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You Made It Out Of Childhood Thanks To Public Health

Parents today do not expect to outlive their children – a modern phenomenon borne from years of deliberate science and public health efforts. Perri Klass, professor of journalism and pediatrics at New York University, joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the hard-fought battle against infant and child mortality. Her new book is “A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future.”