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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is taking a public health approach to reducing gun violence.

So far, the city has seen an unprecedented reduction in the number of homicides and other violent crimes. He discusses this progress on Public Health On Call 🎧

podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/973-baltimor...

An orange graphic emblazoned with the word “WINNER,” recognizing the Public Health On Call podcast’s wins at the 2025 Signal Awards. The special episode “The Fight for a Swimmable Harbor in Baltimore" earned silver in the Science & Education category for Individual Episodes and the Vaccines 101 series won bronze in the Science & Education category for Limited Series and Specials.

Public Health On Call has won two Signal Awards 🎉

🥈"The Fight for a Swimmable Harbor in Baltimore" in the Science & Education category for Individual Episodes

🥉Our Vaccines 101 series in the Science & Education category for Limited Series and Specials

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For our upcoming 1,000th episode, hosts @drjoshs.bsky.social, @sdesmon.bsky.social, and @lindsaysmithrogers.bsky.social are answering YOUR questions on the podcast.

🎙️Email your question as a voice memo to PublicHealthQuestion@jhu.edu by Oct. 31.

Thank you for sharing our work!

Thank you, @publichealthpod.bsky.social for the opportunity! As a longtime listener who has learned so much from the podcast, I was both honored and grateful for the chance to contribute and share about our work to make buprenorphine available in all San Francisco pharmacies.

Can a spoonful of sugar really cure your hiccups?

Joe and Terry Graedon of @peoplespharmacy.bsky.social discuss some of their favorite, evidence-backed home remedies and their approach to balancing alternative medicine with scientific data.

podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/961-the-scie...

Seeking Covid Shots for Their Children, Some Parents Hit a Wall

After actions by the administration to limit access to Covid vaccinations, parents in some parts of the country are struggling to find vaccines to protect their young kids. Gift link:

Lived a dream tonight and got to show @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social a pic of his biggest fan!

Does taking Tylenol during pregnancy cause autism in children?

@bklee.bsky.social and @lizstuart.bsky.social break down the science of causality on Public Health On Call 🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/953-interpre...

What’s happening to all of the lifesaving supplies from abandoned USAID projects?

@theatlantic.com's @hana-kiros.bsky.social explains on Public Health On Call 🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/947-taxpayer...

• 10-15% genetic mutations that are new to a child—not inherited

• 50% linked to combo of many common inherited variants of genes

• Remaining causes are murky

AND:

“If you have this mutation, it doesn’t guarantee that you will have autism, but it increases the risk substantially"

Autism Has No Single Cause. Here’s How We Know Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly comp...

Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly complex

Public Health On Call: 942 - Could One Health Prevent the Next Pandemic? About this episode: Animal-to-human transmission of bacteria and viruses have triggered outbreaks of diseases like avian influenza, COVID-19, and Ebola. A public health approach called One Health can help us to better understand these cases—and possibly help prevent future pandemics. In this episode: Professors Emily Gurley and Raina Plowright explain how One Health investigations work, why they’re an effective tool for addressing spillover events, and a new One Health Coursera course that you can preview for free: Guest: , PhD, MPH, is a professor in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she focuses on infectious disease and outbreak investigation. , PhD, MS, is a veterinarian and the Rudolf J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Host: Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA, is the producer of the , an editor for , and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Show links and related content: —Emerging Infectious Diseases —Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine —Global Health Now —Public Health On Call (November 2021) Transcript Information: Looking for episode transcripts? Open our podcast on the Apple Podcasts app (desktop or mobile) or the Spotify mobile app to access an auto-generated transcript of any episode. Closed captioning is also available for every episode on our YouTube channel. Contact us: Have a question about something you heard? Looking for a transcript? Want to suggest a topic or guest? Contact us or . Follow us: Here's our Note: These podcasts are a conversation between the participants, and do not represent the position of Johns Hopkins University.

Lemon orchards, bees, El Niño, and Hendra virus....One Health investigations go deep to understand the complex factors behind spillover events. In today's ep: A look at how these investigations can help prevent future pandemics: podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/942-could-on...

Tired of public health people saying "MAHA is a great slogan!"

What do ya'll think AGAIN means? Show me this GOLDEN AGE of good health.

I believe we were on track for it...PrEP for HIV, mRNA vaccines for cancer, free school lunches, telehealth, ACA, microplastic regulation....

NOT ANYMORE.

@drandrewthaler.bsky.social !!

Again - this is long overdue reform in some cases, but it’s a distraction. It’s reshuffling deck chairs on the Titanic of American health which has hit multiple icebergs of policy changes.

“If Kennedy is able to do what he wants to do as the head of the H.H.S., we won’t even need health care,” Zen Honeycutt, the founder of the nonprofit Moms Across America, said in December. “I’m saying we won’t be going to the doctor’s because we won’t be sick.”

So glad these people are running the country
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

936 - The New Reality Facing Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA

Today on @publichealthpod.bsky.social: "I think the fundamental question comes down to whether you think healthcare is a right or a privilege."

open.spotify.com/episode/7HYL...

Exum - residual gunk expert 🎓

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants You all deserved better.

"this is not about reform. It is about retribution. It is about breaking people and breaking institutions by sowing fear and mistrust throughout our government. It is about paralyzing public servants...deterring anyone from daring to speak truth to power."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Unseen Dangers of Floodwaters

"After local officials give the all-clear, it’s a good idea to let the water run for a while to flush the pipes of any residual gunk" ☣️🚿

@nataliegexum.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

Your move, insurance companies.

"Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?"

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Covid accelerates vascular aging
An 18-country, 38-center study of ~2,000 participants
—Effect predominantly in women, adding 5 years of aging
—Seen with non-hospitalized and mild-moderate Covid
—Reversible in some at 1-year; vaccination link to protection
apps.crossref.org/pendingpub/p...

Prof. Vasilis Vasiliou won’t let any of his five children play on artificial turf fields.

Find out why ⬇️
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Fixing the food system ≠ food dye distractions.

It's ensuring:

- SNAP, WIC, & school meals
- safe supply and clear labeling
- innovation "from farm to fork"

👉 But/and: "a plan, structure, and authority for coordination are essential." And this is where success is most uncertain.

Training Health Communicators — The Need for a New Approach | NEJM To prevent the spread of inaccurate information, academic and health care institutions will need to equip scientists and clinicians to engage effectively on nontraditional media platforms.

Public health has a communication problem, and we need to fix it.

Excited to share our new piece in @nejm.org explaining the need to train more health communicators, with coauthors @meganranney.bsky.social, @kkjetelina.bsky.social, and @tedmelnick.bsky.social:

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Bullets in the windows Until now, it was only a metaphor.

“Those bullet holes are a haunting, terrible metaphor for what public health has endured over the past six months—and the past six years.” @kkjetelina.bsky.social

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933 - Fall Vaccine Confusion with Your Local Epidemiologist Public Health On Call · Episode

@kkjetelina.bsky.social

Where "omg this is such a mess" meets "let's just press record and talk this out."

tl;dr: Fall vaccines are anything but business as usual this year and all eyes will be on independent orgs and health insurance companies.

Let's listen.

open.spotify.com/episode/4C7p...

FDA may pull authorization of Pfizer's Covid vaccine for children under 5, company says The potential move to rescind authorization of Pfizer's vaccine could leave some kids in the U.S. with no available shots against Covid.

As a parent to a child with a heart condition, this is terrifying. It seems possible, given a light summer surge and the fact that basically no one will be boosted this fall, that we'll have to resort to some stay-at-home situation this winter to protect our child.

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/12/f...