831 - Public Health Science Communication With Your Local Epidemiologist
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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About this episode:
Science communication is a vital skillset for public health practitioners. But what does it really take to cut through the noise? In today's episode, Katelyn Jetelina, the publisher of Your Local Epidemiologist, talks about the art and science of science communication, and why it's less about being right and more about a commitment to changing the way people think.
Guest:
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and scientific communicator. She is the co-founder of Health Trust Initiative, an adjunct professor at Yale School of Public Health, and a Senior Scientific Advisor to several government and non-profit agencies, including the CDC. In addition, Dr. Jetelina is the publisher of Your Local Epidemiologist.
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.
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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.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's Public Health Question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.2 | This is Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:33.4 | Today we're talking about public health science communications with one of the best, |
| 0:37.7 | Caitlin Gendelina, with your local epidemiologist. We cover what is really needed from public health |
| 0:42.7 | communicators, especially now amidst a deluge of mis and disinformation and some specific skills |
| 0:48.9 | and tactics to meet the moment. We also talk about why public health needs a bit of a rebrand |
| 0:53.8 | and how we can think about |
| 0:55.1 | transparency. Let's listen. Caitlin Jettelina, welcome back to public health on call. It's good to see you. |
| 1:02.1 | Thank you for having me. Excited to be here. So today we're going to talk about public health |
| 1:07.2 | science communication. It's a big conversation. You know, we're going to get into some of the challenges and maybe some opportunities, |
| 1:12.9 | but to start us off, can you kind of give us a short definition of public health science communications? |
| 1:20.4 | Yeah, I mean, it depends who you ask, but you're asking me. |
| 1:23.3 | And so I think the definition is really the ability to share or translate scientific knowledge in a way that is accessible as well as engaging, timely and understandable. |
| 1:36.6 | And it's a big thing. I mean, it's a lot of work. So, and it's hard to do that. But more and more we're seeing the importance and that it's needed. |
| 1:45.5 | I want to break that down just a little bit to pick on, to pick up on some words that you used, |
| 1:49.9 | accessible is a big one. What do you mean by that? |
| 1:53.7 | I mean that the ability to access this information, right? When we publish a scientific article, it's usually behind a |
| 2:03.0 | paywall. I even have hard time finding papers and being able to read them. And so I think a lot of |
| 2:09.9 | it is just like physically able to access this information. Another part of accessible, and I guess |
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