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Episode 218

When MisInformation Becomes a Health Crisis w/ Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Johns Hopkins

Sep 4, 2026
50:22

Episode Description

Health misinformation is no longer a fringe problem on the margins of public health. It has a measurable body count, and the systems that once reliably corrected it, local journalism, trusted institutions, and federal health agencies, are eroding fast.

Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and co-author of "Information Sick," joins host John Marchica to examine why the collapse of local news and the flood of health misinformation now constitute a public health crisis in their own right, and what health systems, clinicians, and institutions can actually do about it before the next outbreak arrives.

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๐ŸŽ™ ABOUT DR. JOSHUA SHARFSTEIN
Dr. Sharfstein is Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, director of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, and Professor of the Practice in Health Policy and Management. Previously, he served as the Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Principal Deputy Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, as Commissioner of Health for Baltimore City, and as health policy advisor for Congressman Henry A. Waxman. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration.

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