703 - Living Healthier and Longer in New York City
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Since 2020, New Yorkers have lost around 4.6 years of overall life expectancy—and up to 5.5 years for Black and 6 for Latino residents. NYC's Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about Healthy NYC, an initiative building on the momentum of the pandemic to claw back these losses and improve the overall health of the population. They discuss the goals of the initiative, how success is measured, and specific tactics to address some of the greatest threats to health and life in the metropolis. Learn more: https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/about-doh/healthynyc.page
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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 jh.g.u.org for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.6 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. Today, a close look at Healthy NYC. |
| 0:41.3 | Dr. Ashwin Fassan, the health Commissioner of New York City, talks to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about a new effort to extend life expectancy that brings together efforts |
| 0:46.7 | to help the whole population with initiatives focused on those most at risk. Let's listen. |
| 0:53.3 | Commissioner Ashwin Vassin, thank you so much for joining those most at risk. Let's listen. |
| 0:59.7 | Commissioner Ashwin-Basen, thank you so much for joining me in public health on call to talk about New York City's campaign for healthier, longer lives. |
| 1:06.1 | Now, why is the Health Commissioner in New York, are you focused now on life expectancy? |
| 1:11.4 | Thanks, Josh, for having me. It's great to be here with you and your audience. You're talking |
| 1:16.4 | about Healthy NYC, which is our campaign for healthier, longer lives that we launched in early |
| 1:22.5 | November. And it's a response to a couple of things. Number one, as I came into this job around |
| 1:29.9 | Omicron and let's say we were through the worst of the pandemic, the one lesson of the pandemic |
| 1:35.9 | is that in a moment of crisis, we were able to focus and we were able to align our energies. |
| 1:43.3 | You can debate whether those were well aligned or not |
| 1:46.4 | well aligned, but at least we knew what we were fighting. And like you, for someone who spent |
| 1:52.1 | his entire career working in different aspects of public health, health can sometimes seem |
| 1:56.4 | extraordinarily broad and extraordinarily diffuse. But when we can marshal our energy towards |
| 2:03.7 | unifying goals, we can do great things. I came up through the world of HIV and HIV treatment, |
| 2:10.8 | and I saw us do great things at the turn of the century globally on expanding access to care. |
| 2:16.6 | So one, I was asking myself the question, |
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