702 - Backstage at Public Health On Call: 2023 Year in Review with Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Stephanie Desmon, and Lindsay Smith Rogers
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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In the last episode of 2023, Lindsay Smith Rogers talks with co-hosts Dr. Josh Sharfstein and Stephanie Desmon about 2023. This year saw a rise in non-COVID topics, including Supreme Court cases, malaria, RSV, antitrans health legislation, climate emergencies, artificial intelligence, and more. They also talk about what topics they're thinking about for 2024. Learn more about another one of our projects, the 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. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:32.2 | Today, co-host Stephanie Desmond and Josh Sharfstein join me for a recap of public health on call in |
| 0:38.3 | 23 and what we're thinking about for 2024. Let's listen. Stephanie Desmond and Josh Sharfstein, |
| 0:45.8 | thank you so much for joining me and everyone else on public health on call. Welcome to the end of |
| 0:52.0 | 2023. We made it. And so we're back for another one of our sort of recap |
| 0:57.3 | conversations that we've done every year. This was an action-packed year. And I think I'd like to |
| 1:04.0 | start off by asking, what are some things that we learned? What was new and different this year? |
| 1:09.5 | So, Josh, let's start with you well I think this |
| 1:12.3 | year for the podcast really illustrated how many topics are public health topics because just |
| 1:20.6 | scanning through the list we hit everything from cosmetics to silasiban to chat GPT to zombies. |
| 1:30.6 | You know, there were many different topics. |
| 1:33.1 | And I'm sure, although we haven't calculated the statistics, I'm sure that we had the |
| 1:37.9 | fewest number of COVID episodes in 2023, although there were some good ones. |
| 1:42.0 | We really have seen the podcast expand its horizons |
| 1:46.7 | and really go to a lot of topics that are really important in different ways. |
| 1:52.7 | I can confirm, actually, that this was the lowest number of COVID-related episodes that we've |
| 1:57.9 | had since the start of this podcast. And for a podcast that started |
| 2:02.1 | out as pretty much a COVID podcast, I would say that's an interesting evolution. Stephanie, |
| 2:06.7 | what did you learn this year? Well, I learned, Lindsay and I were actually together when we learned |
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