892 - Health Policy in Trump’s First 100 Days

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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4.8 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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About this episode:

A look back at health policy in the first 100 days of Trump’s second presidential administration including global health, vaccines, and the Department of Health and Human Services restructuring—plus a few things to keep an eye on for the future. Note: These podcasts are a conversation between the participants and do not represent the position of Johns Hopkins University.

Guest:

Dr. Josh Sharfstein served in a number of political roles in his career including as the Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health, the Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as Commissioner of Health for Baltimore City, and as a Congressional health policy advisor. He is currently a health policy distinguished professor of the practice in Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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 jhhhu.edu.
0:23.8	That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:31.1	It's Lindsay Smith Rogers. Today, a look back at health policy in the first 100 days of Trump's second presidential term.
0:39.4	I speak with Dr. Josh Sharfstein, a former federal health official and current health policy
0:44.3	distinguished professor of the practice in health policy and management.
0:48.7	Just a reminder, as always, these podcasts are a conversation between the participants
0:53.2	and do not represent the position of Johns Hopkins University. Let's listen. Dr. Josh Sharstein, it's a pleasure to have you back on the podcast. We've been covering some of the health policy developments with the new administration, and we keep saying we're going to circle back. And here we are at the end of 100 days.
1:12.4	How are you?
1:13.5	I would say I'm doing okay.
1:15.0	It's been quite 100 days.
1:17.0	Well, we could start with some changes for global health.
1:20.5	Changes for global health were profound.
1:23.5	The U.S. Agency for International Development has, in the past, supported critical health work all around the globe, and the agency pretty much got wiped out.
1:33.3	I think an agency of thousands of employees was taken down to something like 15, and hundreds of millions of dollars in grants were canceled.
1:42.3	And that's had an impact in nutrition programs,
1:46.5	in HIV programs, in environmental programs, and pandemic preparedness programs. And the field of
1:53.8	global health is really reeling at this point, and that happened very quickly.
1:58.7	It seems like, of all the things that we're going to talk about today, this is the one that
2:02.1	happened so quickly and at such a large scale, we are already seeing some of the ramifications.
2:07.6	The stories that are coming out are really gut-wrenching, babies that are dying because they are
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