American Journal of Public Health Podcast

Alfredo Morabia and Prof. Vickie Mays (UCLA) from AJPH interview Anna K. Hing (University of Minnesota), Jennifer L. Pomeranz (New York University), and Marian Moser Jones (Ohio State University) to discuss whether voting rights are a political determinant of health. Key discussion points include: What have been the political consequences of the US Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby County v...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu, and Tianchu Lyu review highlights of the April to June 2024 Issues and Supplements. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Stella S. Yi, Associate Professor from the Department of Population Health, New York University.

AJPH Editors Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia interview Tamara Rushovich (Harvard), lead author of "US Voting Rights Act Impact on Black and Black vs. White Infant Death Rates in Jim Crow States, 1959–1980 and 2017–2021" (Am J Public Health. 2024; 114(3): 300–308), and Jesse H. Rhodes (UMass Amherst). We discuss the definition of "Jim Crow Laws" and states, the public health effects of the 1965 Vot...

Welcome to "Forging Radical Hope," a special podcast series from the American Journal of Public Health 2024 Student Think Tank. In our first episode, we explore the future of public health with insightful pitches from our esteemed guests. Part 2 features Marcus Weinman, a PhD Candidate at the University of Vermont, who shares his visionary ideas on the future of pandemic preparedness across states...

Welcome to "Forging Radical Hope," a special podcast series from the American Journal of Public Health 2024 Student Think Tank. In our first episode, we explore the future of public health with insightful pitches from our esteemed guests. Part 1 features Kathleen Patti, an MPH student at the University of North Florida, who shares her visionary ideas on the future of sexual health education. Kathl...

Participant: Michael McGinnis, Executive Director at National Academy of Medicine Hosts: Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia (AJPH) This podcast addresses critical questions such as: How was public health before 1988 and what triggered the writing of the report? How important was the ongoing AIDS pandemic in this process? Is the report a milestone, marking a shift in US public health? Can we compare t...

This month AJPH Editors Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia interview Julie Ward (Vanderbilt University), Guy Seymour (Psychologist in Public Safety), and Brandon del Pozo (Brown University). Interest in the potential fatal consequences of police encounters has grown in recent years. Julie Ward and her colleagues have shown that the statistics about fatal shootings only include 55% of injury-causing p...

Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia, of AJPH, conducted an insightful interview with Dr. Jerome Adams, the 20th US Surgeon General and Distinguished Professor of Practice at Purdue University. The discussion centered around his latest book, "Crisis and Chaos: Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against COVID-19," published by Post Hill Press in 2023. Dr. Adams candidly shared his personal experien...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu, and Pengfei Guo highlight some of the contents of the January to March 2024 Issues and Supplements of the American Journal of Public Health. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Guoqing Hu, Dean of the School of Public Health and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics at the Central South University of China.

In this is second part of Black History Month AJPH podcasts, Katherine M Anderson, MPH, AJPH Student Editor, and Alfredo Morabia interview Regina Davis Moss, PhD, MPH, about her new book "Black Women’s Reproductive Health and Sexuality: A Holistic Public Health Approach" (APHA Press, 2023). They explore her motivations for writing the book, what it contributes to our understanding of the factors a...

AJPH's Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia had an in-person conversation with Derek M Griffith, PhD, Center for Men's Health Equity about what it takes to achieve the goal of the center, equity in men's health. Dr Griffith reflects on the importance of the inclusion of concepts of manhood, trustworthiness, intersectionality, and individual tailoring that can be incorporated into community-based and po...

Alfredo Morabia, AJPH, tuvo una conversación en persona con la Prof Maria Elena Trinidad Young, PhD (UC Merced) acerca de su trabajo comparando el estado de salud de los inmigrantes latinos y asiáticos en California. Discutimos los resultados del estudio RIGHTS (Investigación sobre la Salud de los Inmigrantes y Políticas Estatales) que muestran las experiencias de los inmigrantes en áreas como la...

AJPH's Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia had an in-person conversation with Maria Elena Trinidad Young, PhD (UC Merced) about her work comparing the health status of Latin and Asian immigrants in California. We discuss the results of the RIGHTS (Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy) Study that show the experiences of immigrants in the areas of health care, social services, employment, educa...

At APHA 2023, in Atlanta, Prof Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia interviewed Enbal Shacham (Saint Louis University) and Este Geraghty (ESRI) about the risks and opportunities of digital innovations in public health. The system needs to be responsive to lots of threats. There is also an explosion of disruptive and innovative technologies which can help but also pose privacy risks and have the potenti...

2023P5 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, review highlights of the October to December 2023 Issues. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, Associate Editor of AJPH, Senior Scientist at the Injury Prevention Research Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lately, Dr. Dasgupta was named to TIME100 Next list of rising global leaders.

Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA& AJPH) and Alfredo Morabia (EIC, AJPH) asked Barry S. Levy (Tufts University School of Medicine, and former APHA president) and Bob Gould (APHA Peace Caucus and former president of Physicians for Social Responsibility) what is the public health dimension of wars, why wars are always global, and what can public health professionals do to prevent wars and to attenuate their co...

Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) and Alfredo Morabia (EIC of AJPH) interview Prof Anne Case, from Princeton University and author with Prof Angus Deaton, of "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism." Prof Case argues that understanding the relationship in the US between educational attainment and poor social and economic outcomes may greatly add to our ability to make sense of the mortality landscap...

Fatal overdoses seem to double within 6-min walk of drug arrests. Do drug busts increase overdose deaths? New study from Indianapolis suggests it might double the risk. Do America’s drug policy policymakers need to reconsider the priority given to police drug seizures cannot as opposed to harm reduction. Alfredo Morabia and Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) discuss these issues with Prof. Brandon del Pozo (...

With our two guests, Vickie Mays and I discuss the concerning decline in life expectancy in the United States compared to other countries with Prof. Steven H. Woolf (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Prof. Lauren Gaydosh (University of Texas at Austin). Why is life expectancy an important public health measure? What causes the decline? Why are so many other countries doing better than the US?...

2023P4 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the June to September 2023 Issues. The Editor’s Corner features a new publication in AJPH (September 2023) and a commentary by Dr. Hui Wang, Dean and Distinguished Professor of the School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

Population-based monitoring of COVID-19 infections has dramatically being absent in most populations on the planet. However, the Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) was one of the rare exceptions. With Prof Paul Elliott, principal investigator of REACT @ Imperial College, London and Prof Natalie E Dean @ Emory University, Atlanta, we review how REACT was done, what it did, and i...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected health care and other essential workers more than other groups in the US, but can we quantify the damage? To what extent did it aggravate the inequities that were prevalent before the pandemic? What should public health do better next time to both prevent some harm and monitor the harm that cannot be prevented? Alfredo Morabia (AJPH) and Vickie Mays (UCLA) discus...

2023P3 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the March to June 2023 Issues. The Editor’s Corner features new publications in AJPH (May & June 2023). Dr. Yueqi Yan, a professor from the University of California, Merced provided an overview of the substance use among Asian Americans from 2016-2020. In the second podcast...

This week Vickie Mays and I discuss with Michael Fraser Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and Brent Ewig, Chief Policy and Government Relations Officer, Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) about their new book: “Vaccinating America: The Inside Story Behind the Race to Save Lives and End a Pandemic”

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu, and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the December 2022 to February 2023 Issues, Supplement 9 of 2022, and Supplement 1 of 2023. The Editor’s Corner features two articles published in AJPH (January 2023, December 2022). Miss Xueqing Liu, a doctoral student in Biostatistics from Duke-NUS Medical school provided an...