New Episode of Ms.’s On the Issues Podcast: Fierce Feminist Resistance: The Fight to Save Public Health (with Dr. Anthony Fauci)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | JANUARY 9, 2025

On the Issues with Michele Goodwin is a popular, issues and policy-focused podcast featuring feminist analysis, insightful conversations and exciting guests. This is the first podcast from Ms. magazine, a legacy feminist publication. In each episode, host Dr. Michele Goodwin and special guests will tackle the most compelling issues of our times, centering feminist concerns about rebuilding our nation and advancing the promise of equality. 

A new episode—Fierce Feminist Resistance: The Fight to Save Public Health (with Dr. Anthony Fauci)—is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and MsMagazine.com.

In this episode, Dr. Goodwin is joined by public health leader Dr. Anthony Fauci to discuss some of the most important issues currently confronting the health of our nation and the world—from vaccine skepticism, COVID denialism, and health misinformation and disinformation to the rising tide of violence aimed at medical providers. Dr. Fauci expresses his hope for the future, offers insights on the pushback against vaccines, and speaks candidly about how his life changed after being in the public spotlight at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the toll it took on him and his family.

A full transcript of the episode may be found here, as well as a few excerpts below:

“The thing that is even more grating about it, Michele, is that the things that they’re accusing you of are completely made up, with no foundation whatsoever in reality, and when you have social media that continues to repeat these untruths, over and over again.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci

“I’m at least cautiously optimistic that the better angels in all of us, even people who you might perceive as those who are attacking you… we’re so much more alike than we are different.” — Dr. Anthony Fauci

Meet the Host of On the Issues: Dr. Michele Goodwin is a prolific thought leader on matters of constitutional law and health policy. In addition to Ms. magazine, Dr. Goodwin’s commentary can be read in The Atlantic, The New York Times, the Nation, CNN and The L.A. Times, among others. She holds the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill chair in constitutional law and global health policy at Georgetown Law School and serves as the co-faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. She is the executive producer of Ms. Studios.

About Ms. Magazine: Co-founded by Gloria Steinem in 1972 and published by the Feminist Majority Foundation since 2001, Ms. magazine has been a trusted, popular source for feminist news and information in print and online for nearly 50 years. Ms.’s time-honored traditions of an emphasis on in-depth investigative reporting and feminist political analysis have never been more relevant, bringing a new generation of writers and readers together to share news, analysis, research and strategies for fighting back and moving forward, for shaping the future.