Public Health Perspectives

Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Peter Watts, an elections law attorney in Oregon, about the importance of using plain language when sharing information with public audiences. As a city attorney who often writes ballot titles for taxes and levies in state and local elections, Peter has learned that using legalese and technical j...

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Louise Hyneman, a St. Louis University MPH student, discusses her public health journey. Her experiences and interests surround working with food insecurity, like her internship with the St. Louis Area Food Bank. Louise also has an interest in economic development as a potential way to work towards sustainable changes in health outcomes.

In the fifth episode of Views from the Front Porch, Dr. Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Cindy Perry, the Elizabeth N. Gray Distinguished Professor and an Associate Professor at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon. Cindy has blended her personal and professional interests to weave together an extensive line of community-based participatory research with...

Dr. Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Dr. Jenine K. Harris, author of a new statistics book for social scientists called Statistics with R: Solving Problems Using Real-World Data.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, host Camelia Singletary speaks with Jade Conway, an MPH student at St. Louis University. Jade's work primarily focuses on maternal and child health, on both a domestic and global scale. Her most recent public health experience took her to Mpunde, Uganda. As a part of a project entitled Empower Through Health, she and her colleagues have had the opport...

In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with Dr. Michael Fraser, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), about articles published in the May/June 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. This issue focuses on the opioid epidemic.

In this episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Dr. Christiaan Abildso talks with Dr. Noah Lenstra, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Noah approaches rural physical activity using his expertise in library sciences and his personal upbringing in a town of about 3,000 people in northwestern Illinoi...

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Dr. Mehrete Girmay discusses some of her current work surrounding loneliness and isolation. Dr. Girmay is currently a Public Health Analyst for the Health Resources and Services Administration in the Office of Health Equity. As an advocate for health equity and social justice, her research has been focused on investigating social determinants of healt...

Drs. John Marr and Lloyd Novick continue their conversation on COVID-19, this time discussing serological testing for COVID-19 virus as a component of a smarter public health strategy, a strategy that has been suggested by Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York. As Dr. Novick notes in the following podcast, the New York State Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory has excellent past experience with perform...

In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with Colleen Barbero, Lindsay Cloud, and Lance Gable about Advancing Legal Epidemiology, a new supplement published March 2020 in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Dr. Lloyd Novick, Editori-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and Dr. John Marr, American epidemiologist, discuss flattening the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and resource capacity of the American health care system.

Dr. Lloyd Novick, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and Dr. John Marr, American physician, epidemiologist, and infectious disease outbreak expert, weigh in with where things might be headed next with coronavirus in the United States.

Dr. JP Leider, Dr. Betty Bekemeier, and Mr. Greg Whitman discuss the importance of standardization of financial information systems for public health practice and policy, particularly in the current COVID-19 crisis.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Lindsay Cloud and Lance Gable discuss legal epidemiology. Lindsay Cloud is the director of the Policy Surveillance Program at the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Lance Gable is an associate professor of law at Wayne State University and an expert on public health law and bioethics. Both Lindsay...

Dr. Shaun Owens at the University of South Carolina's College of Social Work discusses the various innovative technologies he's using at the Healthy Aging Research and Technology (HART) Lab to help cancer patients make more informed decisions about screenings, biopsies, treatment, and survivorship.

Dr. Shaun Owens at the University of South Carolina's College of Social Work discusses the work he is doing at the Healthy Aging Research and Technology (HART) Lab to help older adults make informed health decisions about aging in place.

In the third episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Jeff Whitfield, epidemiologist with the Physical Activity and Health Branch at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about walking, physical activity, and the built environment in rural America.

Public Health Perspectives host Camelia Singeltary revisits with Episode 5 guest LaTonya Bynum to get an update on her work.

Dr. Gulzar Shah and Valerie Rogers discuss Smart Health Communities (SHCs) and their part in the move toward local and some state governmental systems to modernize and use innovation to support overarching health and wellbeing goals.

Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner of Health for the Vermont Department of Health, discusses a new case study published in the Jan 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which chronicles the events of a near miss mass school shooting that happened in Vermont in 2018.

In the second episode of Views from the Front Porch, my guest is Dr. Michael B. Edwards, Associate Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at North Carolina State University. Mike’s research is guided by the idea that developing and managing socially responsible sport and recreational facilities, programs, services, and events will encourage more active lifestyles,...

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, authors Elena Grossman and Emily York discuss their article, "Minigrants to Local Health Departments: An Opportunity to Promote Climate Change Preparedness," published in the March/April 2019 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

In this episode of the editor’s podcast, Dr. Justin Moore, Associate Editor, discusses articles that appear in the November/December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. This issue's primary focus is on tobacco, but there are also a number of interesting articles that focus on social determinants of health.

Dr. Christiaan Abildso, host of Views from the Porch: Rural Physical Activity, speaks with Dr. M. Renee Umstattd Meyer about the creative solutions at the heart of rural communities.

Today Justin Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Randy Schwartz about the importance of implementation science to public health.