Healthy Intersections

Healthy Intersections

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Healthy Intersections episodes

  • Episode 3: December 2021 Podcast

    In this episode, Jess Williams recaps the blog posts we published on The Medical Care Blog in November and previews the December issue of Medical Care. As a bonus, Lisa Flaherty interviews and introduces two of our December contributors: Dr. Sharla Smith, founder of the Kansas Birth Equity Network (KBEN), and Ms. Valerie White, a parent and advocate with KBEN. They talk about their work in community engagement to address Black maternal and infant mortality and morbidity. Check out their blog series on Birth Equity: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.

    Listen all the way to the end for special guest vocals from Baby T!

    12 min
  • Episode 7: Vaccine Points-of-Dispensing Medical Exercise
    By Benjamin Eovaldi & Steve Edstrom | April 19, 2021
    In military medicine, exercises, such as a mass vaccination points-of-dispensing (POD) scenario, test preparedness capacity, and drill for potential real-world public health emergency scenarios. Exercises are designed to challenge medical teams to work under pressure and problem solve according to conditions presented in the exercise scenario. A benefit of medical exercises in the military is that they facilitate integrating the public health team with medical providers and other supporting agencies on the base and in the community through regular training, which carries over to real-world partnerships when actual public health emergencies arise. Exercises such as these provide the preparation and training required for when real-world incidents, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, occur.
    9 min

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TL;DR? Healthy Intersections focuses on the intersection of medical care and public health. Our academic, non-profit, volunteer-run blog is sponsored by the peer-reviewed journal