Today’s episode is the third and final part of our series on community-based preparedness for biological incidents. Guests include subject matter experts Stacy Hall and Dr. JD Hoyle. Stacy Hall is a registered nurse and recently retired from the Louisiana Department of Health after 27 years of public service. She currently volunteers with a Luke’s House Clinic in New Orleans and with a public health collaborative to increase childhood immunization rates. JD Hoyle is a 2022 Atlantic Council Millennium Leadership Fellow and a senior consultant in infectious disease epidemiology. She also serves as an advisor to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Health Security.

In this episode, JD and Stacy discuss where public health is going in the future, including what public health agencies are planning for now, ways to engage and build trust with communities, how to include emerging technologies into public health work, their hopes for the future of public health, tangible things that individuals can do to connect public health with daily life, and more. They encourage you to get outside and moving while listening to this podcast and use the hashtag #NCBRTWalkAndTalk to showcase how you incorporate healthy habits into your everyday life!