Hoosier Health Matters

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 24 Date: 9/12/2025 Title:   BONUS episode: Questions answered about getting vaccines this fall In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson are joined by infectious disease physician Haley Pritchard and pharmacist Veronica Vernon to untangle the massive confusion that is vaccine policy this fall and answer questions...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 23 Date: 9/5/2025 Title:   The enshittification of the CDC and (unrelated) all you want to know about school based health centers In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss the continued systematic dismantling of expertise and value in the CDC, a form of enshittification (a real word). Then they talk with D...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 22 Date: 8/22/2025 Title:   Lived experience: an interview on the personal toll of Indiana's reproductive politics In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss Indiana public health news and then talk with Amber and Michael Dowd, who share their story of navigating a devastating fetal anomaly diagnosis u...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 21 Date: 8/8/2025 Title:   Climate change and public health, and some news In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss  00:00- Intro 1:20- Tracey's state fair llama costume contest disappointment 3:28- $500 million in mRNA vaccine research cancelled and ACIP kicks out medical societies 6:48- New CDC dir...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 20 Date: 7/25/2025 Title:   A terrific interview about gun violence prevention in Indiana (and some news)  In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss the decision by HHS to abruptly cancel the Preventative Services Taskforce meeting and what it could mean for public health, a provision of the federal budget...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 19 Date: 7/11/2025 Title:   ACIP jumps the thimerosal shark, The Big Beautiful Bill really isn't, and we answer your questions In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss the decision by the ACIP to remove thimerosal from vaccine formulations in the US, which will have little effect on vaccines here but...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 18 Date: 6/27/2025 Title:   ACIP shakeup, SCOTUS on trans care, and deconstructing the bogus mifepristone report In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss the new members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and find many of them to be sus. They discuss SCOTUS's ruling on the Tennessee...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 17 Date: 6/13/2025 Title:   When Protections Vanish: EMTALA, ACIP, and Indiana’s Hunger Crisis In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson update public health news including a discussion of the rescinding of a guidance about EMTALA in pregnancy (we will explain this- it is a big deal), RFK, Jr's move to fire a...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 16 Date: 5/30/2025 Title:   The federal budget, vaccine policy process woes, and judicial cases that will affect us all **Editorial note: Gabe's audio this week is wonky because he had to tape in a room that apparently had demons in it that could only be heard by the microphone** In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Trac...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 15 Date: 5/16/2025 Title:   What is MAHA all about anyway? And what the heck do lobbyists do? In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson update public health news including Measles in Indiana (flat, thank goodness), shenanigans related to a lawsuit and FDA investigation into the safety of mifepristone, and the sham...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 14 Date: 5/2/2025 Title:   Exhaling after the legislative session In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson update public health news including Measles in Indiana (flat, thank goodness), and journals get a threatening letter from a US attorney. They then talk about the end of the session: a wrap up on the bills GT...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 13 Date: 4/25/2025 Title:   SB1: The tax break likely to cost most Hoosiers more taxes In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson update public health news including Measles in Indiana (flat, thank goodness), and Universities pushing back against federal overreach. They then talk about SB 442 (the sex ed bill), and...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 12 Date: 4/18/2025 Title:   The not-so-great plan to Make Indiana Healthy Again In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson update public health news including a brief discussion of how fluoride at reasonable doses in the water is beneficial, an update on bills in the legislature, and a breakdown of the nine Executi...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 11 Date: 4/11/2025 Title: The measles in Indiana, medicaid overhaul passes the house, and effect of HHS cuts on the Indiana Immunization Coalition (interview) In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson update public health news including quick story updates, how to approach vaccination now that measles has been det...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 10 Date: 4/4/2025 Title: How the federal government is dismantling public health (and a couple other things) In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson update public health news including major HHS job cuts resulting in a 25% reduction in the workforce, an update on bills heard this week, a discussion of Title X fu...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 9 Date: 3/28/2025 Title: A favorable ruling in the TPR case and the role of pharmacists in public health In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson update public health news including a lawsuit opposing the Columbia NIH grant issue and a charlatan is named by an unserious person (RKF jr) to head up a(nother) study...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 8 Date: 3/21/2025 Title: The evolution of medicaid reform, horse dentists, and harm reduction In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss how SB2 (medicaid reform) has changed as it has traversed the legislature. They discuss the Senate floor testimony about SCR 24 (crisis pregnancy centers), and how Senator...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 7 Date: 3/14/2025 Title: Navigating Indiana's legislative website (it's easy!) and the harm of crisis pregnancy centers in Indiana In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss how to find information about bills on the Indiana General Assembly website (which is one of the best in the country) and ta...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 6 Date: 3/7/2025 Title: A good executive order, SB 289 takes medical education back 2 decades, and Maternal Mortality Review Committees In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss give kudos to Governor Braun for an executive order that beefs up parental leave for Indiana state employees. They then talk abou...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 5 Date: 2/28/2025 Title: Dolly Parton teaches us about budget values, abolishing the menstruation tax, and the Leeroy Jenkins approach to public health at HHS In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson take a halftime bird's eye view of the Indiana legislative session. They talk about how Dolly Parton has felt...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 4 Date: 2/21/2025 Title: Halftime lookback, update on TPR case, and Hoosier public health funding  In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson look back at the first half of the legislative session with some bill updates and a discussion of the dead bills they will miss and the dead bills they are happy are dead. Th...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 3 Date: 2/14/2025 Title: A contraception bill gone wrong, Indiana medicaid, and NIH funding controversy In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss House Bill 1169, which was authored to improve access to contraception for low-income Hoosiers, but was amended to do very little and redefine birth control in t...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 2 Date: 2/7/2025 Title: Three bills, a cancelled conference, and the state of science in America In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson three health policy bills heard in the last two weeks in the Indiana legislature. One (SB 370) deals with medicaid costs for outpatient procedures (which Gabe calls the "T...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 1 Date: 1/31/2025 Title: Thus it Begins In this inaugural episode of Hoosier Health Matters, host Gabriel Bosslet and guest Tracey Wilkinson from the Good Trouble Coalition discuss the current Indiana legislative session, focusing on key health policy issues. They provide an overview of the legislative process, highlight significant bills such as Senate Bil...