EP 626 - Katelyn Jetelina, "Your Local Epidemiologist," on The Benefits and Harms of Active Assailant Drills and the Widespread Impacts of Mass Shootings
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Active shooter and lockdown drills are part of a broader spectrum of emergency preparedness but there are differing levels of effectiveness and risks. Katelyn Jetelina, aka "Your Local Epidemiologist," talks with Stephanie Desmon about the benefits and real harms of these activities and why she does have hope that we will make progress with gun violence solutions, though at a "snail's pace." They also discuss the wide-ranging ripple effects of violence beyond the victims such as community-level mental health impacts.
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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 jh.g.u. |
| 0:22.6 | That's public health question at jh.g.u.org for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.6 | It's Lindsay Smith Rogers. |
| 0:34.6 | Today, Stephanie Desmond talks to Dr. Caitlin Jedalina, who became known during the pandemic as your local epidemiologist on social media. |
| 0:42.7 | They talk about the impacts of mass shootings far beyond those directly affected and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of active shooter drills in schools. |
| 0:53.1 | Dr. Jettelina also talks about why she's confident that we will one day solve the problem |
| 0:57.8 | of gun violence. |
| 0:59.4 | Let's listen. |
| 1:00.9 | Caitlin Jettelina, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:03.5 | Yeah, thank you for having me. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:06.2 | So you are known on the internet as your local epidemiologist. |
| 1:16.1 | Tell us what that means. Yeah, I am. I kind of stumbled into this role. Before the pandemic, I was just an epidemiologist. I was an academic. I had a |
| 1:24.2 | research lab, and I think we'll get into that research context later, but the pandemic started hitting the United States heart in the early March of 2020, and a lot of faculty, staff, and students had a ton of really good questions. |
| 1:39.3 | And so I just started an email that then morphed into a social media page that has now morphed into a |
| 1:47.5 | newsletter. And so, yeah, I'm your local epidemiologist. My newsletter has touched about 330 million |
| 1:55.7 | people in 166 countries. And so to me, that was one sign that this is greatly needed and continues to be |
| 2:04.0 | greatly needed for other public health topics as well. We actually started the podcast here at the same |
| 2:09.8 | time, and we have morphed from all COVID all the time to a variety of topics. I think the most |
| 2:15.4 | interesting thing for me in 2023 is if us public health professionals |
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