Matthew Kreuter, Kahn Family Professor of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis and founder of the Health Communication Research Laboratory, shares about his research on effective public health messaging to address health inequities.
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Cheryl Clark, executive director and senior vice president of the Institute of Health Equity Research, Evaluation, and Policy at the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, shares about her work and how public health research can support equity-based program design.
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PHPod sits down with new fellows, Lia Musumeci, Heather Sherr, Jude Sleiman, Abby Varker, and Dani Weissert, to discuss health communications and their public health interests going into their year-long fellowships with PHP.
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Melody S. Goodman, senior executive vice dean and professor of biostatistics at New York University School of Global Public Health, speaks about her work and the importance of narrative, data-driven storytelling.
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Kimber King, program assistant for the Massachusetts Overdose Prevention Helpline, shares about her experiences and efforts to center both harm reduction and compassionate understanding in her work.
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Anastasia Kidd, minister, lecturer, author, and activist, discusses her new book, Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation, and the health effects of weight stigma in medicalized spaces and research.
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Sukhi Samra, director of the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration and Mayors for Guaranteed Income, discusses how the programs started and their response since, as well as how policymakers can construct initiatives that better fit the needs of communities.
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PHPod sat down with Leah Watson, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Racial Justice Program, to discuss censorship in the classroom.
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PHPod sat down with Christina Dobbs, an assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, to discuss the current onslaught of book bans and challenges in classrooms across the country.
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Khadijah Booth Watkins, associate director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Residency Training Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate director of the Clay Center for Young Healthy Minds, discusses some of the greatest threats to adolescent mental health and how we can build resilience among this population.
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