American Journal of Public Health Podcast

Is the new public health activism different from the old one? I address this question because we are in 2018 and that 50 years ago, 1968 remains the symbolic year of a transformative decade, the sixties, from which public health emerged profoundly transformed. Today there is a new public health activism challenges which challenges injustices. How different is the new activism from the older one? M...

In the May issue of AJPH we tackle a sensitive question: when and how widely should we use causal language to describe scientific findings of direct public health relevance? When can we say X is the cause of Y? This question is polarizing epidemiologists. Here, after having spoken with Miguel Hernan who coined the C-Word, I interview Professors Jennifer Ahern from UC Berkeley, Heidi Jones, from Ci...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, reviews some articles recently published in AJPH, including: Evolution of PH Education in China (1/2018); Hurricanes: Rebuilding Communities Right 1/2018); THE Linked Epidemics of Opioid Addiction and Hepatitis C (2/2018); Various Types of Arthritis in the United States (2/2018): Prevalence and Age-Related Trends From 1999 to 2014; Hearing Aid Acquisit...

The two dialoguing guitars in the podcast intro announce an issue about dialoguing in public health between people having as different worldviews as republicans and democrats. I interview Georges Benjamin (APHA), David Sundwall(R-Utah), Dick Gottfried (D-NY), Pete Kirkham(R), Dick Zimmer(R-NJ). My last question to all is about a possible bipartisan public health initiative that could have some cha...

This month we review the role of work in public health and in population health research. Work, whether we have one or not, is central to our lives but it clearly does not have the major place in public health it should have. Why is it so? To answer this difficult question my guests are Emily Ahonen (Indiana University), Michael Wright (USW), Adam Finkel (Michigan University, former OSHA), Paul La...

Hello and welcome to AJPH February 2018 podcast. This month we will be discussing the very worrisome epidemic of hepatitis C occurring in the United States. I first review with Professor Kimberly Page from the University of New Mexico how likely it is that, in a foreseeable future, the epidemic of hepatitis C could be controlled by a vaccine. Then the CDC epidemiologist Alice Asher explains why th...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, reviews some articles recently published in AJPH, including: Evolution of Public Health Emergency Management From Preparedness to Response and Recovery, PH and despair in the American heartland, Legacies of the Bolshevik Revolution, The Changing Pattern of Nutrition Intake by Social Class in Contemporary China, 1991–2011 (including a summary by Dr Zhun...

Este mes hablamos con el Profesor Carlos Rodríguez-Díaz de la Escuela Graduada de Salud Pública de la Universidad de Puerto Rico en San Juan. Hablamos de la situación de la salud publica en Puerto Rico dos meses y medio después que los huracanes Irma y María devastaron las islas del archipiélago.

The hurricanes and wildfires are announcing a new normal in public health: a time in which natural disasters occur and recur regularly, most likely at an accelerating pace. With my guests I review what it is to be victim of a hurricane, what can be done to prevent some of the humanitarian and environmental consequences, and what can be done after the disaster to rebuild often poorly built communit...

What is the role of public parks in the prevention of skin cancer and many chronic health conditions? How can we build parks that promote skin protection and physical activity? I discuss these questions with Dr Robert Zarr, from ParkRXAmerica, Dr Dave Buller, who publishes a randomized intervention study in AJPH, aimed at establishing whether building sails providing shade in parks increases the u...

Este mes hablamos con el Doctor Martin Lajous del Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica de México, en Cuernavaca. Dr Lajous es el Co-Investigador Principal del Estudio de la Salud de las Maestras en México Y publica con sus co-autores un análisis de la asociación entre consumo de refrescos azucarados y peso en mujeres mexicanas. Hablamos de cómo estos resultados pueden influenciar la decisión del go...

With my guests, who conduct research in Russia, we review the evolution of access to abortion and contraception, the magnitude and treatment of drug addition, and the policy towards tobacco smoking in the USSR, created 100 years ago, and in Russia today. Interviewees are Michele Rivkin-Fish is a cultural anthropologist, Trish Starks, a historian, and historian Nikolai Krementsov who, with AJPH his...

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, reviews some articles recently published in AJPH, including: APIA Health Forum comments on national data collection on Asians. Paul-Ram comments on oversampling of Asians in NHANES. Doering – air mattress and infant suffocation. Chinese researchers paper to compare consumption of carbonated soft drinks among young adolescents in 53 low- and middle-inco...

La esperanza de vida de los blancos americanos que viven en el campo al contrario de otras comunidades en los Estados Unidos o muchas otras partes del mundo disminuyó durante los diez últimos años. Desesperación de la clase obrera blanca? Hablamos de esto con María Mora, de la Universidad de Wisconsin, y con Ana Diez-Roux, de la escuela de salud publica de Filadelfia.

This month we tackle the decline in life expectancy of Whites living in rural regions of the US because of suicide, addiction to opioids, and alcohol. Is it despair generated by the stifled future of American white working class? My interviewees are Professors Beth Stein, Ana Diez-Roux and Associate Editor Paul Erwin.

Welcome to the podcast of AJPH. In this issue of AJPH I have three guests (Carolyn Brooks, Anisha Patel, and Kelley Dearing-Smith) to discuss a massive public health problem which is rarely mentioned and probably underestimated: unequal access to water in the United States.

Welcome to the podcast of AJPH. In this issue of AJPH we discuss the decision last spring by the new administration to erase a question about sexual orientation in a survey submitted to beneficiaries of the Older American Act. I interview Kathy Greenlee, Randy Sell, Gary Gates, Joanna Semlyen, and Laura Durso.

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, reviews some articles recently published in AJPH.

Welcomed to the podcast of AJPH. In this issue I discuss of chemical risk assessment with Associate Editor Michael Greenberg from Rutgers University and Dr Maureen Gwinn from the Office of Research and Development of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Bienvenidos al podcast mensual de la Revista Americana de Salud Pública para el mes de junio. Soy Alfredo Morabia, el Editor en Jefe de la AJPH. Este mes hablo con Diego Vasquez, un investigador de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, en el Ecuador, sobre terremoto y Zika. Con sus colegas comparó el riesgo de contraer el virus Zika en las zonas afectadas por el terremoto de 2016 y en...

Hola y bienvenidos al podcast mensual de la Revista Americana de Salud Pública para el mes de junio. Soy Alfredo Morabia, el Editor en Jefe de la AJPH. Este mes hablo con Jorge Alonzo y Lilli Mann, dos investigadores de la Wake Forest University en Carolina del norte, de un estudio controlado randomizado para aumentar el uso de condones y la pruebas de VIH entre los hombres latinos que tienen sexo...

This is the AJPH monthly podcast for June 2017. I am Alfredo Morabia, the Editor-in-Chief. The theme is Emerging Methods in Public Health Surveillance and I interview Lorna Thorpe (about new challenges), Denys Lau (about the new Journal section and about NCHS), Ryne Paulose (about the Asian-American NHANES), and Kathy Ko Chin (about why the AAPI community is excited about NHANES).

Hola y bienvenidos al podcast mensual de la Revista Americana de Salud Pública para el mes de mayo. Soy Alfredo Morabia, el Editor en Jefe de la AJPH. Hablamos de la prevención de la obesidad en las comunidades latinas de California con dos estudios. Entrevisto a la Profesora Hortensia Amaro sobre una intervención para mejorar la dieta y a la Profesora Elva Arredondo sobre una intervención para au...

This is the AJPH monthly podcast for May 2017. I am Alfredo Morabia, the Editor-in-Chief. The theme is National Public Health Week and I interview Susan Polan (about #NPHW), Georges Benjamin (about APHA), Tom Burke (about the EPA), Mona Hanna-Attisha (about Flint, MI), David Sundwall (about the ACA), Ann Philbrick (about refugees) and Steffie Woolhandler (about a PH vision for the 21stC).

Hello and welcome to the Editor’s highlights of some of the contents of the April 2017 issue of AJPH. This is Alfredo Morabia, the Editor-in-Chief. One of the themes discussed in this issue is that of driverless cars. In this podcast I interview Janet Fleetwood and Noah Goodall their vision of a future in which most cars will be driverless and the related ethical issues for public health. In the s...