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Interview #1 Dr. Sandoval will discuss the challenges of protecting essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic and climate & environmental crisis that disproportionately impact working class people of color. Sal will reflect on his vast experience and share his vision for a public health infrastructure that truly serves our people. Dr. Sandoval has been involved in the rural San Joaquin Valley of California for most of his life. First as a family medicine physician working with Spanish speaking people, farmworkers, food processing workers, all the rural poor and homeless. For over three years, he has been a public health doctor, during the the COVID-19 pandemic. He has served on the National Advisory Council for Migrant Health and is on the Editorial Board of the Tribuno del Pueblo, writing extensively for a public health and medical care system that serves everyone. Link: https://tribunodelpueblo.org/home/ Interview #2 Janhavi, is a health student leader and will bring her perspective as a medical student and dedicated abolitionist to the forefront of our Public Health Pulse podcast! She will discuss her work to dismantle white supremacy in health institutions, the harm of incarceration to human health and her vision for a just and liberated public health infrastructure. Janhavi is a born and raised Georgian with experience in health policy, medicine, and public health. She is a medical student and the Director of the Atlanta chapter of the Campaign Against Racism (CAR). She uses her abolitionist lens to identify the historical connections between white supremacy, capitalism and racism and imagines a future where our {health} systems work toward health equity. She plans to practice medicine in Georgia and hopes to open a formerly incarcerated transition clinic in the state to assist individuals who experienced the carceral system. Link: http://www.equalhealth.org/campaign-against-racism Host: Rita Valenti is a Registered Nurse, retired from Grady Health Systems. She is deeply engaged with health and healing justice strategies as a focus of her political work. She holds membership in many diverse healthcare organizations and healing justice collectives including, the People’s CDC, Healthcare-NOW, Georgia Physicians for a National Health Program, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and the Healthcare Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. She is a co-founder of Project South, a former Georgia State Legislator and frequent speaker on the embedded harms in corporate private healthcare, while promoting the necessity for free, universal, equitable, comprehensive and trusted healthcare for all. Links: https://peoplescdc.org https://lrna.org Produced by: Rita Valenti Executive Produced by: Crescent City Media Group https://www.the-mediagroup.us Supported by: Project South https://projectsouth.org

We will briefly discuss the current landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications of ending the Public Health Emergency. We’ll look at some practical steps to address the current and likely future pandemics. And finally, we’ll raise the question of what kind of public health and scientific infrastructure could we have and need? Rob Wallace is a co-founder of the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps and Pandemic Research for the People. He is author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and most recently, the critically important and timely: The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era. He has consulted for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and is an active contributor to the People’s CDC. Book Link: https://nyupress.org/9781583679937/the-fault-in-our-sars/ Today’s interview with Dr. Jirmanus will explore the reasons for creating the PCDC External Review of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Biden era of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Dr. Lara Jirmanus is a family physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance and a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School and faculty at the CHA Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy. She founded and coordinates the Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity that advocates for an equitable response to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. She is a member of the People’s CDC and the lead author of the People’s CDC External Review, “Too Many Deaths, Too Many Left Behind”. We invite you to read “Too Many Deaths, Too Many Left Behind,”: The Fact Sheet, Executive Summary and the Full Report and its critically important recommendations. Report Link: https://peoplescdc.org/2023/04/05/too-many-deaths-too-many-left-behind-a-peoples-external-review-of-the-cdc/Host: Rita Valenti is a Registered Nurse, retired from Grady Health Systems. She is deeply engaged with health and healing justice strategies as a focus of her political work. She holds membership in many diverse healthcare organizations and healing justice collectives including, the People’s CDC, Healthcare-NOW, Georgia Physicians for a National Health Program, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and the Healthcare Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. She is a co-founder of Project South, a former Georgia State Legislator and frequent speaker on the embedded harms in corporate private healthcare, while promoting the necessity for free, universal, equitable, comprehensive and trusted healthcare for all. Links: https://peoplescdc.org https://lrna.org Produced by: Rita Valenti Executive Produced by: Crescent City Media Group https://www.the-mediagroup.us Supported by: Project South https://projectsouth.org

Interview #1 Cara Page is a Black Queer Feminist cultural memory worker and organizer. For 30 years, she has organized with LGBTQI+/Black, Indigenous & People of Color Liberation movements in the U.S. & Global South at the intersections of racial, gender & economic justice, healing justice and transformative justice. She is co-founder of the Healing Histories Project, a network of abolitionist healers/health practitioners and more who are engaged in building solidarity to interrupt harmful systems of care in the Medical Industrial Complex. Cara is co-author with Erica Woodland of Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care and Safety, now available! Book Link: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710523/healing-justice-lineages-by-cara-page/ Interview #2 The pandemic laid bare the structural inequities that exist in our society. Settler colonialism, genocide and slavery have shaped the health outcomes and the existing dearth of quality and universal public health infrastructures especially in Puerto Rico and the U.S. South. Edgar will discuss this landscape from his working-class roots and intellectual work and illuminate a vision for another way for forward. Edgar Rivera Colón, PhD is a medical anthropologist at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine and a Course Director at Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine Certificate of Professional Achievement program. He teaches courses on health justice and the history of racism in medicine. He co-authored the textbook, The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine. He recently published with Patrick Hebert, “Slow Burn, Humid Pitch: Cultivating Care While Livin’ La COVIDa Loca” and hosts the ‘Karl Marx Ate My Field Notes’ podcast, on politics and spirituality. Link: https://nacla.org/news/2020/08/07/slow-burn-humid-pitch Host: Rita Valenti is a Registered Nurse, retired from Grady Health Systems. She is deeply engaged with health and healing justice strategies as a focus of her political work. She holds membership in many diverse healthcare organizations and healing justice collectives including, the People’s CDC, Healthcare-NOW, Georgia Physicians for a National Health Program, Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and the Healthcare Committee of the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. She is a co-founder of Project South, a former Georgia State Legislator and frequent speaker on the embedded harms in corporate private healthcare, while promoting the necessity for free, universal, equitable, comprehensive and trusted healthcare for all. Links: https://peoplescdc.org https://lrna.org Produced by: Rita Valenti Executive Produced by: Crescent City Media Group https://www.the-mediagroup.us Supported by: Project South https://projectsouth.org