
The NYC Mayoral Candidates on Climate and Public Health; Treating HIV/AIDS Abroad Without USAID and PEPFAR; Your Top Three Mayoral Election Issues
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 17, 2025
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On today's show:
- Julie Tighe, president of New York League of Conservation Voters, and Keanu Arpels-Josiah, climate justice organizer with Fridays for Future NYC, talk about the mayoral candidates' positions on climate change and the environment.
- Marisa Donnelly, PhD, New York correspondent for Your Local Epidemiologist, talks about the various public health policies the mayoral candidates support, and what the mayor can do about public health more broadly.
- Jon Cohen, senior correspondent with Science, reports on how countries that suffer high rates of HIV/AIDS are coping now that USAID funding has dried up, and how local governments, especially in places like Lesotho, are attempting to figure out solutions. Plus, Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, director of ICAP at Columbia University, professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, executive vice president of Columbia Global, and lead of the New York City Preparedness & Response Institute, discusses ICAP's HIV/AIDS treatment under the Trump administration.
- As early voting in the Democratic mayoral primary is underway, listeners share their top three issues, and their top candidate or candidates.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.


