American Journal of Public Health Podcast

Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA& AJPH) and Alfredo Morabia (EIC, AJPH) asked Barry S. Levy (Tufts University School of Medicine, and former APHA president) and Bob Gould (APHA Peace Caucus and former president of Physicians for Social Responsibility) what is the public health dimension of wars, why wars are always global, and what can public health professionals do to prevent wars and to attenuate their consequences.

Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) and Alfredo Morabia (EIC of AJPH) interview Prof Anne Case, from Princeton University and author with Prof Angus Deaton, of "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism." Prof Case argues that understanding the relationship in the US between educational attainment and poor social and economic outcomes may greatly add to our ability to make sense of the mortality landscape that we face.

Fatal overdoses seem to double within 6-min walk of drug arrests. Do drug busts increase overdose deaths? New study from Indianapolis suggests it might double the risk. Do America’s drug policy policymakers need to reconsider the priority given to police drug seizures cannot as opposed to harm reduction. Alfredo Morabia and Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) discuss these issues with Prof. Brandon del Pozo (Brown University), Lisa Daugaard, Co-Executive Director/Purpose Dignity Action (Seattle, WS) and Dr Nabarun Dasgupta (U North Carolina)

With our two guests, Vickie Mays and I discuss the concerning decline in life expectancy in the United States compared to other countries with Prof. Steven H. Woolf (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Prof. Lauren Gaydosh (University of Texas at Austin). Why is life expectancy an important public health measure? What causes the decline? Why are so many other countries doing better than the US? What are the main recommendations to stop the decline?

2023P4 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the June to September 2023 Issues.

The Editor’s Corner features a new publication in AJPH (September 2023) and a commentary by Dr. Hui Wang, Dean and Distinguished Professor of the School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

Population-based monitoring of COVID-19 infections has dramatically being absent in most populations on the planet. However, the Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) was one of the rare exceptions. With Prof Paul Elliott, principal investigator of REACT @ Imperial College, London and Prof Natalie E Dean @ Emory University, Atlanta, we review how REACT was done, what it did, and in how much it could serve as an example for the US. Moderators are: Alfredo Morabia @ AJPH and Prof Vickie Mays @ UCLA.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected health care and other essential workers more than other groups in the US, but can we quantify the damage? To what extent did it aggravate the inequities that were prevalent before the pandemic? What should public health do better next time to both prevent some harm and monitor the harm that cannot be prevented? Alfredo Morabia (AJPH) and Vickie Mays (UCLA) discuss these issues with J. Paul Leigh, PhD (UC Davis Medical School, CA); Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot, PhD, Columbia University, NY; and Adam Gaffney, M. D., M. P. H., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

2023P3 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the March to June 2023 Issues.

The Editor’s Corner features new publications in AJPH (May & June 2023). Dr. Yueqi Yan, a professor from the University of California, Merced provided an overview of the substance use among Asian Americans from 2016-2020. In the second podcast, our podcaster Guo Pengfei synthesized the methods in population monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 infection via random sampling during the COVID-19 pandemic. You are welcome to read full papers at AJPH.

This week Vickie Mays and I discuss with Michael Fraser Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and Brent Ewig, Chief Policy and Government Relations Officer, Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) about their new book: “Vaccinating America: The Inside Story Behind the Race to Save Lives and End a Pandemic”

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu, and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the December 2022 to February 2023 Issues, Supplement 9 of 2022, and Supplement 1 of 2023.

The Editor’s Corner features two articles published in AJPH (January 2023, December 2022). Miss Xueqing Liu, a doctoral student in Biostatistics from Duke-NUS Medical school provided an overview of the experimental design of MRTs and the intervention design of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) in the area of mobile health. In the second podcast, Miss Fanzhen Mao from Jiangsu Institute of Parasite Diseases reported the effects of behavioral change communication-based interventions in reducing pinworm infection among preschool children in China. Welcome to read the full articles in AJPH.