The HPP Podcast

“I also think together we can build resiliency through education and prevention to address the opioid fentanylepidemic at its root cause.” – Neeraj Wadhwa The HPP Podcast observes National SubstanceAbuse Prevention Month! On this episode of the HPP Podcast, Neeraj Wadhwa shares the development and implementation of a fentanyl overdose harm reduction intervention designed for adolescent students in...

“Opioid misuse is a significant public health challenge, particularly for adolescents and young adults. We know that substance misuse in general often begins before the age of 18, and for people who experience higher adversity, like mental health challenges, isolation, unmet basic needs, lack of resources, things like that, the risk remains high through young adulthood. So early intervention is ke...

“We're trying to find hard answers to hard questions, and when we find those hard answers, the only thing that we will find is bigger, harder questions, and we shouldn't be threatened by that. That should be the driving engine of the things that we do for our community and for the research that we love so much.” – Julian Rodriguez The HPP Podcast celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month! In this...

"For those of us in health and medicine and related fields that were really focused on promoting HIV prevention through PrEP, one of the ways that we realized that where we needed to invest was around health communication, increasing awareness that there was a new strategy available, demystifying what it was and what it wasn't.” – Pedro A. Serrano This episode of The HPP Podcast features...

“We found that there was kind of a nuanced perspective on statistics.” – Susan Racine Passmore This August, The HPP Podcast celebrates National Immunization Awareness Month! Susan Racine Passmore joins The HPP Podcast to share her research team’s work to advance vaccine uptake among pediatric populations in rural Wisconsin. The author provides the foundational background for the work, discusses ho...

“I think our biggest hope, I know in writing this paper, was that people will understand that accessibility is more than a compliance issue. It's more than checklist at the end of your training development; that this is a human rights issue, this is the civil rights issue, and we need a mindset shift from compliance and from making individual accommodations and feeling like almost like, oh, we...

“Pay attention to your community. Always look at them asyour big boss. You've got to make sure that they understand what it is you're trying to communicate, and ultimately, they're the ones you are serving.” Adriane K. Griffen The HPP Podcast continues its celebration of DisabilityPride Month! In this episode, Dr. Adriane K. Griffen shares updates on her Inclusion Wheel of Factors and...

“When our patients delay getting care, it can really lead to worse health outcomes down the line, so it has had a myriad of very positive impacts on many different veterans' lives.” – Sylvia V. Haigh The HPP Podcasts celebrates Pride Month with Syliva V. Haigh. In this episode, Sylvia shares how the Pride In All Who Served (PRIDE) was implemented and scaled up to serve 70 Veterans Administrati...

“What we're experiencing is not naturally occurring. It is produced. And if it is produced, it can be interrupted. And that, I think, requires us to just be honest about what is producing them.” – Carrie Rosario The HPP Podcasts celebrates the 2025 Sarah Mazelis Paper of the Year award winner, Dr. Carrie Rosario! In this episode, Dr. Rosario sits down with Dr. Shanaé Burch to discuss the conte...

Everyone has a role to play in helping deliver formal or informal concussion education and influence athletes' willingness to report a concussion.” Julia D. Drattell The HPP Podcast observes National Concussion Awareness Day! On this episode of The HPP Podcast, Julia D. Drattellshares information about the current landscape of concussion education as discussed in the article, “Concussion as a...

“We try to frame our results in a way that shows youth cannot only identify the things that are happening in their lives, but they also have the power and knowledge, and they have the tools within them to be able to start addressing these issues.” In this episode, Saharra L. Dixon the use of photovoice andcommunity mapping to examine structural violence’s impact on historically excluded youth’s li...

“As a creator myself, I experience a lot of criticism from people about how academics and physicians shouldn't be on socialmedia. I think the takeaway from this is that we should be on social media to balance some of this information and to provide really good evidence-based information for people.” – Emily J. Pfender Dr. Emily J. Pfender joins The HPP Podcast in observance of Women’s History...

“It's all about paying it forward. It's about recognizing the mentors I had and now the mentorship that I'm providingto my students. They are the next generation of health educators, right? So, I want to make sure that they're getting the guidance that I received but amplified.” - Alvin Tran On this episode of The HPP Podcast, Dr. Alvin Tran shares his reflections on his experience...

“The reality is that there are power differentials between a student, a junior scholar and a full professor, or between a medical assistant, a patient, and a physician. But recognizing those power dynamics, if you are in a position of power, really using your privilege, your position as a gatekeeper to speak up and intervene or to give platform to folks that may have less access to power to interv...

“Our bodies are capable of restoringthemselves if given the right information and putting the right things in it. There's more than one way to do it.” -Tia Jeffery The HPP Podcast celebrates Black History Month! Listen to Tia Jeffery, Amy Schweitzer, and Carolyn Miller discuss theirnutrition program, Black Wellness Matters-Nutrition Series, on a lighthearted episode of The HPP Podcast. They di...

“If we want to reach those societies or reach those populations, we definitely need to have others’ blended approach of having both the clinic and the community organizations working together.” This episode kicks off Season 5 of the HPP Podcast and showcases the work of Dr. Sujha Subramanian, author of “ Role of Community–Clinical Partnerships to Promote CancerScreening: Lessons Learned From the N...

“Responsible gun ownership as a phrase is not just one thing; it's many, and it doesn't just lead to one behavior; it potentially leads to many.” -Nicholas R. Buttrick The HPP Podcast welcomes Tara D. Warner and Nicholas R. Buttrick as they discuss their research on how firearm owners’ identities influence their perceptions and actions related to responsible firearm storage. They share the...

“We all have a role in this, and I think if we're going to takethe ending the HIV epidemic conversation more seriously, we need to have a pretty frank conversation about, you know, expanding roles and not relying so heavily on one discipline to resolve these issues. Dental visits are a missed opportunity. They're an untapped setting. There's missed opportunities and we should be thinki...

“There is a pathway to recovery. There’s a pathway forward for everybody.” Ashley F. Railey On this episode of The HPP Podcast, Ashley F. Railey discusses a social marketing campaign designed to address stigma regarding substance use in Indiana. She shares the context for the study and offers insights into the design, acceptability, and utility of the campaign. Additionally, shares the role of the...

“I think one really important thing thatdrives my work is that it's really critical that we try to scale up our evidence-based programs to reach larger numbers and to try to change organizational practices. It's probably the only way we're going to get public health or population-level change.” Sara Wilcox On this episode of The HPP Podcast, Sara Wilcox shares information about the dev...

“People were able to be themselves. So that was like my biggest thing.” Liane Khoury The HPP Podcast celebrates Sexual Health Awareness Month! On this episode of The HPP Podcast, Liane Khoury shares information about a program designed to build community and address food insecurity among LGBTQIA+ newcomers to Nova Scotia in the article “East Coast Kitchen Party: A Ceilidh-Inspired Program to Reduc...

“Everyone has a role to play in helping deliver formal or informal concussion education and influence athletes'willingness to report a concussion.” Julia D. Drattell The HPP Podcast observes National Concussion Awareness Day! On this episode of The HPP Podcast, Julia D. Drattellshares information about the current landscape of concussion education as discussed in the article, “Concussion as a...

“What I think really shines through is how the family context and the cultural context and the political context influenceboth mental and sexual health experience for Latina adolescents, particularly the role of shame and stigma and how that played a part in gaining access to healthcare or being able to talk openly about these sensitive or potentiallysensitive topics. So, we hope that the zines th...

“Having a primary care practitioner is pretty consistently one of the main facilitators for seeking preventive care. When you look at the literature on what are the best strategies that we can do to get people to get immunized, get regular screenings, recommendations from a family practitioner or primary care practitioners are consistently one of the reliable ways to get people to buy into, to sta...

“We really need to provide support to our health care providers, our pediatricians, and try to identify ways that we can help them effectively communicate with parents and patients, and motivational interviewing seems to be a really great avenue for that. And so, trying to figure out how do we most effectively train healthcare providers and using thebest motivational interviewing techniques to com...