American Journal of Public Health Podcast

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the March to May issues and Supplement 2 of 2022. It also includes a feature on the Editor-in- Charge, Dr. Alfredo Morabia.

In light of Justice Alito's leaked draft opinion suggesting the court is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade, what are the potential health and legal implications of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women's Health Organization? What will the health status of US women and of families look like? What is public health already doing to limit the direst consequences? My guests are Dr Herminia Palacio (Guttmacher Institute, NYC), Prof Farzana Kapadia (NYU), Deputy Editor, AJPH, Prof Wendy E. Parmet (Northeastern), Associate Editor, AJPH

This is a podcast about the life of Prof Zena Stein. She was an anti apartheid activist, an epidemiologists, and a public health person who contributed tremendously to all these domains. The March issue of AJPH is about "Achieving Health Equity". Zena Stein dedicated her life to this goal. I talk about her legacy with Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim (CAPRISA)and Mitchell Warren (AVAC).

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the December, 2021, January, February and Supplement 1 of 2022. The Supplement is on “Opioid and Pain Crises: Gaps and Opportunities in Multidisciplinary Research”.

Public health is now part of the political conversation but everyone doesn't understand it in the same way. Hence the idea of interviewing Governor John Kasich, former governor of Ohio, who has been promoting a greater attention to public health, about what is public health for him.

Inspired by the editorials, "Pronouns Are a Public Health Issue," by Prof Lori Ross (Uni of Toronto) and “Sexual and Gender Minority Health in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Why Data Collection and Combatting Discrimination Matter Now More Than Ever,” by Dr Sean Cahill (Fenway Institute, Boston) the conversation centers around the importance for addressing and tracking inequities and injustices that impact trans-and-gender-diverse people of: 1) inclusive language in both public/private settings and 2) survey/surveillance data about sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) .

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, assisted by contributor

Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, reviews highlights

of the September, October, November and Supplement 3 2021 "Public Health 3.0 and Beyond: Incorporating Systemic Racism" issues of

AJPH. The featured Associate Editor is Professor Daniel Tarantola

The pandemic has masked for now two years the epidemics that were on-going in the years prior. One of them is the obesity epidemic. We were reaching 40% of obesity among US adults before COVID-19, 19% of childhood obesity. With my two guests, Marion Nestle (New York University) and Ben Chrisinger (Oxford University) we discuss the role of poverty, soda, and, particularly, ultra-processed food in fueling the obesity epidemic.

Also available on youtube https://am.ajph.link/VIDEO_December21

COVID-19 has shed a new light on why workers are essential for our everyday life. They kept going to work for the rest of society not to completely collapse. Today, there seems to be a shortage of job seekers which creates a situation in which workers may have their say on how work should be organized on the workplace. My guests are Lisa Berkman (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health), Francisco Diez (Center for Popular Democracy), Ashley Gates (United for Respect), and Marcy Goldstein-Gelb(National Council for Occupational Safety and Health). There is a video version of the podcast here: https://am.ajph.link/VIDEO_October2021

What are the characteristics of the Senate Bill 8 (Tx Heartbeat Act) law in Texas? Who will be most affected in the State? How socioeconomic factors mediate its impact.? What will happen to minors now in TX? What can be the impact of the invitation of Gov. Kathy Hochul to TX women? I address these questions with my guests, Prof Farzana Kapadia (NYU and AJPH), Prof Dovile Vilda (Tulane U), and Prof Amanda Stevenson (U Colorado).

The podcast can also be seen in youtube here: https://youtu.be/_nDejLUGg_I