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The American Health Podcast is created by the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, a project of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Initiative works to tackle some of the most pressing challenges to public health in the United States: Addiction and Overdose, Environmental Challenges, Obesity and the Food System, Risks to Adolescent Health and Violence. Visit www.jhsph.edu/BAHI to learn more.

Nov 15, 2018

Two years ago, in the face of grim news that life expectancy in the United States was declining, Bloomberg Philanthropies gave the school of public health a transformational gift to create the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. The goal was straightforward but daunting: use the tools of public health to address some of the issues that are driving the decline: Addiction and overdose, Environmental Challenges, Obesity and the Food System, Risks to Adolescent Health, and Violence. In this episode, we talk to Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the Initiative and about a new journal supplement that takes an in depth look at the five focus areas and provides a road map for how public health and other sectors can work to tackle these challenges.