The Last Best Chance with Prof Jisung Park
Our health is inevitably tied to the health of our planet. At COP26, the world’s leaders tried to save it—but did they do enough? We speak to Prof. Jisung Park, an environmental economist, about how climate change is shaping inequality, and about what we hoped for and what we got from COP26. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.
16 Nov 202150min
The Contagion Next Time with Prof Sandro Galea
Were we set up to fail? And how does our failure affect the most vulnerable people in society? Abdul reflects on the nature of prevention itself. He speaks with Prof. Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health and author of the new book “The Contagion Next Time.” For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.
9 Nov 202135min
Be-JUULed with Lauren Etter
Decades of public health efforts turned America’s young people against smoking. And then JUUL made it cool again. Abdul speaks with Lauren Etter, author of “The Devil’s Playbook,” about how a tool designed to help people quit hooked a whole new generation to nicotine. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.
2 Nov 202141min
Talking Public Health LIVE from Denver with Dr. John Douglas and Anat Shenker-Osorio
Coming to you LIVE from the American Public Health Association’s annual conference in Denver, Colorado, we’re talking about how even talk about public health. We’ll talk to Dr. John Douglas, Director of Colorado’s largest health department about what he’s learned about how we talk about public health in a polarized moment and how it’s shaped his work and the future of his health department. Then we speak with messaging guru Anat Shenker-Osorio about what’s working—and what’s not—in messaging around masks and vaccines. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.
26 Okt 20211h 2min
Is life about to get CRISPR? with Carl Zimmer
CRISPR is one of those bio-scientific breakthroughs that has the potential to change society. Abdul talks about what makes CRISPR so important and speaks with Carl Zimmer, science journalist at the New York Times, about how this discovery is already changing society and about his new book “Life’s Edge: The Search for What it Means to Be Alive.” For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.
19 Okt 202133min
Health in Concrete with Katrina Forrest & Chrissie Juliano
Densely-populated with lots of turn-over, cities are perhaps the worst place to be in a pandemic. And yet in the latter half of the COVID-19 pandemic, people living in cities have been safer than their rural and suburban counterparts. Abdul explores why cities matter when it comes to public health. Then he speaks with Katrina Forrest, co-Executive Director of the CityHealth initiative and Chrissie Juliano, Executive Director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, to discuss the threats and opportunities facing health in cities. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.
12 Okt 202129min
Getting PrEP’d with James Krellenstein
PrEP — or “pre-exposure prophylaxis” — has been a game changer in HIV prevention, that is, for people who can access it. But Big Pharma has, once again, put its profits over its patients. Abdul talks about the latest in HIV prevention and speaks with James Krellenstein an AIDS activist and co-founder of PrEP4All. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.
5 Okt 202136min
Texas v. Roe with Alexis McGill Johnson
Abortion bans don’t stop abortions, they just make them less safe. Not only does Texas’s Draconian new abortion ban violate the reproductive rights of millions of people in Texas, it empowers abortion bounty hunters to do what government should not. Abdul talks about the dangerous precedent Texas’s law sets, and speaks with Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood about what comes next. Take Crooked's listener survey: crooked.com/survey For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/americadissected.
28 Sep 202129min
