We just talked live with Katelyn Jetelina, the public health communicator behind the Your Local Epidemiologist newsletter, about how RFK Jr.’s MAHA movement has seized on real frustrations with the healthcare status quo, why public health experts must meet people where they are, and how American health care systems and institutions could be rebuilt to empower people to truly be healthy again (or for the first time). Jetelina talked to us about:
What she’s learned from talking to, listening to, and working with MAHA activists — even as their efforts threaten her profession
Why she’s so worried about vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccination rates, and why we might have to go backwards to go forward
How one solution to America’s problems might be going out and getting in your 7,000 steps while making calls to your representatives
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