Chronic Disease & You, Mike Klag, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health


This is the one hundred and forty-ninth episode of Public Interest Podcast with Dr. Mike Klag, Dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, former commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service, former Vice Dean for Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, former graduate of the school in which he served as dean for 12 years.

Dr. Klag is an internist and epidemiologist noted for work on hypertension, kidney, and cardio-vascular disease correlating those diseases with race, socio-economic status, blood pressure, and diabetes, he is a professor of medicine and public health, he is the author of 200 publications, and he is the founder of the Wendy Klag Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. He speaks about the burdens posed by chronic disease, his efforts to enhance international collaboration to face public health challenges, and the importance of ensuring that adequate resources are allocated towards research of the most pressing public health challenges of the 21st century.


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