Stephanie Desmon is communications director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and a co-host and producer of Public Health on Call, an award-winning podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A former journalist, she has been with the podcast since its launch at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The podcast has produced more than 1,100 episodes and has been downloaded more than 12 million times. Stephanie holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University and is the co-author, with Arturo Casadevall, of the 2024 book, “What if Fungi Win?,” from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Stephanie Desmon
Co-host and producer, Public Health on Call podcast, Communications Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Speakers and Panelists
Phil Anglewicz
Director, William H. Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health
Jennifer Sciubba
President and CEO, Population Reference Bureau
Sam Myers
Director, Planetary Health Alliance and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health
Luba Zeifman
Population Affairs Officer, UN Statistics Division
Apoorva Jadhav
Demographic Futures Lead, William H. Gates Sr. Institute for Population and Reproductive Health and Senior Fellow, PRB
Melissa Kearney
Gilbert F. Schaefer Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Wang Feng
Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Mahesh Karra
Associate Professor of Population and Family Health, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health
Jack Goldstone
Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University and Senior Fellow, Mercatus Center
Monica Duffy Toft
Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security Studies, Tufts University
C. Tadeusz Kugler
Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations, Roger Williams University
Ben Zaitchik
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health and Chair and Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, JHU
Kevin Kuruc
Assistant Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
Brian O’Neill
Scientist & Professor, Center for Global Sustainability at the University of Maryland in College Park
Deborah Balk
Director, Cuny Institute for Demographic Research
Ruth Braunstein
Professor of Sociology, SNF Agora Institute
Elizabeth Fussell
Professor of Population Studies and Environment and Society, Brown University
Clive Mutunga
Founder, CHED Solutions
Rachel Marcus
Executive Director, Planetary Health Alliance and the Institute for Planetary Health
Nandita Bajaj
Executive Director, Population Balance
Kathleen Mogelgaard
President and CEO, Population Institute
Sono Aibe
Principal consultant at CHED Solutions
Carolina Cardona
Health economist and Assistant Scientist, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Alex Ezeh
Dornsife Professor of Global Health and Associate Dean for Global Health and Human Rights, Drexel University
Sathyanarayanan (Sathya) Doraiswamy
Senior Programme Advisor, Population, Development & Data, United Nations Population Fund
Feinian Chen
Professor of Sociology and Hopkins Population Center Director, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Koko Warner
Director, University of Pennsylvania International Climate Observatory
Stephanie Desmon
Co-host and producer, Public Health on Call podcast, Communications Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
Seth Borenstein
Science Writer, The Associated Press
Fernando Riosmena
Fellow, Institute of Behavioral Science Professor, Sociology and Demography, University of Texas at San Antonio Ph.D., Demography, University of Pennsylvania