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Da(N95)iella
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I make the Public Health is Dead podcast 💀 Epi MSc. Public health & liberation. Black. Chaotic bi. She/her. Opinions my own. 🖤
📍 Stolen MST land/ YVR
🕸️ www.publichealthisdead.com
☕️ https://ko-fi.com/daniella3774
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In the editing room! 🎙️ Bad Press: how the media manufactures consent in the era of COVID. Public health is often in the news but it’s not always covered well. Power influences the narratives we hear from outlets and journalists. Coming soon w/ Julia Doubleday + Kayli Jamieson. Don’t miss it! 🩷💚💀
Old-looking photo of a newspaper covering a woman's face while she's reading in a shiny robe at a breakfast table. “Public Health is Dead" pink and green podcast logo text is overlaid and the background is a CDC-sourced image of mpox under the microscope.
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Ok 👍🏾
One star Apple Podcasts review entitled “My ears are dead.” Sep 23, 2025 by username Notmyrealnametoday. “Public health grad here...Daniella is exactly why public health is dead - she makes everything a political wedge issue.” Mean Girls movie meme of two women sitting across from each other. One is blonde, wearing a pink collared shirt and a black sweater, leaning towards the other woman who had red hair. The white text reads “so you agree, public health is dead.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Our skeleton crew 💀 won TWO Signal Awards today! Best Education Podcast (Gold) and Best Science Podcast (Silver). There was some stiff competition but it held its own. Grateful the judges recognized our work and thanks to everyone who’s been supporting this project! 💀🩷💚
Announcement from the 4th Annual Signal Awards with Public Health is Dead pink and purple podcast cover art and two award stickers— Gold and Silver
October 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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There are many other important things happening but Public Health is Dead took home Gold at the W3 Awards in Science & Tech for our work on Something’s in the Air: The Airborne Transmission Error with @ukhadds.bsky.social and Katie Randall. Feel free to let a public health leader near you know.
Graphic for Public Health is Dead podcast episode showing an old black and white engraving of Icarus falling on top of a background of a green and gold microscope image of H5N1. There’s a gold sticker on the bottom left identifying it as a 2025 Gold Winner at the W3 Awards
October 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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COMING SOON. “How to stop an epidemic: When SARS came to the ER.” We had the cheat codes for stopping COVID in a 1200 page report. But we ignored it 🫠. Hear from the ER physician who helped prevent a 2003 SARS outbreak in Vancouver and what public health should’ve learned (+ can still learn)!
Public Health is dead podcast episode art for “Episode 4: How to stop an epidemic: When SARS came to the ER”. It has an old public domain image of a 2-horse-drawn Vancouver General Hospital ambulance with a man loading a stretcher into the back superimposed on a modern image of Vancouver General Hospital. The background is a purple/pink-stained microscope image of lung tissue affected by SARS. The top and bottom of the whole image is bordered by black and yellow striped caution tape.
May 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Speaking at this on Weds! If you’re free, come learn a bit about what happens on the strategy/backend of an indie show like Public Health is Dead and how to start your own podcast for public health 🎧

Register here >>>
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Event graphic for Public Health Communications Collective “Comms Crash Course: Podcasting to Amplify Public Health Messages Wednesday, May 14, 2025 • 12:30 pm ET / 9:30 am PT Cynthia Ibarra Information Coordinator, Chicago Department of Public Health Daniella Barreto Host, Public Health is Dead Emily Kwong Co-Host, Short Wave Josh Zanger Public Relations Coordinator, Chicago Department of Public Health Natalie Esparza Marketing Manager, North Sound ACH”
May 13, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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If you'd prefer to read about how public health fumbled airborne disease transmission and what we can do to get out of this mess, an awesome volunteer created a written version of Episode 3: "Something's in the Air"! 💚 #PublicHealthWeek

www.publichealthisdead.com/blog/airborn...
Cropped episode artwork of Public Health is Dead episode 3. Cutout of an engraving of Icarus falling from the sky, on a green/brown background of H5N1 under the microscope.
April 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Guess what? It’s #PublicHealthWeek.
To celebrate (commiserate) listen to the podcast Public Health is Dead: your anti-establishment field guide to surviving when institutional public health is failing. You deserve to know! 🩷💚💀
Painting with pink tint of a woman smiling and holding a skull with the words “Public Health is Dead” on top. There is pink paint splattered around the text.
April 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Ok so when exactly are we allowed to start raising Vancouver voter issues bc damn… the CO2 at the celebration event was 4145ppm (below 1000 is the guideline) after we dropped in and most people had cleared out. This is the venue in Ep 2 with poor ventilation & it wasn’t even as bad as this before.
CO2 reader showing 4145 for a celebration party after electing COPE candidate to city hall Wise Hall, East Vancouver
April 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Today I saw a rainbow *and* a blood moon eclipse! But when I told a guy on the street to look up at the eclipse he shrugged and he said “it is what it is” so I guess that’s where we are generally but here you go 🩷
A rainbow over faraway downtown Vancouver Reddish blood moon eclipse (about 3/4 covered) on a black sky
March 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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If you’ve listened to Public Health is Dead lately, this Optimus Prime-looking machine might be familiar. Aerosol scientist, @ukhadds.bsky.social is working on unlocking aerosol knowledge with the CELEBS technique, using these machines that look like Transformers 🤖 Learn how in the new episode!
‪Blue, grey and red rectangular machine with lots of tubes and lights attached, positioned on a tabletop Original blue grey and red Optimus Prime transformer with right arm out holding a blue weapon‬
March 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Different diseases spread differently. Interrupting the ways they spread is a major part of public health’s job. With our growing understanding of pathogens, we thought we knew it all. But pride comes before a fall. This episode is the story of how we flew too close to the sun 2/
Graphic for Public Health is Dead podcast episode showing an old black and white engraving of Icarus falling on top of a background of a green and gold microscope image of H5N1
March 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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✨NEW EPISODE 🎧 Even 5 years into the ongoing COVID pandemic, public health leaders have stuck to the idea that sprayed droplets are the main way COVID (+influenza etc) spread. But a lot of disease transmission happens through the air we share and many people still don’t know 1/
Painting with pink tint of a woman smiling and holding a skull with the words “Public Health is Dead” on top. There is pink paint splattered around the text.
March 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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New Public Health is Dead episode is LIVE - Something’s in the Air! How public health institutions fumbled airborne transmission + what we can do to get out of the mess (ft. historian Dr Katie Randall and aerosol scientist, Dr Al Haddrell) This episode had a lot of help, thank you team 🤩
Graphic for Public Health is Dead podcast episode showing an old black and white engraving of Icarus falling on top of a background of a green and gold microscope image of H5N1
March 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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People (not me) contacted them and they changed it. At least it mentions something that would actually help instead of something that will not. I’d have said “respirators” and there’s something weird going on with “break out”vs “breakout” but here we are.
Screenshot of a VICE article that reads “There's a Massive Tuberculosis Outbreak in the US” subtitled “Breakout your masks. Again.” with an X-ray image of lungs.
February 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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"Wash your hands" does *nothing* for an airborne pathogen this piece even identifies as such. Media misinformation and public health incompetence is literally killing us. Rampant COVID is a contributing element to TB reactivation and susceptibility. Come onnn
www.vice.com/en/article/t...
Screenshot of VICE article that reads “There's a Massive Tuberculosis Outbreak in the US Wash your hands.” And an X-ray of lungs
February 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Box of Flo Masks and filters arrived for the Public Health is Dead podcast giveaway 🥳 Thanks @flomask.bsky.social! Sign up for the newsletter so you don’t miss how to enter!
Brown cardboard box full of white and grey Flo Mask respirators and filters piled on top of each other.
January 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Hand-me-down microwave died, need to get a new one and this pickup email says keep 2m from the next person for your safety. These relics of failed attempts to minimize COVID transmission are so fascinating. Same as faded old stickers about where to stand and directional arrows in grocery stores
Screenshot of part of an email: “To pickup in-store: Line up at the online order pickup counter. For your safety, make sure there's 2 metres between you and the person in front of you”
January 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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We got stickers! The latest episode dropped yesterday ICYMI 💖💚💖💚
“Public health is dead” podcast logo - purple skull on pink background- on a circular sticker. Sticker is sitting on the centre of a red flower.
December 23, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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Double rainbow on the shortest day of the year (yesterday) 🌈🌈
Double rainbow above whiteish blue side panels of a house with an orange crane for construction and trees reaching up.
December 22, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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Put your respirator on and join me on the tour! public-health-is-dead.simplecast.com/episodes/an-...
Daniella, wearing a black KN95 respirator, a denim jacket, black T-shirt and leggings and white sneakers, reflected in one of the gold-framed mirrors at the Orpheum Theatre. It has a red patterned carpet.
December 22, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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These little mushrooms under each seat on the lower level are where the fresh air supply comes in from below!
Reddish-brown pipe opening with a cap covering that looks a bit like a mushroom underneath a seat at the Orpheum
December 22, 2024 at 9:09 PM
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The Orpheum is all an elaborate set. It's got a false dome ceiling that is porous on purpose to let warm air escape to be pumped out while the system pushes cool air in from below
Colourful mural painted on a false dome ceiling with a chandelier hanging from the centre The top side of the false dome where you can see holes for the air to come through next to lights pointed through them.
December 22, 2024 at 9:06 PM
sharpflower.bsky.social
Oh. Oh no no no. Pls don’t let the worst thing happen next 😟
LinkedIn post for a new Chief Public Health officer of Canada that reads “Dr. Theresa Tam will complete her mandate as Canada's Chief Public Health Officer in June 2025. As part of the Government of Canada's open and transparent process for selecting Governor in Council appointees, applications are now being accepted to fill this position. The CPHO advises the Minister of Health, the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and the President of the Public Health Agency of Canada and works with other governments, jurisdictions, agencies, organizations, and countries on health matters. As the lead public health professional for the Government of Canada, the CPHO speaks to Canadians, health professionals, stakeholders, and the public about issues affecting the population's health. If you are a licensed medical professional with experience in public health and preventive medicine who is interested in playing a key leadership role in Canada's ability to effectively plan and respond to public health threats, outbreaks, and emergencies, we invite you to apply. Review of applications will begin on January 13, 2025. See the job poster for more information: https://ow.ly/we1L50Uq820 APPOINTMENT OPPORTUNITY: Chief Public Health Officer of Canada”
December 13, 2024 at 4:22 AM
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Omg wtf we made a chart topper!? Thank you for listening to this little show. I guess we keep it going 💯
Top Science charts on Apple Podcasts Canada showing Public Health is Dead at #1
December 9, 2024 at 3:17 AM