American Journal of Public Health Podcast

With Bibhas Chakraborty, Duke-NUS Medical School, and Nick Seewald, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, we discuss current limitations for public health of the classical way of conducting RCTs, give examples of these limitations, and explain why sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trials (SMARTs) and microrandomized trials (MRTs)help overcoming these limitations.

Guests: Dr Georges Benjamin (APHA) and Dr Richard Besser (RWJF)

Moderators: Alfredo Morabia and Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA)

We discuss the state of public health after 3 years of pandemic, what are the challenges ahead, and the role of the APHA to help addressing these challenges

The theme of the meeting this year is diversity equity and inclusion in all policies. Panelists are from a different public health action domains This year's Prime Ministers were Osprey Orielle Lake, Roishetta Ozane, and Monique Verdin from the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). The panelists were Adam Kader, Allison Berry, Thomas LaVeist, Michael E. Bird, and Osprey Orielle Lake.

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the September to November issues and Supplement 7 to 8 of 2022.

The Editor’s Corner features Dr. “Jim” Jun Zhang, K. C. Wong Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Deputy Director, Institute of Early Life Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Dr. Zhang commented on a research article published on AJPH’s October Supplement 8 about the breastfeeding practices among people infected by SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With my guests, Profs Chenoa D. Allen and Daniel P. Miller, we review the practical health-damaging consequences of the threats of denying naturalization to immigrants receiving public health benefits. The reality is that many immigrants are not at risk if they benefit from SNAP or Medicaid, but don't seem to be aware of it, as my guests explain. The December issue of AJPH is here: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/current.

Prof Chenjerai Kumanyika (NYU) introduces a podcast made under his supervision by Bradley Kramer, about the state obstacles to abortion, interviewing Prof Dovile Vilda (Tulane), who also spoke of her research at a previous AJPH podcast (youtu.be/_nDejLUGg_I).

With Professor Vickie Mays, UCLA, we explore what can be done to protect women who seek an abortion in places where bans have been implemented or are pending? Can local coalitions be built to prevent total bans? What resources are there for people in the affected states that cannot go to other states for abortions? Is there anything the federal government can do? Our guests are Drs Caitlin Gerdts, Ibis, Ushma Upadhyay, UCSF, and Diana Greene-Foster, UCSF.

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the June to August issues and Supplement 3 to 6 of 2022. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Jihong Liu, the new Associate Editor.

There was a legitimate outcry at the harassment public health officials in some states. What is the situation now and how important has been the support to health officers in the same areas? I discuss these issues with my guests, Valerie Yeager, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Fairbanks School of Public Health, Tom Quade, former County Health Commissioner, Geauga County, Ohio, and Beth Resnick - Senior Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A video is available here https://youtu.be/1gPxhTz8iIU

@AJPH Deputy Editor Farzana Kapadia interviews Dr Daniel Tarantola, who is an Associate Editor at @AJPH and a member of the WHO Monkeypox Emergency Committee about the threat represented by the epidemic of monkeypox and why it was not straightforward to devise a policy that protects some communities from being stigmatized, repressed and even murdered. A video version of the podcast can be seen on @AJPH youtube channel here: https://youtu.be/axEY9fhvCC0