PUBLIC HEALTH IS DEAD

a NEW PUBLIC HEALTH PODCAST.

Your anti-establishment field guide to surviving in the age of pandemics.

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YOU DESERVE TO KNOW.

If you have a feeling all is not well in the world of disease control,
If your kids are sick of being sick (and their teachers are, too),
If your favourite artists keep cancelling their shows because of a “mystery illness”,
... this podcast is for you!
Working against apathy and denial in public health can be exhausting when global leaders have washed their hands of responsibility for our collective health. If you are sick and tired of bad public health decisions, you’ll like Public Health is Dead.
Disease control data have quite literally been deleted, public health education is radio silent, and old pathogens are waking up with a vengeance.
Our quest on this show? Figure out how to make public health work for us, not against us.
New pandemics are breathing down our necks, driven by climate change and capitalism, and COVID is definitely not over. It might just be getting started with us. This airborne disease continues to leave a trail of damage, disability, and reinfection in its path.
We are far from ready for what the future holds.
On Public Health is Dead, undaunted public health advocates examine what’s not working in disease control, why it matters so much for you and the people you love, and, most importantly, what we can do about it to survive.
Public health is failing us. And you deserve to know.

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“But, Dad, that’s like… ignoring a fire in the living room because we’re all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.”

— Octavia E. Butler “Parable of the Sower”

PUBLIC HEALTH IS DEAD

a NEW PUBLIC HEALTH PODCAST.

YOU DESERVE TO KNOW.

Dearly beloved,

welcome to Public Health is Dead.

episodes.

“These things frighten people. It’s best not to talk about them.”“But, Dad, that’s like… ignoring a fire in the living room because we’re all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.”

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“These things frighten people. It’s best not to talk about them.”
“But, Dad, that’s like… ignoring a fire in the living room because we’re all in the kitchen, and, besides, house fires are too scary to talk about.”