Indiana Capital Chronicle Journalist Michael Leppert Talks about 2022 American Health Rankings on Civic Conversations

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This month Civic Conversations welcomed Michael Lippert, a journalist with the Indiana Capital Chronicle, to discuss the 2022 American Health Rankings Report.  In the podcast, Leppert talks to our host, Jim Allison, about where Indiana stands regarding public health in the United States. Overall, Indiana ranks 35th among all fifty-two states but ranks 45th in the nation for public health.  In Indiana, we spend approximately $14 per person on public health. Leppert talks about how this ranking comes from a protracted line of policy failures and lack of long-term commitment to the public health of Indiana citizens, saying that failure in Indiana’s public health system is “not a weather event, but a climate event.”