289 - We Stand With Public Health Part 2: By the Numbers

In a special 4-part series excerpted from a webcast, we look at the extraordinary challenges facing the field of public health in the COVID era. Today, Dr. Beth Resnick and Paulani Mui of Johns Hopkins talk about their research on the issue of challenges facing public health officers during the pandemic. They put current challenges in the context of long-standing underfunding of critical public health infrastructure. The presentation referenced in this episode can be seen in the recorded webcast here: https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/news-and-events/events/2021/february-24.html KEYWORDS: misinformation; pandemic response; policy