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371 - Appreciation and Hostility: Working With COVID-19 Patients
Season 4 Episode 371
For a year and a half, Johns Hopkins infectious disease doctor Kelly Gebo has been working with people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Gebo an…
5 years ago
370 - VoteER: Helping Patients and Providers Vote Like Their Health Depends On It
Season 4 Episode 370
There are over 50 million Americans who are eligible to vote but are not registered. VoteEr is an organization at the intersection of health and voti…
5 years ago
369 - How 9-11 and Anthrax Changed Public Health
Season 4 Episode 369
In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the Anthrax events in the weeks that followed, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks wit…
5 years ago
368 - COVID-19 and Protecting Our Kids
Season 4 Episode 368
Stephanie Desmon talks to Dr. Stephen Patrick, a pediatrician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee, about why the focus of COVID-19 r…
5 years ago
Bonus - Suicide Prevention and Muslim Americans
Season 4
This year, National Suicide Prevention Week coincides with the 20th anniversary of 9-11. Amelia Noor-Oshiro, a Hopkins PhD candidate, is conducting r…
5 years ago
367 - HIV Among Women in Abusive Relationships
Season 4 Episode 367
Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health Tiara Willie studies the HIV epidemic among Black women in the American South, particularly among th…
5 years ago
366 - The Microbiome Episode
Season 4 Episode 366
What is a microbiome? Are they helpful or are they harmful? Do they cause disease or can they cure disease? And what does diet soda have to do with t…
5 years, 1 month ago
365 - The Politicization of COVID-19 Vaccines
Season 4 Episode 365
Research shows that conservatives are significantly less likely to get a COVID vaccine than liberals. Timothy Callaghan of Texas A&M’s school of publ…
5 years, 1 month ago
364 - The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
Season 4 Episode 364
This week, Stephanie Desmon and Josh Sharfstein are teaming up to talk to experts about COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Today, they look through the ethic…
5 years, 1 month ago
BONUS - COVID and Extended Unemployment Benefits
Season 4
As pandemic-related, federal unemployment insurance is set to expire, Stephanie Desmon talks to Mallika Thomas, PhD, of Brookings Institution about i…
5 years, 1 month ago