The Community Health Exchange

Carey Rothschild and Lillie Hall join us on this episode to discuss the new IACH Community Health Digital Badge in partnership with the SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare. Carey serves as the Director of Community Health Policy and Strategy of the Spartanburg Regional System, and Lillie is the Community Engagement Director at the Department of Public Health Upstate. They will both serve as...

“If it’s not equal for one of us, it’s not equal for any of us.” Ma’ta Crawford, a Certified Community Health Worker, has never been able to leave her field of health equity work — she says there is always more work to be done.   She serves as a member of the HEAL (Health Equity Action Leadership) Board, a community-led advisory board supported by LiveWell Greenville and the Institute for the Adva...

At the IACH, we help students gain meaningful experiences in their fields that deepen their academic learning and ignite a passion for community health. In this episode, Health Careers Internship Coordinator Rebecca Haffen sits down with Will Hutson — a graduating senior Public Health major and Community Health Champion at Furman University — to talk about his journey in community health, hands-on...

Research suggests that the health risks associated with social isolation are comparable to those of smoking, obesity, and alcohol use, yet many modern communities are not structured to foster meaningful in-person interaction. In this episode, Dr. Kerry Sease is joined in the podcast studio by Risa Wilkerson, Executive Director of Healthy Places by Design. Together they discuss how Healthy Places B...

Even the best research can end up excluding the very communities it aims to serve. Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is different — it’s rooted in collaboration and "power-sharing." Communities are a part of each step of the research process, and the partnership continues after the research concludes. Postdoctoral training coordinator Meghan Richmond talks to IACH Postdoctoral fellows...

Neuroscience major Kadence Alexander brought her studies in neuroscience beyond the classroom by working with children at The Phoenix Center’s Serenity Place, a live-in treatment center for women with substance use disorder that provides on-site childcare. Her position helped breathe real life experiences into the content she was learning about in the classroom and inspired her to ask more questio...

This week, Dr. Gabriela Abrego, a research associate at the IACH, joins Dr. Shaniece Criss, Associate Professor of Health Sciences and Director of the Master of Arts in Advocacy and Social Policy at Furman University. They discuss the ways in which they incorporated community voice and lived experiences into the CHAMPS study. CHAMPS is an interdisciplinary medical-legal partnership of the Universi...

In the inaugural episode of The Community Health Exchange, we introduce the impact of seeing health beyond the individual level. Looking at health in community allows us to understand the exam room as just one piece of the puzzle, and medicine as more than a pill. This episode features Dr. Saria Saccocio — Chief Medical Officer of Essence Healthcare, and volunteer physician — as she sits down with...