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736 - World Water Day: How Water Can Be a Powerful Force to Bring People Together
Season 9 Episode 736
More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and more than 3 billion are living without safe sanitation systems. For World Water Da…
2 years, 6 months ago
735 - De-medicalizing Menopause
Season 9 Episode 735
Menopause: inevitable, stigmatized, mysterious, and bringing a broad range of symptoms and experiences. Dr. Martha Hickey, a menopause researcher at …
2 years, 6 months ago
734 - How Hospital Infection Control Has Changed Since COVID
Season 9 Episode 734
Four years after the early days of the pandemic, how are hospitals thinking about infection control, how much has changed, and to what degree have th…
2 years, 6 months ago
733 - Projections of Excess Deaths in Gaza Over the Next Six Months
Season 9 Episode 733
A new report models projections of the human costs of conflict in Gaza over the next six months across several scenarios. Paul Spiegel, director of t…
2 years, 6 months ago
BONUS - How "Illiberal" Is Public Health?
Season 9
In his new book Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time, Dean Sandro Galea of the Boston University School of Public Health chal…
2 years, 6 months ago
732 - Bringing Back Condoms to Prevent HIV
Season 9 Episode 732
Condoms were once an essential part of the public health toolkit to fight HIV and STIs. But over the last decade, and coinciding with the rise of med…
2 years, 6 months ago
731 - A Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation
Season 9 Episode 731
Health misinformation is rampant—online and through rumors—but there are steps people can take to help stamp them out. Aishwarya Nagar and Tara Kirk …
2 years, 6 months ago
730 - Women’s History Month: A Conversation With Sue Baker, the “Mother of Injury Prevention”
Season 9 Episode 730
When Sue Baker started her research career in the 1960s, there was no field devoted to injury prevention despite accidents being a leading cause of d…
2 years, 6 months ago
BONUS - COVID-19 Updated: The CDC’s New Isolation Guidelines, Vaccines For People Over 65, and New Variants
Season 9
The CDC announced new isolation guidelines last week that bring COVID-19 in line with recommendations for other viral respiratory diseases. Virologis…
2 years, 7 months ago
729 - Hidden Food Insecurity: The Adolescents Who Aren’t Getting Enough to Eat
Season 9 Episode 729
Food insecurity uniquely impacts youth ages 14-18 but it’s largely a hidden problem. Kristen Mmari, an adolescent health researcher at Johns Hopkins,…
2 years, 7 months ago