American Journal of Public Health Podcast

Mark Ryan, from WHO, points out that we may still not facing what “the big one”. I met with Dr Renuka Tiperneni (U. Michigan), Dr Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins), and Dr. Rebekah Gee (Louisiana State U) to explore how public health can be galvanized so that a new administration best prepares the country to face a future pandemic that is worse than Covid-19.

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, assisted by contributor Pengfei Guo, a doctoral student at Yale University, review some

articles recently published in the September to December issues of

AJPH. The guest presenter is Professor Yinghua Ma, Associate

Director of the Adolescent Health Institute at Beijing University. She

discussed the article on “Body Mass Index Trajectory and Incident

Hypertension: Results From a Longitudinal Cohort of Chinese

Children and Adolescents, 2006–2016”.

In this podcast, with Profs. Lisa Bowleg (AJPH & GWU), Skyler Jackson, (Yale) and Jennifer Nazareno (Brown), we discuss what is intersectionality and why early career public health researchers are attracted by a framework that is premised on the interplay of science and society and on the heterogeneity of people’s lived experiences. It also features a song by KJ Denhert.

We review the evidence relating medical care expenses and health and discuss whether diverting part of the resources now wasted in medical care, which is expensive per capita and of inequitable access, and investing these resources in prevention can help reinvent public health. My Guests are Dr Sanne Magnan (MN) and Professors Phillis Meadows (MI)and Mac McCullough (AZ).

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, reviews some articles

recently published in the June, July, and August issues of AJPH,

including: financial toll of untreated perinatal mood and anxiety

disorders, Covid-19 in Asia, and impact of Covid-19 and Asian

populations in the US. The guest presentation features a preview of

the article, entitled, “Estimation of the outbreak severity and

evaluation of epidemic prevention ability of COVID-19 by province in

China”, presented by Yilei Ma, a doctoral candidate at Huazhong

Technical University.

Why is there a need to reinvent public health and what should be the essential traits of the reinvented public health system? These are the questions I discuss in this podcast with authors of the November issue of AJPH. Professor Nancy Krieger (Harvard U) wrote that we had enough with the current public health. Professor Ross Brownson (Washington U. StLouis) with three colleagues described the path forward for public health priorities now and five years ahead. And, Professor Larry Gostin (Georgetown U.)warns that global governance in the public health world is being reinvented at a time when the US is severing its ties to World Health Organization and the United Nations.

In this podcast, we attempt to answer three questions: How effective has the US response to the Covid-19 pandemic been? Were the major but localized crises of Katrina and Flint harbingers of the generalized Covid-19 crisis? What did we learn from them to prepare for the Covid-19 pandemic and what did we miss? Third, did CDC play the role the public, the states, and scientists were expecting from it? My guests are Joe Kanter (Louisiana Department of Health), Bob Kim-Farley (UCLA and AJPH), and Wendy Parmet (Northeastern and AJPH)

This month issue and podcast provide a public health perspective on rural America. Is rural America sinking or is it America’s public health’s life buoy? The ongoing pandemic invites us to reconsider the role of rural regions in designing a new, post-Covid19 public health. The overall message emanating from these contributions is paradoxically optimistic. My four guests are: Shauntice Allen (Alabama SPH), Wendy Braund (Pennsylvania DOH), Michael Meit (East Tennessee SU), and Eduardo Sanchez (Texas, and AHA).

Why is police brutality a public health problem? Why is there a need for more evidence to control a phenomenon that is blatantly harmful at a mass scale? What should be the role of PH departments if funds are diverted from the police to social services? And is the current uprising some form of revolution? My four guests are Sirry Alang (Lehigh University), Mary Bassett (former Commissioner of Health for New York City), Lisa Bowleg, (George Washington University and AJPH), Leana Wen (former Baltimore's Health Commissioner).

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu, reviews some articles recently published in the March, April and May issues of AJPH, including: importance of the January supplement on carceral health, health disparities uncovered by Asian subgroup analysis, and actions to improve Asian American health. The guest presentation features the editorial on ‘Seven Reasons to Care About Racism and COVID-19 and Seven Things to Do to Stop It’, written by Dr. Gilbert Gee, a renowned expert on racial discrimination and disease.