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Public Health On Call

820 - The Anti-Vaccine Movement Gets Its Close-Up

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

About this episode:

A new documentary, "Shot in the Arm," looks at the modern anti-vaccine movement from its opposition to the measles vaccine in 2019 through the pandemic and its opposition to COVID vaccination. Filmmaker Scott Kennedy joins the podcast to talk about about the five-year project of creating the film, including details from his hour-long interview with a leading voice in the movement, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Guest:

Scott Kennedy is an Academy Award nominated writer, director, producer, and documentarian. He is known for films such as The Garden and Our Town. Shot in the Arm is his most recent film.

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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1:14.4

This is Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of public health on call. Today, a new documentary about

1:19.5

vaccines and the anti-vaccine movement called Shot in the Arm. The filmmaker Scott Kennedy

1:25.2

talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about his five-year project to understand

1:29.9

the rise of opposition to vaccines, starting with measles and ending with COVID.

1:35.1

Featured in the film as an interview with a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement, Robert F. Kennedy,

1:40.9

Jr. Let's listen.

1:43.3

Scott Kennedy, it is great to see you here on public health on call.

1:48.1

How are you doing today? I'm a little tight, but nice to be with you.

1:52.9

Well, we're going to get into that. But let me start by asking you to introduce yourself to our audience.

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