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New Season In Production
Ill-Considered: Kids, schools, and the decline of public health.
Children aren’t usually thought of as a marginalized group but, from infants to youth, kids have very little power over what their lives look like. Especially when it comes to their health.
“Learning loss. Immunity debt. Mental health damage”. Misinformation about public health protections swarmed as public health leaders took a gamble on children’s health with COVID. After declarations that schools were the safest place for kids, many kids now have Long COVID. Vaccination rates are low. Coughing soundtracks classrooms. Canada has lost its measles elimination status and Victorian-era diseases are making a comeback.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. Much of this is preventable and the answers are right in front of us.
This series looks at North America’s fraught history of schooling, goes inside schools today, and into the lives of young people to ask: What does safety for children actually mean? How can adults act in solidarity with children for a future they want to live in? And how can public health do better for some of the most marginalized members of our communities?
In collaboration with Good Egg Audio.
Hantavirus Horrors & Hubris
Focusing on avoiding panic over avoiding pandemics is a recipe for disaster. How can public health communicate transmission risk better?
Legacies of Colonialism in Public Health
Can public health break from its colonial past for a different future?
SPECIAL: Beyond Baggy Blues
Five ways to mitigate COVID transmission in hospitals with Dr. Dick Zoutman.
SPECIAL: “But my therapist said…” COVID-Informed Therapists Chat
Three mental health professionals speak on collective care and the importance of being informed about COVID as a practitioner.
How to Stop an Epidemic: When SARS Came to the ER
How an emergency physician and her team helped prevent a SARS outbreak at Vancouver General Hospital and what public health can still learn from a 2003 success.
Something’s in the Air (The Airborne Transmission Error)
How a mixup about airborne transmission led to one of the biggest public health errors in history and how we can course correct. It’s time for a paradigm change – hop aboard!
An Air-Raising Experience at the Orpheum Theatre
Take a field trip into a theatre built after the 1918 flu pandemic and learn how the ventilation system mitigates airborne disease transmission.
Long COVID: The Experts Were Wrong
A leading Long COVID researcher and a former Toronto cook living with the condition outline the growing global impact of unmitigated COVID.
Here Lies Public Health
What is public health? What is this podcast? Why so much about COVID?