Buffalo HealthCast

The winning team for the Office of Global Health Initiatives Climate-Health Innovation Sprint (Dr. Saad Alasil, Tiffany Mai, Kayla Giglia) interviews Derek Nichols about the connection between climate change and health.  
Derek Nichols is the Associate Director of Sustainability at the University at Buffalo where he works to change the culture and operations of campus to become better for the people and environment of our region. He is also an adjunct professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning where he teaches the Food Systems Planning class for graduate students. Prior to his time at UB, Derek spent four years working at Grassroots Gardens WNY helping communities steward vacant and underutilized spaces into community gardens. He is a Buffalo transplant from Vestal, NY, and loves every block of this city.

Resources:

1.  UB's Climate Action Plan
2. Clean Air Coalition Study
3. PPG Redlining Study
4. Global Health Initiative's Virtual Innovation Sprint

Credits: 
Host/Writer: Saad Alasil, PhD, MS, MPH | Tiffany Mai, MPH | Kayla Giglia
Guest: Derek Nichols, MA
Production Assistant: Sarah Robinson
Video/Audio Editor: Omar Brown

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Tobacco-related health disparities are a pressing issue in the area of tobacco prevention and cessation.  Schuyler Lawson sits down with Dr. Monica Webb-Hooper of the NIMHD to discuss the implications of tobacco on communities of color, and why these disparities exist in the first place. 
Dr. Monica Webb Hooper is Deputy Director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).  She is an internationally recognized translational behavioral scientist and clinical health psychologist. She has dedicated her career to the scientific study of minority health and racial/ethnic disparities, focusing on chronic illness prevention and health behavior change. Her program of community engaged research focuses on understanding multilevel factors and biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying modifiable risk factors, such as tobacco use and stress processes, and the development of community responsive and culturally specific interventions. Her goal is to contribute to the body of scientific knowledge and disseminate findings into communities with high need.

Teaching Notes

Resources:

1. Engagement and short-term abstinence outcomes among African Americans and Caucasians in the National Cancer Institute’s smokefreetxt program
2. Addressing underserved populations and disparities in behavior change 
3. CDC Tobacco-Related Disparities
4. Smokefree Text Messaging Programs
   
   

Credits: 
Host/Writer/Researcher - Schuyler Lawson, MA 
Guest - Dr. Monica Webb-Hooper, PhD
Audio Editor - Omar Brown
Production Assistant - Sarah Robinson

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Recreational cannabis legalization in New York State comes with many questions.  This conversation between our cohost Schuyler Lawson and renowned researcher Dr. R. Lorraine Collins answers all of them.  Listen to learn more about the legalization process, regulatory issues, and social justice around cannabis legalization on this 4/20. 
R. Lorraine Collins is a psychologist who has conducted NIH-funded addictions research for decades. The focus of her research has included: 1) emerging and young adults substance (alcohol, marijuana) use; 2) cognitive and behavioral approaches to the conceptualization, prevention, and treatment of addictive behaviors; 3) psycho-social issues (e.g., gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status) related to substance use and misuse; 4) research methods that use technology (e.g., ecological momentary assessment, smart phone apps) for assessment and intervention; 5) high-risk behaviors (e.g., intimate partner aggression, condom use) related to substance use.

Teaching Notes

Resources:
https://cannabis.ny.gov/adult-use

https://cannabis.ny.gov/medical-cannabis

https://publichealth.buffalo.edu/community-health-and-health-behavior/faculty-and-staff/faculty-directory/lcollins.html

Credits: 
Host/Writer/Researcher - Schuyler Lawson, MA 
Guest - Dr. R. Lorraine Collins, PhD
Audio Editor - Omar Brown
Production Assistant - Sarah Robinson

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Buffalo HealthCast co-host, Dr. Jessica Kruger, speaks with Dr. Sue Mann Dolce, who currently serves as the Associate Director of Accessibility Resources at the University at Buffalo.  In this conversation, we learn about the constantly evolving attitudes around disability, and what needs to change to ensure equitable treatment for all, regardless of ability.  Sue’s areas of interest and research include participation, disability studies and collaborative programming, as well as universal design and programming. She enjoys working with all members of the UB community to learn about, design and implement education and participation opportunities for everyone. Sue is also a Registered Yoga Teacher.   

Teaching Notes

Resources:
1. Ableism by Michelle R. Nario-Redmond (Includes poem entitled "Ableism" by Maria Palacios, 2017)
2. Disability Visibility Book and Podcast by Alice Wong
3. Disability Justice Concepts (various online resources) by Mia Mingus, Patty Berne, and the late Stacey Milburn (Mia and Stacey have both presented at UB
4. Crip Camp Documentary
5. Being Heumann memoir by Judy Heumann (who is also in Crip Camp as a teenager)
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Buffalo HealthCast guest host and MS student, Kellen Montanye, speaks with Life and Transition Coach, LGBTQ Activist, and Motivational Speaker Landon McNee about transgender health services in the United States, and the barriers trans individuals often face when receiving healthcare.

Teaching Notes
 
Resources:
LKM Coaching
WNY Resources
Local Healthcare

Credits:
Host/Writer/Researcher - Kellen Montanye, MS Student
Guest - Landon McNee
Audio Editor - Omar Brown
Production Assistant - Sarah Robinson
   

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Buffalo HealthCast co-host, Dr. Jessica Kruger, speaks with the CEO of Peaceprints of WNY, Cindi McEachon about incarceration and its effect on the health of those who were recently released from a justice setting, and what Peaceprints of WNY is doing to bridge the gap in disparities. 

Teaching Notes

More information on Peaceprints of WNY

Credits:  
Host/Writer/Researcher - Jessica Kruger, PhD, MCHES
Guest - Cindi McEachon, MBA
Audio Editor - Omar Brown
Production Assistant - Sarah Robinson

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Buffalo HealthCast co-host and MPH student Rachel Wenner speaks with University at Buffalo PhD candidate Kate Rogers about gender-based violence among adolescents and the work that Crisis Services of Buffalo and Erie County is doing to combat this problem throughout Western New York.

More information on Crisis Services can be found here.

Credits: 
Host/Writer/Researcher - Rachel Wenner
Guest - Kate Rogers, MPH
Audio Editor - Omar Brown
Production Assistant - Sarah Robinson

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Debora McDell-Hernandez of Planned Parenthood & Prof. Lucinda Finley of University at Buffalo's School of Law discuss with host, Tia Palermo, abortion access, cases pending in front of the Supreme Court & implications of abortion restrictions for poor individuals and pregnant people of color. 

Debora McDell-Hernandez is the Senior Director of Public and Community Affairs at Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York.

Lucinda Finley is the Frank Raichle Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo.  Her areas of expertise include reproductive rights and justice, gender and the law, tort law, and first amendment free speech. She is the author of several books and many articles in leading law journals. She has also argued a major case concerning the clash between the right to safely access abortion services and the right to protest before the US Supreme Court. She has also handled numerous cases in the federal courts of appeals.

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Co-host Natasha Allard interviews First Lady Charmaine Geeter and First Lady Narseary Harris from the National Witness Project, along with Dr. Ermelinda Bonaccio from Roswell Park, on their efforts to overcome breast cancer screening disparities among African American women in Western New York and on racial discrimination in healthcare setting.

Ermelinda Bonaccio, MD

Dr. Bonaccio serves as the Chair of Diagnostic Radiology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and has been a breast imager for 24 years. 

First Lady Charmaine Geeter and First Lady Narseary Harris

As first ladies of their church, First Lady Geeter and First Lady Harris are passionate about their advocacy work with The National Witness Project. The goal of the National Witness Project program is to increase cancer awareness and cancer screening uptake in the African American community. 

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Co-host Tia Palermo interviews Dr. Myron Glick, Founder and CEO of Jericho Road, a community health center in Buffalo, on their work attending to the healthcare needs of refugee populations, including coordinated efforts of Jericho Road with Buffalo's refugee resettlement agencies to assist Afghan evacuees. To donate to their efforts, visit https://www.wnyrac.org/ 

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