860 - Why Gender and Gender Identity Matter for Health
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.8 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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About this episode:
In today’s episode: defining sex, gender, and gender identity, and why the concepts of gender and gender identity help with the understanding of and response to health challenges.
Guests:
Sari Reisner is an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan.
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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Trump says there are ‘two sexes.’ Experts and science say it’s not binary.—The Washington Post
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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. |
| 0:31.1 | Hi listeners, it's Lindsay Smith-Rogers, the producer of Public Health on Call. |
| 0:35.3 | Today, gender and gender identity. Dr. Sari Reisner is an epidemiologist at the producer of Public Health On Call. Today, gender and gender identity. |
| 0:38.7 | Dr. Sarri Reisner is an epidemiologist |
| 0:41.0 | at the University of Michigan. |
| 0:42.7 | He joins Dr. Josh Starstein to talk about the differences |
| 0:45.4 | between the concepts of sex, gender, and gender identity, |
| 0:50.0 | and why these differences matter for health. |
| 0:53.1 | Let's listen. Professor Sari Reisner, and thank you so much for health. Let's listen. |
| 0:58.0 | Professor Sari Reisner, thank you so much for joining me today. I'm Public Health on Call. How are you? I'm doing great. Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:01.2 | We're going to talk about some words that have fallen into disfavor right now in the current |
| 1:07.1 | administration, gender and gender identity. Could you maybe introduce yourself to our |
| 1:12.6 | audience as to why I called you about these words? Sure. So yeah, my name is Sarah Reisner. My pronouns |
| 1:18.4 | are he and him. I'm an epidemiologist by training. My research focuses on transgender population |
| 1:24.3 | health as well as sex and gender-based research methods for epidemiology in the study of health disparities. |
| 1:31.3 | Great. Well, let's start with the word gender. You read various news stories or now website posts and you see the claim that we should be talking about sex only and not gender. |
| 1:45.1 | Can you unpack that a little bit? |
| 1:47.2 | Absolutely. |
| 1:48.2 | You know, so when we're talking about sex, kind of basic definition-wise, we're often talking |
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