770 - Juneteenth in 2024
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Overview:
Juneteenth was declared a federal holiday in 2021 amidst a national reckoning with race. Four years later, the observation finds us at a time of continued polarization and attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Reflecting on the historical significance of Juneteenth can help us think about how to celebrate and observe the day, and how to recommit to healing and social justice work as individuals, communities, and society.
Guest:
Joel Bolling is the assistant dean for Inclusion, Diversity, Anti-racism, and Equity at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Host:
Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Show links and related content:
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Systemic Equity—Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine
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Health History: Health and Longevity Since the Mid-19th Century—Stanford
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Slavery & the Making of the Atlantic World—Able Museum
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Structural Racism Explained—Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley
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Historical Context: Facts about the Slace Trade and Slavery—The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
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Center Report Uses Research to Fight Attacks on DEI—USC Race and Equity Center
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The Assault on DEI—The Chronicle of Higher Education
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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.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.9 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.0 | Today, Joel Bowling, the assistant dean for inclusion, diversity, antiRacism, and Equity at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health joins the podcast to talk about Juneteenth. Let's listen. |
| 0:47.3 | Joel Bowling, thanks so much for joining us on Public Health on call. Let's start off by talking a little bit about your work here at the School of Public Health. Great. Thanks for having me. So the School of Public Health back in 2020 started this |
| 1:00.5 | inaugural role that is the role that I'm in as Assistant Dean for Inclusion, Diversity, |
| 1:05.7 | Anti-Racism, and Equity. I started back in January 2020. And if you recall this little thing that happened coming |
| 1:12.8 | out of January 2020 in early parts, really starting in March, this little thing called COVID |
| 1:17.9 | happened. And then as we were grappling with the pandemic that is COVID, we were faced yet |
| 1:25.5 | again with the deaths of, in this case, George Floyd, |
| 1:29.5 | Breonna Taylor, and so many others, and reminding our community that the ongoing pandemic |
| 1:34.7 | and endemic, really, of racism still exists and still impacts our community. |
| 1:40.8 | And so the work that wasn't part of an inaugural role really expanded very quickly |
| 1:46.5 | to help our school further address some of the challenges that we were facing around, again, |
| 1:53.1 | inclusion diversity, what we talked about in terms of racism and equity. So our office was formed |
| 2:00.2 | back in 2021, really with a focus on advocacy, |
| 2:04.7 | being an internal consultants to help us strategize and partner do trainings, workshops, |
| 2:10.5 | offer educational materials, support student accommodations, retain, recruit, support faculty, staff, and students, really with a lens |
| 2:20.3 | on building a community that fosters a sense of belonging. And of course, as part of that, |
| 2:25.6 | we help steward our idea or action plan that is part of how we guide our work throughout |
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