Public Health is Dead
Episodes
TIME for Pandemic Gaslighting
24 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 mag...
Legacies of Colonialism in Public Health
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Content Note: This episode contains mentions of residential schools and colonial violence. (Transcript HERE). Public health has been used as a tool of...
Everything is Tuberculosis
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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...
SPECIAL: Beyond Baggy Blues—how to stop COVID in hospitals
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
Bad Press: How the media manufactures consent in the age of COVID
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
PHMC - Measles on the Backburner
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
PHMC - Still Masking After All These Years
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 "Eve...
SPECIAL: "But My Therapist Said"—COVID-Informed Therapists Chat
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever heard anyone say they can't care about COVID anymore because it's bad for their mental health? Or their therapist said people still masking have ...
How to Stop an Epidemic: When SARS Came to the ER
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In March 2003, one SARS patient showed up in a Vancouver emergency room and another went to a Toronto emergency room. But two very different sequences...
Something's in the Air (The Airborne Transmission Error)
09 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How a mixup about airborne transmission led to one of the biggest public health errors in history. 5 years since the COVID pandemic began, public heal...
An Air-Raising Experience at the Orpheum Theatre
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A field trip to the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver to learn more about their ventilation system, built after the 1918 flu pandemic. Ladies and Gentleth...
Long COVID: The Experts Were Wrong with Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly and Hazie Thompson
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Could you have Long COVID and not know it? Possibly, according to a leading Long COVID physician-epidemiologist who explains what the condition is and...
Here Lies Public Health
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is public health? A quick intro to the show, your host, and what to expect. Public health may be dead but we're not dead yet!***If you’ve alway...
Introducing Public Health is Dead
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you have a feeling something isn’t quite right in the world of disease control...If your kids are sick of being sick (and their teachers are too)...