Salud Talks Podcast Episode 43: Preparing for the Next Pandemic

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The pandemic revealed long-standing gaps in infection control knowledge and understanding among the frontline healthcare workforce.

This is why CDC launched Project Firstline, a training and education collaborative designed to ensure all healthcare workers, no matter their role or educational background, have the infection control knowledge and understanding they need and deserve to protect themselves, their patients, and their coworkers.

Salud America! at UT Health San Antonio, in partnership with the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) and CDC Project Firstline, brings you a two-part episode podcast series, “Behind the Mask,” to explore infection control.

In this special Episode 43 of the Salud Talks Podcast, Dr. Jorge Moreno, assistant professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine and internist and obesity medicine specialist, and Dr. Elena Rios, previous leader of NHMA and current president of the National Hispanic Health Foundation (NHHF), discuss how Latino healthcare providers can implement infection control practices to be ready for the next pandemic.

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WHAT: A special #SaludTalks Podcast discussion about how Latino healthcare workers can prepare for the next pandemic.

WHERE: Available on SoundCloud.

WHEN: The episode went live at noon (CT) on July 18, 2024.

WHO: Alyssa Gonzales, Salud America! Salud Talks Podcast Producer; Amelie Ramirez, DrPH, director of Salud America! and its home base, the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio; Elena Rios, MD, MSPH, MACP, formerly of NHMA and currently of NHHF; Jorge Moreno, MD, Dipl. ABOM, of Yale School of Medicine.

In this episode, we explore questions such as:

• Which is better, handwashing with soap and water or hand sanitizer?
• What’s the importance of equipment like using gowns, gloves, and eye protection when treating patients?
• How might poor hand hygiene contribute to the spread of disease in the healthcare setting?
• How can healthcare workers improve communication techniques if another pandemic should happen?

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