How Does Global Health Affect Everything? with Dr. Laura Ferguson

Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Laura Ferguson is an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California and the associate director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights at the USC Institute for Global Health. She joins Jonathan to discuss the importance of global health and its impact on day-to-day life. Dr. Ferguson is on Twitter @lauraf_la. The USC Institute for Global Health is on Instagram @uscglobalhealth and online at www.globalhealth.usc.edu. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:03.2	I'm Jonathan Vennes and every week I sit down for a glorious 30 minute conversation
0:07.2	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.7	This week I'm curious about how paying attention to human rights can improve global health
0:14.1	with Dr. Laura Ferguson.
0:16.1	Welcome to Getting Curious.
0:19.9	This is Jonathan Vennes.
0:21.3	This week I'm very excited to talk about how paying attention to global health is really
0:25.2	important because it affects everything.
0:27.0	So that's kind of a random question but it's actually not random because I feel like
0:30.8	we're not paying attention and then I was like, whoever are we going to get in here to
0:33.7	explain this to me and then Income's Laura Ferguson who is an assistant professor at
0:38.2	UCLA and tell the children about what you do.
0:41.6	I am an assistant professor at USC.
0:43.4	You know what?
0:44.4	College is in California really similar with those acronyms and I struggle.
0:48.0	Absolutely and you know what we love, we love each other so it's all the same.
0:50.4	We love each other but USC is a gorgeous place which is where you are and your assistant
0:54.7	professor there and tell the children about what you do.
0:57.6	So I am the associate director of the program on global health and human rights and the
1:02.6	director of research at the Institute for Global Health at USC and we really care about
1:07.6	global health and we care about that intersection with human rights and how we can use that
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