People > Pathology with Prof. Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Too often, we focus on the disease that affect people rather than the people those diseases are affecting. That failure to pay attention to people lets the disease take more than their health, it lets...
22 Helmi 202242min
The Sum of Us are Sick with Heather McGhee
Public health requires us to believe that there is “a public” above and beyond ourselves as individuals. But who belongs to that public may matter even more for what we’re willing to do provide that p...
15 Helmi 202235min
The Black Maternal Health Caucus with Rep. Lauren Underwood
One of the most galling examples of inequity in America continues to be the stunningly high rate at which Black mothers die in pregnancy and childbirth and Black babies die before during their first y...
8 Helmi 202238min
The Court of Public Vaccination w/ Prof. Melissa Murray
Your right to swing your first ends where my face starts. That principle captures the limits of our freedoms in this country. And the Supreme Court has long held the precedent that people could be req...
1 Helmi 202238min
A different kind of public option?
President Biden ran on the idea of offering Americans a “public option” for health insurance — a government managed healthcare plan that would operate in parallel to private insurance. But what if we ...
25 Tammi 202232min
CDC something wrong here?
The CDC is the nation–perhaps the world’s–most preeminent public health agency. But it’s taken quite the beating throughout this pandemic. From flawed tests to unclear guidance to political tampering,...
18 Tammi 202242min
You’ve Got Mail with Guest Host Tre’vell Anderson
Abdul and Guest Host Tre’vell Anderson answer everything you wanted to know (and maybe didn’t know you wanted to know) about public health, COVID-19, and the year ahead.For a transcript of this episod...
4 Tammi 202245min
