Public Health On Call

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564 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Howard Frumkin on How Environmental Health = Our Health, and Why There's Empirical Evidence For Hope Jan 23, 2023

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Environmental health wasn't always part of the public health portfolio but in recent years "science caught up to the obvious." Dr. Howard Frumkin, former head of Environmental Health Operations at the CDC and currently senior vice president at Trust for Public Land, talks with Shelley Hearne about the evidence base behind environmental impacts on our health, the political and cultural changes required for the CDC to adopt programs around climate and environment, and why hope for tackling climate change is not only a worthy strategy, there's empirical evidence behind it.

563 - Controversy over Deaths in Custody Jan 20, 2023

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Dr. Roger Mitchell, the former chief medical examiner of the District of Columbia, and current chief of pathology at Howard University speaks with Dr. Sharfstein about how deaths in custody are classified. Dr. Mitchell has observed that when it comes to understanding the reasons for these deaths, the usual rules of autopsies and death investigations don't always seem to apply. He's leading the charge to understand more about what's happening.

562 - The Pandemic is Not Over Jan 18, 2023

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As we enter the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Mike Osterholm, a leading expert from the University of Minnesota, talks to Stephanie Desmon about why hundreds of people in the U.S. continue to die each day from COVID and tens of thousands are newly hospitalized. They discuss the question he gets asked most often, "Is this pandemic ever going to end?", as well as coming variants, the massive outbreaks in China, and the lack of demand for vaccines and treatments that are effective in preventing death and severe disease.

561 - A Supreme Court Case That's a "Big Deal" for Public Health Jan 13, 2023

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Our guest is Judge David Tatel, who recently took senior status on the U.S. court of appeals for the DC circuit after joining the court in 1994. He was appointed to fill the seat created by the appointment of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court. Judge Tatel speaks with Dr. Sharfstein about West Virginia v. EPA, in which the Supreme Court announced a major new doctrine for judging actions by health agencies to protect the public.

560 - Preventing Child Sexual Abuse Jan 11, 2023

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In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Letourneau, director of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, speaks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about sexual abuse prevention means for youth serving organizations, and for children themselves. More about the Moore Center is here.

559 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Gina McCarthy On Helping People Want Change Without Being Afraid of It Jan 09, 2023

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Today, guest host Shelley Hearne, director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Advocacy talks with former EPA leader and inaugural White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy about why climate change is a people and public health problem, not a planetary problem.

558 - "It Was Compromised": The Trump Administration and CDC, with Congressman Bill Foster Jan 06, 2023

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A report from the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis sheds light on disturbing instances of the Trump administration's politicization of science during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Subcommittee member Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about what's in the report, how to better protect agencies like the CDC from political interference, and lessons learned to prepare for the next pandemic.

557 - What's Happening With Abortion Access Six Months After the SCOTUS Decision Jan 04, 2023

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Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, there's been a flurry of activity at the state levels to protect, significantly restrict, or ban abortion. Legal and public health expert Joanne Rosen returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about how removing the "constitutional guardrails" is playing out in courtrooms across the country, the "chilling effect" much of this has on practitioners, and how the recently passed Respect for Marriage Act could have implications for protections at the federal level. Referenced in this episode: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2798214.

556 - Backstage at Public Health On Call: 2022 Year in Review with Dr. Josh Sharfstein and Stephanie Desmon Dec 16, 2022

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In the last episode of Season 6, Lindsay Smith Rogers talks with co-hosts Dr. Josh Sharfstein and Stephanie Desmon about 2022: how it started, what happened, and how it's going now. They reflect on the changing COVID response, listener feedback, standout episodes, notable guests, looking ahead to topics for 2023 and more. This episode was recorded in person as a video and can be viewed on the @johnshopkinssph YouTube channel. Please vote for the podcast in the Signal Listener's Choice Awards! Info here: https://bit.ly/PHPodVoting

555 - Special Episode—Conversations on Critical Topics: The Bloomberg American Health Summit Dec 14, 2022

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Last week, hundreds of public health leaders and scholars gathered in Philadelphia for the annual Bloomberg American Health Summit and to discuss critical topics ranging from gun violence and environmental justice to food policy and preventing overdose. This special episode of Public Health On Call features three panels from the main plenary session: Extreme Risk Protection Orders, Innovations in Harm Reduction, and Youth Suicide Risk in Latinx Communities. You can watch the full sessions here. Please vote for the podcast in the Signal Listener's Choice Awards! Info here: https://bit.ly/PHPodVoting

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