EP 471 - A Talk With a Public Health Graduate: Caitlin Ceryes, Class of 2022
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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This week, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is holding its spring graduation ceremonies. Today, Caitlin Ceryes, a soon-to-be PhD in Environmental Health and Engineering, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what led her to a career in public health, her diverse research ranging from soda taxes to sustainable aquaculture, and how the pandemic caused her to pivot her dissertation work to focus on COVID-19 occupational hazards for essential food workers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
| 0:33.0 | question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhut.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:42.3 | Hi, I'm Lindsay Smith-Rogers, producer of public health on call. On Saturday, May 21st, |
| 0:47.6 | the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is holding its spring graduation ceremonies. |
| 0:53.7 | Today, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks to one of the school's hundreds of proud graduates, |
| 0:58.9 | a soon-to-be PhD in Environmental Health and Engineering named Caitlin's series. |
| 1:04.1 | They discussed her career prior to public health school, the diverse experiences she's had as a student, |
| 1:09.7 | and her PhD dissertation. |
| 1:11.9 | This major research project supervised by Hopkins Professor Ronnie Neff |
| 1:16.3 | focused on the challenges facing food workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 1:21.6 | Let's listen. |
| 1:23.0 | Caitlin series, or I should say the soon-to-be doctor series, |
| 1:26.3 | thank you so much for joining me to |
| 1:28.6 | tell me a little bit about your career at the Johns Hopkins-Winberg School of Public Health. |
| 1:34.5 | Thank you for having me. So let's start in the before times, not just before COVID, |
| 1:41.0 | but before you pursued public health training. What were you up to? |
| 1:45.8 | So my original professional background is in nursing, and I worked as a critical care nurse |
| 1:51.9 | in surgical intensive care. Actually, in Baltimore City, I worked at Johns Hopkins Bayview. |
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