The Evidence-to-Impact Podcast

This month's episodes feature everything but the kitchen sink! We're tackling how government, primarily at the local and state levels, transitioned to remote work, unemployment and the recession, the messaging behind school closings/mask wearing, the 2020 Election, COVID-19 vaccines distribution, and everything in between. As part of our new series, The Pandemic Perspective, we spoke with Commissi...

This month's two part (!) episode features everything but the kitchen sink! We're tackling how government, primarily at the local and state levels, transitioned to remote work, unemployment and the recession, the messaging behind school closings/mask wearing, the 2020 Election, COVID-19 vaccines distribution, and everything in between. For the second episode of our new series, The Pandemic Perspec...

  The Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative Podcast is offering a new series called The Pandemic Perspective, where we examine how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and various aspects of our society, institutions, and other systems have collided, changed, and even collapsed in the last nine months. For the first episode of this series, we spoke with three experts about how the delivery of educational serv...

In this month's episode, we spoke to Alexis Santos, PhD , Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State , and David Saunders , Director of the Office of Health Equity for the Pennsylvania Department of Health, about different disparities throughout the Pennsylvania Commonwealth and how the lack of good data impacts what we understand about poverty and health inequities....

What is there left to say about the opioid crisis that has not already been said? It's claimed thousands of lives , torn apart families and communities, strained our country's already fractured healthcare system, and cost the economy billions, perhaps trillions, of dollars. If burning a path through communities for the last twenty years was not enough, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many individ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues and unemployment benefits for many Americans decrease significantly at the end of July, many Americans will be unable to pay rents and mortgages and may face eviction. Given the severity of this particular crisis, July's episode focuses on multiple issues related to housing in America, like the lack of affordable housing and housing as a means to improve overall...

For this month's episode, we spoke to Lisa Davis , Director of the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health and Ann Tickamyer, PhD , Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography at Penn State , about the challenges and opportunities of healthcare in rural communities. Pennsylvania is considered one of the most rural states in the nation, and is anchored by Pittsburgh in the southwestern and Phil...

For this month’s episode, we spoke to Penn State’s  Marty Sliwinski , PhD, Director of the  Center for Healthy Aging and Professor of  Human Development and Family Studies , and Stephanie Cole, Director of Special Projects and Executive Assistant at the Office of the Secretary at  Pennsylvania Department of Aging , about challenges and opportunities related to aging. This episode was recorded in F...

This week, we spoke to two experts on issue about criminal sentencing guidelines. Sentencing guidelines are a set of standards that are generally put in place to establish rational and consistent sentencing practices within a particular jurisdiction. Guests: Jeff Ulmer is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Penn State and the Program Head of the Criminal Justice Policy and Administration M...

Join us each month as we explore issues affecting our families and communities.

Join us each month as we explore issues affecting our families and communities.