Public Health On Call

By The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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

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March 27, 2025875 - Tradeoffs: Why Many Republicans Think Shrinking Medicaid Will Make It Better
About this episode:
As a follow up to our recent episode titled The Potential Impacts of Cuts To Medicaid, we’re partnering with our friends at the Tradeoffs podcast. Guest hosts Dan Gorenstein and Ryan Levi, longtime health reporters, take a deeper look at why many Republicans believe a smaller Medicaid program would be a better Medicaid, what proposed cuts might look like, and the challenges Republicans may face in trying to get cuts passed in Congress.
Guests:
Dan Gorenstein is the executive producer and host of the Tradeoffs Podcast and an adjunct senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ryan Levi is a reporter and producer for the Tradeoffs Podcast.
Show links and related content:

Why Many Republicans Think Shrinking Medicaid Will Make It Better—Tradeoffs

The Potential Impacts of Cuts To Medicaid—Public Health On Call (March 2025)

The Oregon Experiment—Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes—The New England Journal of Medicine (2013)

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March 26, 2025874 - The Potential Impacts of Cuts To Medicaid
About this episode:
Medicaid helps make health care accessible to millions of adults and children in the U.S. In this episode: a look at the potential impacts of federal budget cuts on states, hospitals, physicians, and the beneficiaries themselves.
Guests:
Dr. Gerard Anderson is an expert in health policy and a professor in Health Policy and Management and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Jennifer Wolff is an expert in policy relating to the care of persons with complex health needs and disabilities, the Eugene and Mildred Lipitz Professor in Health Policy and Management, and director of the Roger and Flo Lipitz Center to Advance Policy in Aging and Disability.
Host:
Stephanie Desmon, MA, is a former journalist, author, and the director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the largest center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Show links and related content:

2024 Election Series: What’s At Stake For Health Insurance, Medicare/Medicaid, and Drug Pricing—Public Health On Call (September 2024)

Ex-GOP lawmaker: Medicaid cuts politically risky—Politico

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20min
March 24, 2025873 - Drowning As A Public Health Issue
About this episode:
According to the WHO, there are an estimated 300,000 drowning deaths worldwide each year and a quarter of them are children under 5. But because the risk factors are so diverse—from backyard swimming pools to monsoons to the fishing industry—preventing drowning deaths requires viewing the problem through a public health lens and investing in a multitude of approaches, many of which turn out to be beneficial to communities beyond basic water safety.
Guest:
Caroline Lukaszyk is a technical officer for injury prevention at the World Health Organization.
Host:
Stephanie Desmon, MA, is a former journalist, author, and the director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the largest center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Show links and related content:

Troubled Waters: Are day care centers a solution to preventing child drowning deaths in Bangladesh?—Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health

Preventing Drowning In Bangladesh (video)—Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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16min
March 20, 2025872 - Ketamine and Esketamine
About this episode:
Ketamine is in the news again. In this episode: a conversation about the differences between ketamine and esketamine—an FDA-approved medicine for treatment-resistant depression—why we’re hearing so much about ketamine right now, and the importance of administering esketamine in a clinical setting as part of a broader comprehensive mental health strategy.
Guest:
Dr. Paul Kim is a psychiatrist and director of the Johns Hopkins Treatment Resistant Esketamine Antidepressant Targeted (TREAT) Depression Clinic.

Dr. Paul Nestadt is a psychiatrist and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Treatment Resistant Esketamine Antidepressant Targeted (TREAT) Depression Clinic.
Host:
Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Show links and related content:

What to Know About Ketamine—Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Esketamine for Treatment-Resistant Depression—Hopkins Medicine

What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain—The Atlantic

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18min
March 19, 2025871 - A Potentially “Game-Changing” Approach to Preventing Ovarian Cancer
About this episode:
For some people with a high risk of ovarian cancer, a standard approach has been full removal of the reproductive organs. But new research points to a far less invasive procedure called a salpingectomy, or removal of the fallopian tubes, as a potential “game changer” in ovarian cancer. In this episode: understanding high grade serous carcinoma—the most common type of ovarian cancer—the lack of screening tools, and why fallopian tube removal isn’t yet available to more people.
Guest:
Dr. Rebecca Stone is an OBGYN, a professor in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and the director of The Kelly Gynecologic Oncology Service.
Host:
Stephanie Desmon, MA, is a former journalist, author, and the director of public relations and communications for the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, the largest center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Show links and related content:

A Game-Changer for Ovarian Cancer—Johns Hopkins Medicine

Salpingectomy for ectopic pregnancy reduces ovarian cancer risk—JNCI Cancer Spectrum

Salpingectomy for the Primary Prevention of Ovarian Cancer: A Systematic Review—NIH

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20min
March 17, 2025870 - The Origins, Impacts, and Challenges of Misinformation
About this episode:
A new report on misinformation and disinformation from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine is helping to define what misinformation is and how it starts and how to combat it. In this episode: a conversation about the findings, and how to get away from misinformation as a name-calling contest.
Guest:
Vish Viswanath is the Lee Kum Kee Professor of Health Communication at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and chaired the blue ribbon panel examining misinformation about science.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland’s Health Department.
Show links and related content:

Science Misinformation, Its Origins and Impacts, and Mitigation Strategies Examined in New Report; Multisector Action Needed to Increase Visibility of, Access to High-Quality Science Information—National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine

The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health In America—Public Health On Call (October 2024)

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17min
March 14, 2025869 - The Evidence on Vaccines and Autism
About this episode:
Questions about vaccines and autism have been around for a while despite multiple scientific studies that do not show a connection. In this episode: where the concerns started, the science behind why experts have concluded there is no link, and why these questions still persist.
Guest:
Dan Salmon is the director of the Johns Hopkins Institute For Vaccine Safety.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland’s Health Department.
Show links and related content:

CDC Wants to Revisit Debunked Theories of Links Between Vaccines And Autism—Forbes

Vaccines 101: Vaccine Safety Science—Public Health On Call (February 2025)

Transcript information:
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21min
March 13, 2025868 - COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma: From Emergency to Everyday
About this episode:
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when there were no vaccines or treatments, convalescent plasma—antibody-containing blood from people who recovered from COVID—saved countless lives through Emergency Use Authorization. In this episode: special guest host Thomas Locke of MMI Monthly: From Bench To Breakthrough discusses the evolution of CCP therapy, from emergency use during the pandemic to now, nearly five years later, crossing the finish line with recent FDA approval as a potential treatment for immunocompromised patients.
Guest:
David Sullivan is a professor in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.
Host:
Thomas Locke is the host of MMI Monthly: From Bench to Breakthrough and Malaria Minute, podcasts from the department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Show links and related content:

Bloomberg School Researchers Support First Blood Center to Receive Full FDA Approval to Provide Convalescent Plasma for Patients Who Are Immunocompromised—Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Convalescent Plasma Offers ‘Blueprint’ For Future Pandemics—The Hub

How a Boy’s Blood Stopped an Outbreak—The Wall Street Journal (Opinion)

Transcript information:
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13min
March 12, 2025867 - Everything Is Tuberculosis: A Conversation With John Green
About this episode:
John Green is a New York Times bestselling author and YouTuber known for writing books like The Fault In Our Stars. His latest book is about tuberculosis. In this episode: A conversation with John Green about why he chose to write about TB, the current state of public health and its challenges, and how the disease and its prevalance reflects so much back on us in terms of who we are as a society.
Guest:
John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All the Way Down, and The Anthropocene Reviewed. With his brother, Hank, John has co-created many online video projects, including Vlogbrothers and the educational channel Crash Course. John serves on the board of trustees for the global health nonprofit Partners In Health and spoke at the United Nations High-Level Meeting on the Fight to End Tuberculosis. John lives with his family in Indianapolis. You can visit him online at http://johngreenbooks.com or join the TB Fighters working to end tuberculosis at http://tbfighters.org .
Host:
Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Show links and related content:

Everything Is Tuberculosis (book)—http://Everythingistb.com

Henry Reider, TB Survivor—YouTube

Henry’s story–Vlogbrothers

Tuberculosis in the U.S.—Public Health On Call (February, 2025)

Transcript information:
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15min
March 11, 2025866 - Vaccines 101: Understanding the Vaccines on the Childhood Vaccination Schedule
About this episode:
In another episode in our series on vaccines: the different types of vaccines and how they work, and the logic and timing of the childhood vaccination schedule. Also: A conversation about measles vaccinations for children younger than 1 year.
Guest:
Dr. Bill Moss is the executive director of the International Vaccine Access Center at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Host:
Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast, an editor for Expert Insights, and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Show links and related content:

Vaccines 101 Series: From Molecular Science to Global Policy—Public Health On Call

All About the Recommended Immunization Schedules—http://Healthychildren.org

What experts say about childhood vaccines amid the Texas measles outbreak—ScienceNews

Transcript information:
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