About this episode:

The day after the 2024 presidential election, Joe Amon—the brand new director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights—was set to give a speech for a panel about health discrimination. But the one he'd prepared wasn't going to cut it for a moment suddenly marked by uncertainty and change. He pivoted to a different message: one that acknowledges that public health doesn't have everything figured out, and that it works best when it's viewed as a social movement. In this episode: a moment of reflection for the field, considerations of some of the challenges that lay ahead, and the critical importance of thinking about public health as a human right. Note: You can read an adaptation of the speech in the link below.

Guest:

Joe Amon is the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights.

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:

Post-Election Public Health Needs to Keep On Keeping On—Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine

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828 - Public Health is a Human Right