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Evidence and experts to help you understand today’s public health news—and what it means for tomorrow.

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Evidence and experts to help you understand today’s public health news—and what it means for tomorrow.

    734 - How Hospital Infection Control Has Changed Since COVID

    734 - How Hospital Infection Control Has Changed Since COVID

    Four years after the early days of the pandemic, how are hospitals thinking about infection control, how much has changed, and to what degree have things returned to “normal”? Dr. Lisa Maragakis, the head of infection control at Johns Hopkins Hospital, returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about this “post-pandemic phase” and why health care has not fully recovered from pandemic disruptions.

    • 16 min
    733 - Projections of Excess Deaths in Gaza Over the Next Six Months

    733 - Projections of Excess Deaths in Gaza Over the Next Six Months

    A new report models projections of the human costs of conflict in Gaza over the next six months across several scenarios. Paul Spiegel, director of the Center for Humanitarian Health, and Tak Igusa, professor of Civil and Systems Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the project they developed with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. See the full report here: https://gaza-projections.org/

    • 13 min
    BONUS - How "Illiberal" Is Public Health?

    BONUS - How "Illiberal" Is Public Health?

    In his new book Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time, Dean Sandro Galea of the Boston University School of Public Health challenges closed-mindedness and invective in public health.  In this special, extended bonus episode, Dr. Galea and his friend and colleague Dr. Josh Sharfstein discuss—and debate—the fairness of his critique.

    • 31 min
    732 - Bringing Back Condoms to Prevent HIV

    732 - Bringing Back Condoms to Prevent HIV

    Condoms were once an essential part of the public health toolkit to fight HIV and STIs. But over the last decade, and coinciding with the rise of medication that prevents HIV infection, condom use among men who have sex with men has declined. Steve Goodreau, an expert in mathematical modeling and HIV and STIs at the University of Washington, talks with Stephanie Desmon about his research on declining condom use and why public health should be doing more to tout the advantages of what was once one of the most ubiquitous tools in safer sex. Read his op-ed here: https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/citation/9900/bringing_back_condoms.458.aspx

    • 13 min
    731 - A Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation

    731 - A Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation

    Health misinformation is rampant—online and through rumors—but there are steps people can take to help stamp them out. Aishwarya Nagar and Tara Kirk Sell from the Center for Health Security are co-authors of a new playbook aimed at helping public health practitioners, medical professionals, and health communicators recognize and respond to health-related rumors and misinformation. They talk through some specific tactics with Lindsay Smith Rogers and also discuss how we can all help improve our own health information literacy. Learn more: https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/2024/center-launches-new-practice-oriented-playbook-for-addressing-health-misinformation

    • 15 min
    730 - Women’s History Month: A Conversation With Sue Baker, the “Mother of Injury Prevention”

    730 - Women’s History Month: A Conversation With Sue Baker, the “Mother of Injury Prevention”

    When Sue Baker started her research career in the 1960s, there was no field devoted to injury prevention despite accidents being a leading cause of death in the US. In honor of Women’s History Month, Stephanie Desmon talks with injury prevention pioneer Baker about her half century of research looking at everything from aviation safety to hot dog choking deaths, and her hands-on approach to research which included getting her pilot’s license, working in a medical examiner’s office, and driving a commercial truck.

    • 17 min

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