What is public health? A quick intro to the show, your host, and what to expect. Public health may be dead but we're not dead yet!

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If you’ve always wanted more clarity about what public health is or how it’s meant to protect you, this episode is a short one to share a working definition, set the stage for the show and let you know a bit more about your host, Daniella, your guide on this journey towards better health for all of us! 

You'll understand how everything is connected to public health, why we need this podcast now, and why it's  focused on COVID. Climate change, capitalism, and constant global travel have created a feedback loop and ushered in the era of pandemics. Old-timey diseases are waking up next to new ones, the organizations and leaders that are supposed to be controlling diseases appear to have given up. So it looks like it’s up to us. 

Public health may be dead but we’re not dead yet! 

Public Health is Dead will gather a bunch of people resisting public health failures to share their knowledge and experiences and hopefully help us survive in these times. This show might be the very thing that helps you through the storms ahead. 

TRANSCRIPT HERE

FYI It’s a bad idea for you to take medical advice from podcasts. Good thing Public Health is Dead does not offer medical advice! The point of this show is to share experiences and information that might help public health as a field and increase our collective knowledge. As always, if you have particular medical concerns of your own you should talk to your medical providers.

CREDITS
Public Health is Dead is created, hosted, written, produced and edited by Daniella Barreto
Content editing by Lauren M. 
Music: 
Intro/Outro music from Epidemic Sound: OTF/Black and White
Epidemic Sound: Ludvig Moulin/Bats and Rats  
Effects: Healing Spell, Short, Holy, Ethereal, Video Game, JRPG 02 - Epidemic Sound

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