N.A.H. Addresses COVID-19 Inequities With Community-Driven Solutions

WUNC | By Stacia Brown,

Anita Rao

Published August 6, 2020 at 11:47 AM EDT

Public health expert Bahby Banks' will soon launch a new campaign to reduce the risk of COVID-19 in Black and brown communities.

Public health expert Bahby Banks has been hearing about COVID-19 since before the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic back in March.

Host Anita Rao talks to Dr. Bahby Banks about her new culturally competent public health information campaign, 'Not A Host.'

As a former epidemiologist, she has been talking to friends in the field and keeping up with reports on the virus’s spread. She knew right away that the country’s most marginalized communities would be most susceptible to contracting the novel coronavirus, and data that has emerged in the months since has borne that out.

Soon, she will launch Not A Host (N.A.H.), a new public health information campaign to raise awareness about community spread and risk reduction for Black and brown communities. Host Anita Rao talks to Banks about her new project.

Stacia Brown

Stacia Brown comes to WUNC from Washington, DC, where she was a producer for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A. She’s the creator and host of two podcasts, The Rise of Charm City and Hope Chest. Her audio projects have been featured on Scene on Radio, a podcast of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; BBC 4’s Short Cuts; and American Public Radio’s Terrible, Thanks for Asking.

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Anita Rao

Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.

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