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Public Health is Dead

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Public Health is Dead is an award-winning public health advocacy 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 new age 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" and 3x in the 2025 Canadian Podcast Awards for Outstanding Debut for a Series, Outstanding Science Series, and Outstanding Health & Wellness Series. *** Visit publichealthisdead.com for more information

Latest episodes

  • Hantavirus Horrors and Hubris - PHMC

    June 24, 2026 · 43 min

    "Should you be worried?" is the wrong question for the media to be asking about public health issues. We need good information to make good decisions. But global public health leaders seem more concerned about avoiding panic than avoiding…

  • TIME for Pandemic Gaslighting - PHMC

    April 24, 2026 · 58 min

    This is a piece from the "pandemic-is-over-bro-just-trust-us" hall of fame. Daniella & MJ (host of "Everything is Public Health") deconstruct TIME magazine's "The COVID-19 Pandemic Will Be Over When Americans Think It Is" from January…

  • Legacies of Colonialism in Public Health

    April 15, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min

    Public health has been used as a tool of empire for centuries. Keeping settlers healthy enough to maintain colonial control over land, resources, and capital is a part of public health’s history. It’s also part of its present. *Content…

  • Everything is Tuberculosis - PHMC

    January 21, 2026 · 45 min

    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…

  • SPECIAL: Beyond Baggy Blues—how to stop COVID in hospitals

    December 25, 2025 · 41 min

    If you go into hospital, you shouldn’t have to worry about getting more sick. Many people get COVID, flu, and other airborne infections from being in hospital, even though it’s preventable. This is a policy failure. And it's fixable. Dr…

  • Bad Press: How the media manufactures consent in the age of COVID

    November 28, 2025 · 1 hr 16 min

    Most people get a lot of what they know about public health from what’s in the news. But what’s in the news—and the way it’s talked about—is not always clear or accurate.   This episode tracks how the media has contributed to the alarming…

  • Measles on the Backburner - PHMC

    September 3, 2025 · 1 hr 1 min

    Canada could lose its measles elimination status, which says a lot about the state of public health overall. Media coverage leaves much to be desired when it comes to informing the public about measles vaccines, airborne transmission, and…

  • Still Masking After All These Years - PHMC

    July 16, 2025 · 54 min

    This is Public Health Media Club—a chatty and critical exchange about public health in the media! Daniella (of "Public Health is Dead") & MJ (of "Everything is Public Health") do a crossover episode about COVID, people still masking, and…