Healthy You

COVID-19 is everywhere in the media, but how do journalists decide how to cover it and can all media sources be trusted to report the facts? Having covered pandemics and emerging diseases for over 20 years, Maggie Fox, a Senior Editor at CNN, shares invaluable insights into how other potential pandemics such as swine flu, SARS, and bird flu were covered in the media, and how increasing political polarization in the US has impacted coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs.

West Virginia is winning the COVID arms race - that is, the race to get vaccines for the virus into arms. In this episode, Frank speaks with Krista Capehart, Director of Regulatory Affairs for West Virginia's Board of Pharmacy and one of the architects of the state's vaccine distribution plan about the strategy behind West Virginia's success and how lessons learned can be replicated to increase vaccination rates across the country.

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs.

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenging time for all of us, but for none more than people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. In this week's episode, Heather LaTorra, President and CEO of Marrakech Inc., joins Frank in an intimate discussion about how the pandemic has affected people with disabilities and how frontline workers have stepped up to help them get through it. 

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenging time for all of us, but for none more than people with intellectual or developmental disabilities. In this week's episode, Heather LaTorra, President and CEO of Marrakech Inc., joins Frank in an intimate discussion about how the pandemic has affected people with disabilities and how frontline workers have stepped up to help them get through it. 

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the GWSPH and SMPA.

With the rollout of the vaccine, we are at an inflection point within the COVID pandemic. If people get vaccinated and we reach herd immunity, we can beat it. If not, we won't. In this week's episode, we speak with Dr. Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, about how the language we use around the vaccine can impact people's willingness to get vaccinated, and ultimately, save lives. 

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs.

The approval and distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine mark a potential turning point in the pandemic, but according to polls, much of the public is still hesitant to get vaccinated. Dr. David Broniatowski, Associate Professor at the George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Associate Director of the George Washington University Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, shares his research on the misinformation and disinformation around COVID and discusses how bad information can sew public distrust in the vaccine and the country’s larger public health response to the pandemic.

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs.

While COVID-19 dominates national headlines, the opioid crisis continues to ravage communities throughout the US and is getting worse. In this episode, we speak to Dr. Anika Alvanzo, an addiction medicine physician and Eastern Medical Director of Pyramid Health Care, about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the opioid epidemic, and more importantly, what needs to be done to address it.

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs. 

A COVID-19 vaccine is on the horizon and a new Administration is on the way. With a wave of COVID-19 infections plaguing the country, questions on what needs to be done in the coming months to save lives are at the forefront of national conversations. Dr. Georges Benjamin, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association and Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University, discusses the critical next steps our country needs to make to conquer this pandemic. 

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs.

 

COVID-19 is surging in the United States. States are setting single-day COVID records and hospitals in some places are at capacity, bordering on record admittances. In this episode, we have a follow-up appointment with Dr. Leana Wen, who served as the Health Commissioner for the City of Baltimore and is a visiting professor of health policy and management at GWSPH, to discuss the current state of affairs of the COVID crisis and how we, as a nation, can move forward and save lives. 

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs. 

 

 

During this pandemic, sitting at home and watching tv can be considered good public health practice, but is it really healthy? Many experts have voiced concern about weight gain and loss of activity during this time of quarantine. Dr. Loretta DiPietro, a professor in the Department of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at the GWSPH, discusses current trends in physical activity during this pandemic and how the need for people to move more and sit less. 

Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs.