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PHPod sits down with Jennifer Barnes-Balenciaga to discuss her work with health policy and the ballroom community. As co-director of the Crystal LaBeija Organizing Fellowship and Commissioner for Gender Equity in New York City, Jennifer shares about her work in HIV and Mpox research and what drives her. Join the conversation and learn more about the intersection of Black and trans communities with health policy and research.

Former writing fellow Connor McCombs sits down with our new fellows, Caroline Dignard, Sean Hagan, Adna Jaganjac, and Kara Schmidt, to discuss health communication and their public health interests going into their year-long writing fellowship with Public Health Post.

In this month’s episode of PHPod, hosts Bethany Hallenborg and Connor Mccombs sit down with Abbie Green, the founder and executive director of EveryBODY Gymnastics, a gymnastics incubator focused on teaching the sport to anyone wanting to learn. Born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, EveryBODY has a mission to show that there is no wrong body, shape, size, gender, or age for gymnastics.

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PHPod hosts Bethany Hallenborg and Connor McCombs attended the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo held in Boston in November. There, they met and spoke with students, professors, and public health professionals about their public health work in action. In this episode, they spoke with Michael Curry, CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers; Nicole Huberfeld, Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law at Boston University School of Public Health; and Christina Dantam and Rhea Manocha, members of the Grassroots Maternal and Child Health Initiative at Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health. This is part two of a two-part series.

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PHPod hosts Bethany Hallenborg and Connor McCombs attended the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Expo held in Boston in November. They met people who are doing public health in action. In this episode, two public health students sat down to talk about their work, their time at APHA, and where they see public health going. Both guests, Emma Blackson and Diana Vasquez, discussed their research in K-12 school settings, their findings, and where they hope to go in the future as they continue working in public health. This is part one of a two-part podcast series.

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Kevin Outterson works to improve access to antibiotics and address drug-resistant bacteria. He is the executive director of CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) and a Boston University College of Law professor. Listen his PHPod conversation with Connor McCombs and Bethany Hallenborg to learn what’s being done on a global scale to prevent antibiotic resistance.

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Paul Lakosky of the Dave Purchase Project and the North American Syringe Exchange Network discusses his 30 years working in public health harm reduction, syringe exchange, and the importance of destigmatizing drug use with PHPod hosts Bethany Hallenborg and Connor McCombs. Join the conversation and learn what’s being done to reduce the harm of drug use as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Associate Dean Yvette Cozier talks about this year’s SPH Reads selection, “The Fortune Men,” by Nadifa Mohamed, with PHP fellows Connor McCombs and Bethany Hallenborg. Cozier explains how the book’s themes of immigration, incarceration and injustice are as relevant in the U.S. today as they were in 1950s Wales.

Andrew Stokes, an assistant professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, discusses under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths in the United States and the ensuing investigations with PHP Fellows Bethany Hallenborg and Connor McCombs. They talk about the interdisciplinary efforts of researchers and journalists to discover where and why COVID-19 deaths may be under-reported and why accurate counts matter in this first episode of PHPod’s third season.

Rubina Veerakone introduces the 2022 Public Health Post Fellows: Hannah Tremont, Abby Outterson, Bethany Hallenborg, Connor McCombs, and Barbara Espinosa. They talk about health communication and their public health interests heading into the year-long writing fellowship.

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