The HPP Podcast

This episode is a replay of S1 Ep. 11, which features Native voices in anticipation of HPP's 5th Annual Native and Indigenous Voices Collection. Dr. Katherine Kim talks through her paper on youth citizen science that won Health Promotion Practice's Paper of the Year for 2020. She was joined by Ashley Michael, one of the youth leaders, and Lisa Morehead-Hillman, a manager in the Tribe’s Department...

"What we're trying to create here is having creatives and communities of color and people from the margin speak for themselves, to themselves, right? Instead of having to speak through a researcher or to speak to a research audience. They can speak for themselves, to their own communities, to their own people... A big part of our section is, how this work translates into pedagogy and into and outs...

"We want to have a dialogue about developing the capacity to grapple with political dysfunction. We need to be able to win political battles in order to save lives." In this episode, Dr. Marcus Cheatham, Dr. Heidi Hancher-Rauch, Dr. Jodi Brookins-Fisher, Dr. Alexis Blavos, and Dr. Amy Thompson help us explore how the current political landscape has led to a poor national response to the pandemic....

“So we have created a public health crisis by not designing systems that will last or systems that will work.” This episode features Catherine Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret , as well as Dr. Antonio Gardner and Dr. Ashley White Jones, authors of Using an HIV Disclosure Model to Slow the Spread of COVID-19 . In honor of Black History Month, they discuss e...

In this episode, Dr. Suzanne Grossman, Dr. Noah Lenstra, and Dr. Renée Umstattd Meyer discuss how libraries are an underutilized resource for supporting public health in communities. They emphasize the need for partnerships and hope that public health continues to generate excitement for public libraries. This episode references the article titled " How Public Libraries Help Immigrants Adjust to L...

In this episode, Dr. AnnaMarie O’Neill and Dr. Joie Acosta discuss the need for sexual assault prevention and the utility of their adapted tool for individuals and teams. They explain the need for a paradigm shift with a greater emphasis on prevention, especially in the military and colleges. This episode references the article titled " Development and Pilot Test of the Competency Assessment for S...

"The community health worker is under utilized, and yet can be the best glue across that continuum" In this episode, Ysabel Duron and Dr. Manali Patel discuss the importance of community health workers (CHWs) in cancer care delivery. They talk about the unique capacity of CHW to identify the actual gaps and actual needs of patients to support and work in tandem with doctors. This episode refe...

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of The HPP Podcast. Read and follow along with this reading of " Black & Mild: A Tutorial, After the CDC " by Ryan J. Petteway, DrPH, MPH by viewing the Supplemental Material associated with the article. With our July 2022 issue, Health Promotion Practice is proud to introduce a new, regular section of our journal, entitled “Poetry for the Public’s Healt...

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of The HPP Podcast. Read and follow along with this reading of " Stress Test " by Shanaé Burch, EdM by viewing the Supplemental Material associated with the article. With our July 2022 issue, Health Promotion Practice is proud to introduce a new, regular section of our journal, entitled “Poetry for the Public’s Health.” The section has been imagined, curated...

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of The HPP Podcast. Read and follow along with this reading of " Butterfly Broke Off " by LeConté J. Dill, DrPH by viewing the Supplemental Material associated with the article. With our July 2022 issue, Health Promotion Practice is proud to introduce a new, regular section of our journal, entitled “Poetry for the Public’s Health.” The section has been imagi...

"I felt like I had the tools to help them in terms of medications and monitoring their health status, but I felt like I didn't have the tools that I needed to help them make healthful changes in their lives... This is a program that is inherently abundance focused, right? It is inherently celebrating the resources within a community." In this episode, Carly Joseph and Michelle Seguin discuss the s...

"Essential, yet not deserving. Useful, yet expendable." In this episode, Dr. Sara Baumann and Dr. Jessica Burke discuss the use of art to address isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Patricia Documet participated in the virtual art gallery and reads her poem "I want to see the sunshine" aloud, which was written to capture her lived experience during the pandemic. They talk about how to defi...

In this episode, Dr. Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez and Dr. Paul McDaniel discuss their interdisciplinary partnership and longstanding work in immigrant health. They explain their micro/meso/macro approach that mirrors the social ecological model, as well as the importance of mentorship through research. They also mention developing the Georgia Immigration Research Network . This episode references the...

In this episode, Dr. Allison Casola broke down the social ecological model and used it to understand mask use and period poverty. She explained ways to get involved and to understand the context for different public health issues. This episode referenced the article titled " Mask Use During COVID-19: A Social-Ecological Analysis " by Allison R. Casola, PhD, MPH, CHES, Brianna Kunes, Amy Cunningham...

In this episode, Dara Schlueter discusses colorectal cancer incidence, screening, and factors related to screening. She explains the success of the Colorectal Cancer Control Program and it's importance against a preventable condition. This episode references the article titled " Factors That Support Sustainability of Health Systems Change to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in Primary Care Cli...

"So for me, practice notes is really a scholarship of getting it done– and I think that requires fearlessness, and I've always been drawn to fearless practitioners... This isn't knowledge for knowledge sake. This is knowledge in the pursuit of affecting really positive social change." In this episode, Dr. Danielle R. Brittain, Leo Kattari, and Dr. Virginia Visconti discuss the unique space that th...

In this episode, Arden Castle is in conversation with Dr. Carlos Rodriguez-Diaz, Leo Kattari, and Lisa Carlson to celebrate PRIDE month and the 20 year anniversary of Health Promotion Practice’s first LGBTQ+ article. They talk about their unique perspectives, bringing their authentic selves to their work, visibility, and the past and future of writing about LGBTQ+ topics. Their stories are intertw...

In this episode, Dr. Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner, Booker Marshall, and Derrick Little help us explore strategies for supporting LGBTQ+ high school students and their surrounding community. They talk about the context of the program, as well as the commitment to create GSAs (Gay Sexuality Alliances) in all the high schools. This episode references the article titled " Strategies to Support LGBTQ+ Studen...

In this episode, Leo Kattari helps us explore the current political climate and transgender legislation for HPP's PRIDE Celebration . He talks about bans, the effects of discrimination, and the value of advocacy. He provides several ways to get involved, and previews HPP's Practice Notes call for papers .

In this episode, Dr. Campbell Galman helps us explore their new paper and the role of comics. They explain the process of moving from words to image, as well as the nuances of working with children. She describes wedges as simple machines for transgender and gender diverse children to tell their stories. This episode features the article " Wedges: Stories as Simple Machines " by Sally Campbell Gal...

This May, 2022 has been a moment of such stark global violence with people turning on each other, and particularly in the United States, the gun violence, mental health crisis, egregious attacks on rights, and so much more. There's just so much going on in our world that is violent. I appreciate you all allowing us to take a short break to finalize the content for this summer. What we have already...

In this episode, Christy Oberholtzer and Dr. Lauren Lessard preview their upcoming paper in HPP. They discuss how they actively pivoted to meet the needs of the community and the stakeholders. They offer lessons learned from their community-based participatory research experience, how to avoid burnout, and insights into the field.

In this episode, Dr. Shemeka Thorpe discusses her new paper, as well as the future for the two studies that were combined in her manuscript. She also talks about her research on sexual pain and pleasure among Black women as a sexuality educator. She focuses on sex-positive research, funding, and gaps in research for Black women. She also helps us envision a future with institutional level change f...

In this episode, Dr. Heidi Hancher-Rauch, Dr. Amy Thompson, Dr. Jodi Brookins-Fisher, and Dr. Alexis Blavos help us explore the health education professions’ response to COVID-19. They talk about the professional competencies of the field, the role of universities, and the flexibility of Health Education Specialists during the pandemic. This episode references the article titled " Universities as...

In this episode, co-editors Dr. Robin Evans-Agnew and Dr. Bob Strack discuss the future of Photovoice with authors Chris Seitz and Muhson Orsini. This episode references their article titled “ 30 Years of Implementing the Photovoice Method: Insights from a review of reviews " from the 2022 HPP Special Issue on Photovoice . Listen to the playlist on Spotify for Photovoice Series 1 , Photovoice Seri...