vital Talks podcast episodes. |
| 0:40.2 | The topic, what if public health fueled social reform movements? |
| 0:45.3 | Let's listen. |
| 0:47.1 | Well, good day, everyone. |
| 0:48.6 | My name is Dan Cass, and I'm the senior vice president for environmental health at vital strategies. |
| 0:55.0 | At vital strategies, we're working to reimagine public health, |
| 0:58.7 | and that means everything that surrounds us, |
| 1:00.8 | that built-in-natural environment, policies and culture, |
| 1:04.5 | all of which make good health possible or conspire to deprive us of it. |
| 1:09.7 | In the wake of millions of deaths from COVID-19, with economy |
| 1:13.3 | shattered and too many lives impacted, we now have so much more to do to protect people's health. |
| 1:18.8 | In today's discussion, we'll be looking into the history and evolution of public health |
| 1:22.9 | and asking, what if public health fueled social movements? A recent article in the Atlantic by |
| 1:29.3 | Ed Young entitled, How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall, took a thoughtful look at this topic |
| 1:35.5 | and partly inspired this discussion. This article has a U.S.-based perspective on public health |
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