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Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith Rogers. Today, a deeper look at what it means for the U.S. to cut back on global health investments.

Professor Joe Eamon is the director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

He speaks to Dr. Josh Sarsstein about why helping other countries fight disease is good for health and security in the United States.

Let's listen.

Professor Joe Aman, thank you so much for joining me today.

I'm Public Health on Call to talk about foreign aid for health and what it means for national

security.

How are you doing today?

Good.

I'm delighted to be here.

Before we jump into this topic, I just wanted you to introduce your experience in this area to our viewers. Tell us about how you got started in Global Health.

Sure. So I've been engaged in Global Health for quite a while now. I went to public health school and then joined the Peace Corps and spent two years in West Africa

working on Guinea warm eradication. After that, I worked on a number of HIV programs and

sub-Saharan Africa, but also in Asia and Latin America, and worked also on a broader range of

parasitic diseases that are grouped together as neglected tropical diseases

and worked really on a wide range of other issues too at times on environmental health issues in

Africa, on nutrition issues. And it's been, it's been quite an experience because I've really

had fantastic partners in ministries of health and non-governmental organizations and community groups

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