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BONUS - The American Health Podcast: Nearly Expired Meat and Understocked Produce—Differences in Food Retail Quality Between High- and Low-Income Communities in the South

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Medicine, News, Health & Fitness

4.6644 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The Bloomberg American Health Initiative offers full scholarships for MPH and DrPH degrees to people working on the front lines of key challenges to health in the United States. This special episode of the Initiative's American Health Podcast features an interview with host Shane Bryan and "Bloomberg fellow" Ashley Hickson, a senior policy associate at the Center for Science in Public Interest, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that advocates for safer and healthier foods. They discuss Hickson's work examining the difference in food retail quality between high and low-income communities in the South. To learn more about the Bloomberg American Health Initiative and the Bloomberg Fellows Program, visit https://americanhealth.jhu.edu/. 

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0:00.0

Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

0:13.0

I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City.

0:20.0

Our goal is to bring

0:21.7

scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews

0:27.1

with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more.

0:32.8

If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jh.edu.

0:39.9

That's public health question at jh.h.edu for future podcast episodes.

0:45.8

At Johns Hopkins, I am also the director of a project called the Bloomberg American

0:51.7

Health Initiative, which tackles some of the most pressing challenges

0:55.6

to health in the United States.

0:57.9

This week, Public Health on Call

0:59.6

is sharing a series of three bonus episodes drawn

1:02.9

from the American Health podcast, which

1:05.2

is the podcast of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative.

1:09.2

Each episode features an interview with a Bloomberg Fellow. Now,

1:13.3

what's a Bloomberg Fellow? Someone studying on a full scholarship for a part-time or full-time

1:19.7

MPH or a part-time DRPH degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Each selected Bloomberg Fellow works in an

1:30.1

organization on the front lines of one of the five focus areas of the initiative, addiction

1:35.7

and overdose, adolescent health, obesity in the food system, the environment, and violence. If you

1:43.0

might be interested in becoming a Bloomberg fellow yourself,

1:46.1

check out all the details at Americanhealth.j.j.u.edu.

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That's Americanhealth.j.u.org.j.u.

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