885 - World Malaria Day: Advocacy on Capitol Hill—Funding, Research, and Global Impact
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.8 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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World Malaria Day is April 25. In this episode: guest host Thomas Locke takes us to Capitol Hill where we meet malaria champions, scientists, and leaders who gather in Washington, DC, as part of the ‘United to Beat Malaria’ campaign urging Congress to continue supporting global malaria efforts.
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The Malaria Minute Podcast—The Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute
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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 jhh.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.2 | Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.1 | Ahead of World Malaria Day, we bring you an extended episode of Malaria Minute, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. |
| 0:41.3 | In this episode, guest host Thomas Locke takes us to Capitol Hill, where we meet Malaria champions, scientists and leaders who are lobbying members of Congress to fund their interventions against malaria at a truly critical time. |
| 0:56.2 | We hear from them about their work and what scientific messages they bring to D.C. to impart on |
| 1:01.7 | policymakers in an effort to, quote, keep our foot on the gas pedal of malaria prevention and control. |
| 1:09.2 | You can learn more about the Malaria Institute's work at the |
| 1:12.4 | links in the show notes. Let's listen. Hello and welcome to a special edition of the Johns Hopkins |
| 1:18.2 | Malaria Minute, a podcast sharing impactful malaria science and the trailblazers leading the fight. |
| 1:24.8 | Today we're casting our net beyond scientific research to focus on the |
| 1:28.9 | importance of malaria advocacy. That is engaging members of Congress to encourage them to support |
| 1:35.3 | global health efforts, including malaria. And so today, we're on the ground in Washington, D.C., |
| 1:41.2 | joining over 120 champions from 45 states who have come together to share |
| 1:46.5 | with their members of Congress why they care about malaria. |
| 1:50.1 | We want to dig a little deeper into the mechanics of malaria funding to understand which |
| 1:55.1 | programs the U.S. supports and how they work to reduce cases and deaths. |
| 2:00.3 | To do that, we'll speak to a former lead |
| 2:02.2 | at PMI, the President's Malaria Initiative, and a representative from the Ugandan government. |
| 2:08.3 | But back to Capitol Hill, these advocates, champions as then known, have been brought together |
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