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Public Health On Call
Public Health On Call
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.

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Episodes

881 - The Building H Index: Ranking Consumer Products By Their Impacts On Our Health

About this episode: Consumer products from auto makers to housing developers to streaming and food delivery services all have impacts... more

09 Apr 2025 · 16 minutes
880 - “The FDA As We’ve Known It Is Finished”

About this episode: Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services abruptly fired around 10,000 employees, 3,500 of which... more

08 Apr 2025 · 23 minutes
879 - The Impacts of Terminating COVID-era Funding for States

About this episode: The Department of Health and Human Services’s abrupt termination of $11 billion in health funding to states... more

07 Apr 2025 · 13 minutes
878 - Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the ER

About this episode: People come to the emergency department seeking all kinds of urgent care. What if they could also... more

03 Apr 2025 · 16 minutes
877 - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

About this episode: For 25 years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has been a global effort to purchase and distribute lifesaving... more

02 Apr 2025 · 17 minutes
876 - Preventing Mpox Transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

About this episode: Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly clade of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,... more

31 Mar 2025 · 16 minutes
875 - 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... more

27 Mar 2025 · 25 minutes
874 - 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... more

26 Mar 2025 · 19 minutes
873 - 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... more

24 Mar 2025 · 15 minutes
872 - Ketamine and Esketamine

About this episode: Ketamine is in the news again. In this episode: a conversation about the differences between ketamine and... more

20 Mar 2025 · 17 minutes