1050 - A Doctor Uses Social Media to Advocate for Children in Immigration Detention

About this episode: Dr. Anita K. Patel emerged as a prominent online educator during the pandemic. Today, she's leveraging social media to advocate for the humane treatment of children in ICE detention. In this episode: her work to help detained children obtain much-needed medical attention and her advice for doctors on using social media to make a wider impact. Guest: Dr. Anita K. Patel is an attending physician at Children's National Medical Center and associate professor of pediatrics at George Washington University School of Medicine. Host: Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA , is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast , an editor for Expert Insights , and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Show links and related content: The Children of Dilley —ProPublica Pediatricians send letter to DHS demanding release of children in ICE detention —Texas Public Radio Medical Care in Immigration Detention —Public Health On Call (October 2025) How Social Media is Changing the Way We Talk About Health —Public Health On Call (March 2026) Transcript information: Looking for episode transcripts? Open our podcast on the Apple Podcasts app (desktop or mobile) or the Spotify mobile app to access an auto-generated transcript of any episode. Closed captioning is also available for every episode on our YouTube channel. Contact us: Have a question about something you heard? Looking for a transcript? Want to suggest a topic or guest? Contact us via email or visit our website .

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1050 - A Doctor Uses Social Media to Advocate for Children in Immigration Detention is an episode from Public Health On Call by The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

This episode is 20:20 long.

This episode was published on May 13, 2026.

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