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It's Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, the health and well-being of Ukrainian children.

Dr. Irwin Redliner is a pediatrician and co-founder

of the Ukraine Children's Action Project, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that all children in

Ukraine have access to the vital resources they need to stay safe and secure in the face of war

and devastation. He talks with me about how to assess and respond to needs for this population

and why it's so critical to think about the well-being of youth in any difficult or dangerous circumstances, particularly when there may be competing priorities.

Let's listen.

Dr. Irwin Redliner, thanks so much for joining us on Public Health On Call.

Would you tell us a bit about you and your work?

Yeah, sure.

I'm a pediatrician by training, but I've been doing public health for essentially my entire career. And initially it was setting up programs and practicing pediatrics in some

very challenging environments. My first real job was running a clinic in the Sixth,

County in the U.S. in East Arkansas, where there was just

rampant racism and extreme poverty and so on. And then I set up a program in New York with my

wife and the Saker Falls Simon called Children's Health Fund, and we developed a very large

network of mobile pediatric clinics for homeless and medically underserved children.

And my side gig has been, I set up and ran the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia

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