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634 - Vital Talks: What if Public Health Fueled Social Reform Movements
Season 8 Episode 634
Public health has a long history of activism in social movements and new overlaps took hold in the last few years with COVID-19 and social unrest. In…
3 years, 2 months ago
633 - The Far-Reaching Impacts of Drug Shortages Affecting Cancer Treatments
Season 8 Episode 633
Shortages of lifesaving drugs—the result of failures at every step of complex supply chains—have far-reaching impacts on patients, providers, and the…
3 years, 3 months ago
632 - Investigating the Why of Suicide: Maryland’s New Suicide Fatality Review Committee
Season 8 Episode 632
A new committee in Maryland is charged with a big undertaking: investigating deaths by suicide to help inform prevention efforts. Mental health exper…
3 years, 3 months ago
631 - Vital Talks: How Donor Dynamics are Shaping Public Health
Season 8 Episode 631
Philanthropy is a critical part of global public health but funding cycles, donor preferences, and other systems can fundamentally impact organizatio…
3 years, 3 months ago
630 - Why Are Some Humans’ Scents More Preferable to Mosquitoes?
Season 8 Episode 630
Mosquitoes are excellent hunters. Anopheles gambiae—the mosquito in sub-Saharan Africa that spreads malaria—in particular loves to feast on humans an…
3 years, 3 months ago
629 - Alcohol Use as a Risk Factor for Gun Violence
Season 8 Episode 629
Alcohol plays an outsize role in gun deaths and a new study finds that alcohol misuse can be a better predictor of future violence than any other ris…
3 years, 3 months ago
628 - Scientists in Exile: When Researchers and Clinicians are Forced to Flee
Season 8 Episode 628
Dr. Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw was a research scientist at Myanmar’s ministry of health before she emigrated to teach global health at Hong Kong University. …
3 years, 3 months ago
627 - Workplace Mental Health and Well-being
Season 8 Episode 627
Workplace wellness goes beyond safe offices to consider how employees can live healthy and productive lives at home while being focused on work at wo…
3 years, 3 months ago
EP 626 - Katelyn Jetelina, “Your Local Epidemiologist,” on The Benefits and Harms of Active Assailant Drills and the Widespread Impacts of Mass Shootings
Season 8 Episode 626
Active shooter and lockdown drills are part of a broader spectrum of emergency preparedness but there are differing levels of effectiveness and risks…
3 years, 3 months ago
625 - Tackling Housing Injustice—and Improving Childhood Asthma
Season 8 Episode 625
Redlining and other discriminatory practices represent structural racism in housing. Efforts to counter the legacy of this injustice include voucher …
3 years, 3 months ago