The topic of this episode is the opioid epidemic in the United States. We talk with Colin Planalp from SHADAC (State Health Access Data Assistance Center) based at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Victor Sandler, a physician boarded in palliative care at Fairview Home Care and Hospice in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The topic of this episode is measles and other vaccine preventable disease outbreaks. We talk with Kris Ehresmann, Director of Infectious Disease at the Minnesota Department of Health and Maria Sundaram, a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University through an NIH fellowship on vaccinology.

Welcome to Perspectives, a podcast by the Public Health Review. This is a brief introduction to our podcast, and we encourage you to check out our other episodes and our recent publications at z.umn.edu/pubhealthreview!