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Public Health is DeadAuthor: Public Health is Dead
Public Health is Dead is an award-winning public health show. It's a forward-thinking autopsy on how we've f*cked up in public health. How do we prepare for future pandemics while we're already in the thick of one? And how do we reinvent systems that place some of us closer to death? Through examining our past successes and failures, often through the lens of COVID, we plot a route out of apathy and denial towards health liberation for all. You'll hear unusual tales of how we've battled infectious disease throughout history and mind-stretching interviews with undaunted public health advocates today. This podcast is your anti-establishment field guide to surviving in the era of pandemics full of vision, hope, and a little punk rock attitude. Public Health is Dead is a eulogy for the field as we know it and a gathering of voices to map out where we go next. *** Public Health is Dead is a 2025 Signal Award-winning podcast for Best Education Podcast (Gold) and Best Science Podcast (Silver). It also won Gold at the W3 Awards in Science & Technology and was nominated in the 2025 International Women's Podcast Awards for "Moment of Factual Clarity". *** Visit publichealthisdead.com for more information Language: en-ca Genres: Science, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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PHMC - Everything is Tuberculosis
Wednesday, 21 January, 2026
Book report! What Daniella & MJ liked and didn't like about John Green's newest book, "Everything is Tuberculosis". Written in the age of COVID, does he address the thing TB is known for: airborne disease transmission? Can he separate himself from tired old tropes of white saviourism in Africa? Do we think the book does enough to challenge the systems producing inequity in the first place? Hit play and our opinions will be revealed!Another crossover episode edited by MJ of Everything is Public Health.RESOURCESMe-to-We/The Kielburgers' WE Charity ScandalWE Charity misled donors about building schools in Kenya, records show [CBC]WE is actually we [Briarpatch]WE charity scandal - A simple guide to the new crisis for Trudeau [BBC]Canadian Medical Association's Apology for harms to Indigenous PeoplesTuberculosis among Inuit How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney(Note/Correction: Daniella quotes a sentence from the book that says "Inuit people" but this is redundant as Inuit means "the people" in Inuktitut therefore should have only said "Inuit".) This is an independent, listener-supported show. If you like what you hear, and you'd like to support production costs for more of Public Health is Dead, visit publichealthisdead.com!
