828 - Public Health is a Human Right

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

News, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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About this episode:

The day after the 2024 presidential election, Joe Amon—the brand new director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights—was set to give a speech for a panel about health discrimination. But the one he'd prepared wasn't going to cut it for a moment suddenly marked by uncertainty and change. He pivoted to a different message: one that acknowledges that public health doesn't have everything figured out, and that it works best when it's viewed as a social movement. In this episode: a moment of reflection for the field, considerations of some of the challenges that lay ahead, and the critical importance of thinking about public health as a human right. Note: You can read an adaptation of the speech in the link below.

Guest:

Joe Amon is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights.

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:

Post-Election Public Health Needs to Keep On Keeping On—Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine

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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.
0:32.1	This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.
0:34.4	Today, how in this moment public health can reflect on its successes and face new challenges.
0:41.2	I speak with Joe Amon, the new director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human
0:46.2	Rights, who has worked on some of the world's most complicated health and human rights problems.
0:52.2	Let's listen. Joe Amon, thank you so much for joining us today.
0:57.7	You're the new director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights here at the Bloomberg
1:01.6	School. Tell us a little bit about your background and what brought you here.
1:06.1	Well, let me first say, I'm just delighted to be here. It's really been, it's been a month now, and I've been really warmly welcomed by the school,
1:14.4	and I'm excited to just jump in and get started.
1:17.9	I've worked in public health for a long time now, and I think one of the interesting things about my career is that
1:23.9	I've been in a lot of kind of different places.
1:26.3	I did my master's degree in parasitology.
1:29.7	I did a PhD in molecular parasitology and worked a little bit on malaria.
1:34.2	But I also worked with community organizations on HIV.
1:37.6	When I worked at Family Health International or FHI-360,
1:40.9	I worked with Human Rights Watch for 10 years,
1:43.9	leading their HIV programs, health
1:45.8	programs, starting programs on environmental health and on disability rights. I worked at Helen
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