883 - How An Advocate is Thinking About Family Planning

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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About this episode:

Innocent Grant is a family planning advocate from Tanzania. In this episode: How Grant’s experiences approaching mis- and disinformation about sexual and reproductive health at home are now helping him to frame this work as the U.S. threatens to cut a portion of its global funding of family planning. He also discusses the threats to major progress in outcomes like maternal mortality and the economic empowerment of young families—and how advocates can find common ground rooted in evidence.

Guest:

Innocent Grant is a family planning advocate and an MSPH student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Host:

Stephanie Desmon, MA, is a former journalist, author, and the director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the largest center at 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,
0:05.5	where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges.
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0:23.6	That's public health question at jh.u.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:29.6	Hi listeners, it's Lindsay Smith Rogers.
0:33.6	Innocent Grant is a family planning advocate from Tanzania who's made it his life's mission
0:39.5	to protect women and girls and to ensure they have the tools to make informed decisions about
0:45.0	family planning. He's currently an MSPH student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
0:51.0	and today he talks to Stephanie Desmond about what proposed family planning
0:55.1	funding cuts could mean to the health and well-being of people in his country and around the world.
1:01.3	Let's listen.
1:02.5	Innocent Grant, thanks so much for joining me.
1:04.8	Thank you.
1:06.0	So today I want to talk at your perspective on the state of family planning, given the threatened
1:12.3	cuts from the new administration.
1:14.8	And I guess I want to start by telling a little bit about your story.
1:18.5	You have done a lot of work in family planning with young people in Tanzania, your home
1:23.8	country.
1:24.8	And I'm wondering how you got involved in this.
1:27.1	And what is the situation going on?
1:29.2	Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much, Stephanie, for that question. And as you mentioned, I think what is
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