PUBLIC HEALTH IS DEAD

a PUBLIC HEALTH PODCAST.

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

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  • YOU DESERVE TO KNOW.

    Is everyone sick more often than they used to be?

    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!

    Public Health is Dead takes on the decline of public health in the era of COVID and maps out a path towards better health for everyone.

    Global leaders have washed their hands of responsibility for our collective health. Anti-science supervillains are taking a sledgehammer to centuries of progress. And we are far from ready for what the future holds.

    If you’re sick and tired of bad public health decisions, you’ll like this show.

    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, importantly, what we can do about it to survive.

    This might be the very thing that helps you through the storms ahead.

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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 and rumours about COVID protections swarmed as public health leaders took a gamble on children’s health. 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. It doesn’t have to be this way. No child should be harmed from preventable disease.

This series goes into North America’s fraught history of schooling, 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 must public health do better for some of the most marginalized members of our communities?

In collaboration with Good Egg Audio.

Good Egg Audio

Featured EPISODES

🏆 Most Awarded:
The airborne transmission error

How a tiny historical mistake made for a present day catastrophe. Public health decision-makers were too slow to let go of ‘droplet dogma’ and slower to act. Handwashing doesn’t stop diseases spread by inhaling particles—something’s in the air... and it might be a paradigm shift.

📈 Most LISTENED TO:
AN AIR-RAISING EXPERIENCE AT THE ORPHEUM

After the 1918 flu pandemic, buildings like the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver, BC were built with simple yet sophisticated ways to clean the air. Come on a field trip to check it out and learn how it works!

🤓 host pick:
HOW THE MEDIA MANUFACTURES CONSENT IN THE AGE OF COVID

Tracing the whiplash in the news media from “we’re all in this together” to “you’re on your own”. How anti-vaxx talking points were mainstreamed in favour of putting profit over people.

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  • As close to a pandemic guide as we've got. Clear, evidence based and approachable - and actually fun to listen to! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    Amydigs (Apple Podcasts Review, Australia)

  • PHiD Is Fantastic. Very informative and professional. This is exactly what is needed to combat the anti-science and anti-intellectualism world we are mired in. Please continue to make more episodes! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    IPMatNBG (Apple Podcasts Review, Canada)

  • Thaaaaank you! I was starting to doubt the whole profession, as an outsider. This podcast restores my ideal of public health. And it is fun to listen to ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    giantpandinha (Apple Podcasts Review, United Kingdom)

  • IMPORTANT STUFF. GREAT CONTENT—IMPORTANT, RICH INFO ABOUT CUTTING EDGE SCIENCE BOILED DOWN TO BE ACCESSIBLE AND BEAUTIFULLY NARRATED ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    mayazrm (Apple Podcasts Review, United States)

  • My ears are dead. Public health grad here...Daniella is exactly why public health is dead - she makes everything a political wedge issue. ⭐

    Notmyrealnametoday (Apple Podcasts Review, Canada)

  • Well done and thank you for doing this! So glad i found this podcast. it's such a great resource and a comfort knowing you are all out there. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

    glitterpup64 (Apple Podcasts Review, United States)

Meet Daniella, host of Public Health is DeaD.

“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.”

— Octavia E. Butler “Parable of the Sower”