MSG for You and Me with Yasmin Tayag
Food is life. But just like lives, some foods are valued more than others — some are told they don’t belong. So what happens when the entire medical establishment becomes a part of that exclusion? Tha...
30 Touko 202341min
Break the Wheel with Attorney General Keith Ellison
The murder of George Floyd three years ago set off an uprising at the very core of who we are as a country over the treatment of Black folks, particularly at the hands of the police. Abdul reflects on...
23 Touko 20231h 5min
Mail Order Meds with Chris Hamby
Treatment-specific online companies have exploded since the pandemic. But the ethics are… complicated. What happens when you can order a little understood treatments in the mail? What happens when tho...
16 Touko 202347min
Menopaused with Susan Dominus
Menopause is the most ubiquitous experience nobody talks about. Pain, hot flashes, mental clouding — they’re a constellation of symptoms that women are routinely told are “normal.” Abdul reflects on t...
9 Touko 202356min
Polling Public Health with Dr. Brian Castrucci
There are two central challenges to public communication: knowing how you're perceived and knowing who you’re not hearing back from. We don’t do either well in public health. Abdul reflects on these c...
2 Touko 202354min
We Need More Vaccines, Actually with Martha Rebour
It’s World Immunization Week! Aside from basic plumbing, no public health intervention has saved more lives than vaccines. But misinformation, corporatism, and disinvestment are keeping them from thos...
25 Huhti 202343min
Miffed about Mifepristone with Dr. Kristyn Brandi
Access to the abortion medication mifepristone is in question after a dubious ruling from an ideological judge in Texas. Abdul lays out the dangerous implications of the ruling. Then he talks to Ob/Gy...
18 Huhti 202349min
The $hittiest Episode with Rose George
“Public health is a load of crap!” Not quite. More like, “Public health is about a load of crap!” Abdul talks about how separating the water we crap in from the water we drink is literally the foundat...
11 Huhti 202359min
