793 - What It's Like To Be America's Chief Health Diplomat
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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About this episode:
Health diplomacy is how countries work together to advance global health. What does health diplomacy look like in 2024—a post-pandemic time marked by multiple violent crises and zoonotic disease outbreaks? Loyce Pace is America's top health diplomat within the Department of Health and Human Services. In today's episode: a conversation about the agenda for US and global health.
Guest:
Loyce Pace is the Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Pace is an alum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
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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. |
| 0:32.3 | This is Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. |
| 0:36.0 | Today, what it's like to be America's chief health diplomat? |
| 0:39.3 | Lois Pace is Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |
| 0:45.3 | She's also a graduate of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:49.3 | Today, she speaks to Dr. Josh Jarfstein about what she does every day, |
| 0:53.3 | how countries hash out differences |
| 0:54.9 | on global health issues, and why she has hope for the future. Let's listen. Assistant Secretary |
| 1:01.9 | Pace, it is great to see you. Thanks for joining me on Public Health on call. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:07.3 | So I want to start with a pretty basic question. You are the Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. What is that job description? |
| 1:19.5 | Well, it encompasses quite a bit. A lot of people don't realize we have a diplomatic arm of HHS, but essentially any other work that you think of when it comes to diplomacy, |
| 1:32.6 | me and my office are responsible for carrying out. HHS gets a lot of requests, inquiries, |
| 1:39.7 | et cetera, from governments and other stakeholders from all over the world, and that comes into the secretary, |
| 1:45.7 | and he passes it off to me and my team. So could you give me some examples of what a, you know, |
| 1:51.0 | a day in the life would be like? Sure. For example, we know that there are countries still |
| 1:58.3 | dealing with impacts and wondering how to address that issue on the ground. |
| 2:04.1 | They know that we have vaccine, that we might be able to donate alongside other countries. |
| 2:10.2 | And so they reached out to help understand how they could go about actually working with us on their response and perhaps even receive |
| 2:19.1 | additional support, whether that be in the form of medical products, technical assistance, |
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