Our Challenging Public Health series invites speakers from outside of public health to reflect on the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This conversation features Rebecca Traister, writer at large for New York magazine and author of Good and Mad, All the Single Ladies, and Big Girls Don?t Cry discussing her perspectives on how public health can do better.

At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:
– Describe how inequitable social policies that influence the health of the public were highlighted in the pandemic
– Discuss the role of journalists and how public health professionals can effectively interact with them in moving policies that shape public health
– Discuss the role of state and federal politics in the future of public health