In this episode I talk to Dr. Teresa Montoya and Dr. Marc Emerson about their recent article, "Confronting Legacies of Structural Racism and Settler-colonialism to understand covid 19 impacts on the Navajo Nation". We discuss public health and critical expansion of the concept. Both articulate the limits of western epistemologies and the potential of including Navajo epistemologies. 

(6:20) - What is Public Health?

(19:45) - Lessons from the 1918 Flu

(30:14) - Optimistic Stories and Conclusion

Thank you to Teresa and Marc.

Thumbnail photo of Mural by Ivan Lee