American Journal of Public Health Podcast

With Bibhas Chakraborty, Duke-NUS Medical School, and Nick Seewald, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, we discuss current limitations for public health of the classical way of conducting RCTs, give examples of these limitations, and explain why sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trials (SMARTs) and microrandomized trials (MRTs)help overcoming these limitations.

Guests: Dr Georges Benjamin (APHA) and Dr Richard Besser (RWJF) Moderators: Alfredo Morabia and Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) We discuss the state of public health after 3 years of pandemic, what are the challenges ahead, and the role of the APHA to help addressing these challenges

The theme of the meeting this year is diversity equity and inclusion in all policies. Panelists are from a different public health action domains This year's Prime Ministers were Osprey Orielle Lake, Roishetta Ozane, and Monique Verdin from the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). The panelists were Adam Kader, Allison Berry, Thomas LaVeist, Michael E. Bird, and Osprey Orielle Lake.

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the September to November issues and Supplement 7 to 8 of 2022. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. “Jim” Jun Zhang, K. C. Wong Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Deputy Director, Institute of Early Life Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine....

With my guests, Profs Chenoa D. Allen and Daniel P. Miller, we review the practical health-damaging consequences of the threats of denying naturalization to immigrants receiving public health benefits. The reality is that many immigrants are not at risk if they benefit from SNAP or Medicaid, but don't seem to be aware of it, as my guests explain. The December issue of AJPH is here: https://ajph.ap...

Prof Chenjerai Kumanyika (NYU) introduces a podcast made under his supervision by Bradley Kramer, about the state obstacles to abortion, interviewing Prof Dovile Vilda (Tulane), who also spoke of her research at a previous AJPH podcast (youtu.be/_nDejLUGg_I).

With Professor Vickie Mays, UCLA, we explore what can be done to protect women who seek an abortion in places where bans have been implemented or are pending? Can local coalitions be built to prevent total bans? What resources are there for people in the affected states that cannot go to other states for abortions? Is there anything the federal government can do? Our guests are Drs Caitlin Gerdts,...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the June to August issues and Supplement 3 to 6 of 2022. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Jihong Liu, the new Associate Editor.

There was a legitimate outcry at the harassment public health officials in some states. What is the situation now and how important has been the support to health officers in the same areas? I discuss these issues with my guests, Valerie Yeager, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Fairbanks School of Public Health, Tom Quade, former County Health Commission...

@AJPH Deputy Editor Farzana Kapadia interviews Dr Daniel Tarantola, who is an Associate Editor at @AJPH and a member of the WHO Monkeypox Emergency Committee about the threat represented by the epidemic of monkeypox and why it was not straightforward to devise a policy that protects some communities from being stigmatized, repressed and even murdered. A video version of the podcast can be seen on...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the March to May issues and Supplement 2 of 2022. It also includes a feature on the Editor-in- Charge, Dr. Alfredo Morabia.

In light of Justice Alito's leaked draft opinion suggesting the court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, what are the potential health and legal implications of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization? What will the health status of US women and of families look like? What is public health already doing to limit the direst consequences? My guests are Dr Herminia...

This is a podcast about the life of Prof Zena Stein. She was an anti apartheid activist, an epidemiologists, and a public health person who contributed tremendously to all these domains. The March issue of AJPH is about "Achieving Health Equity". Zena Stein dedicated her life to this goal. I talk about her legacy with Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim (CAPRISA)and Mitchell Warren (AVAC).

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the December, 2021, January, February and Supplement 1 of 2022. The Supplement is on “Opioid and Pain Crises: Gaps and Opportunities in Multidisciplinary Research”.

Public health is now part of the political conversation but everyone doesn't understand it in the same way. Hence the idea of interviewing Governor John Kasich, former governor of Ohio, who has been promoting a greater attention to public health, about what is public health for him.

Inspired by the editorials, "Pronouns Are a Public Health Issue," by Prof Lori Ross (Uni of Toronto) and “Sexual and Gender Minority Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Why Data Collection and Combatting Discrimination Matter Now More Than Ever,” by Dr Sean Cahill (Fenway Institute, Boston) the conversation centers around the importance for addressing and tracking inequities and injustices that impac...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, assisted by contributor Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, reviews highlights of the September, October, November and Supplement 3 2021 "Public Health 3.0 and Beyond: Incorporating Systemic Racism" issues of AJPH. The featured Associate Editor is Professor Daniel Tarantola

The pandemic has masked for now two years the epidemics that were on-going in the years prior. One of them is the obesity epidemic. We were reaching 40% of obesity among US adults before COVID-19, 19% of childhood obesity. With my two guests, Marion Nestle (New York University) and Ben Chrisinger (Oxford University) we discuss the role of poverty, soda, and, particularly, ultra-processed food in f...

COVID-19 has shed a new light on why workers are essential for our everyday life. They kept going to work for the rest of society not to completely collapse. Today, there seems to be a shortage of job seekers which creates a situation in which workers may have their say on how work should be organized on the workplace. My guests are Lisa Berkman (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health), Franci...

What are the characteristics of the Senate Bill 8 (Tx Heartbeat Act) law in Texas? Who will be most affected in the State? How socioeconomic factors mediate its impact.? What will happen to minors now in TX? What can be the impact of the invitation of Gov. Kathy Hochul to TX women? I address these questions with my guests, Prof Farzana Kapadia (NYU and AJPH), Prof Dovile Vilda (Tulane U), and Prof...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, assisted by contributor Pengfei Guo, doctoral student at Yale University, reviews highlights of the July and August issues of AJPH. The guest presenter is Dr. Dongshan Zhu from Shandong University, China. He discusses the topic of “Disease-Specific Excess Mortality During the Covid-19 Pandemic”.

New: the podcast also exists as a youtube video here: https://youtu.be/-RR-WL3Ll_4 In the absence of a FDA authorization to vaccinate for children under the age of 12, teacher vaccination, non pharmaceutical measures and contact tracing are the tools available to allow for school reopening while the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant” is spreading. Is there a way to avoid the political...

In this issue, Prof. Vickie Mays, Jody Heymann, and Mary Bassett discuss the contents of the supplement guest-edited by Vickie Mays and Susan Cochran,(UCLA), entitled When Dying Really Counts. It is about which data a public health surveillance system should be collecting to reduce and not worsen health inequalities. This discussion is a formidable reminder that public health involves the art of m...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, assisted by contributor Pengfei Guo, a doctoral student at Yale University, reviews highlights of the April to June issues of AJPH. The guest presenter is Dr. Sue Lin from HRSA, DHHS. She discussed the topic of Covid-19 vaccine distribution equity in underserved populations.

Today with my guests, representing voices from the LBGTQ, Latinas, and Black women communities, we discuss what they see as the top priority now to finally end the HIV epidemic. George Ayala, Alameda County Public Health Department, CA; Hortensia Amaro, Florida International University, and Dázon Dixon Diallo, Sister Love in Atlanta, Georgia and Johannesburg in South Africa.