America’s First Paramedics with Kevin Hazzard
Did you know that modern emergency medical services owe their origins to an all-Black paramedic team in Pittsburgh in the ‘60s? Author and former paramedic Kevin Hazzard tells the story in his new boo...
29 Nov 202245min
Public Health on the Ballot with Dr. Brian Castrucci
Public Health was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections — and public health won! Abdul reflects on the politics of public health. He sits down with de Beaumont Foundation President & CEO and for...
22 Nov 202245min
A Tripledemic? with Dr. Katelyn Jetelina
RSV! Flu! COVID! It’s fall, and respiratory illnesses are raging. RSV, in particular, is filling up pediatric hospitals as it infects our society’s youngest and most vulnerable. Abdul dissects why we’...
15 Nov 202255min
From the Outside In with Jane Coaston
America Dissected comes to you LIVE from Boston at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Abdul reflects on what brought him to public health. Then he sits down with Jane Coaston, host...
8 Nov 20221h 11min
What the Fact with Dr. Seema Yasmin
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 wasn’t the only thing going viral. In fact, mis- and disinformation ultimately framed so much of society’s response to the virus itself. In her new book, “...
1 Nov 202254min
Dissecting Dr. Oz
Nobody quite represents the seedy underbelly of American medicine like Dr. Oz. His career is a living description of what happens when ego and greed get an “MD,” and then use it to pump quack treatmen...
25 Okt 202256min
Adam Ruins Public Health with Adam Conover
So much of public health revolves around collective action — that is government working on our behalf to do things like fund biomedical research, regulate polluting factories, or clean our water. But ...
18 Okt 202250min
Racism is a Public Health Issue with Dr. Matías Valenzuela
Following the murder of George Floyd in the context of the pandemic, communities across the country rushed to recognize the public health scourge of racism — a clear, but long ignored public health cr...
11 Okt 202252min
