Preventing Chronic Disease

Listen as Camille Kroll, winner of PCD's 2023 Student Paper Contest in the master's category, talks about her article entitled, "An Exploratory Qualitative Analysis of Explanations for COVID-19-Related Racial Disparities Among St. Louis Residents: ‘I Don't Really Pay Attention to the Racial Stuff Very Much.'"

Join us as we talk with Dr. Jeff Hall from CDC's Office of Health Equity and Dr. Ebony Boulware from Wake Forest University School of Medicine about impact racism can heave on health.

Join us as we talk with Charles Wang, winner of PCD's Student Research Paper Contest in the high school category. He joins PCD to discuss his winning paper, which examines the association between physical activity and sedentary behavior with depression among high school students.

Join us as we talk with Wade Creech, winner of PCD's Student Research Paper Contest in the undergraduate category. He joins PCD to discuss his winning paper, which examines the benefits and barriers to engaging in physical activity among adults living in rural North Carolina communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Join us as we talk with Brendan Seto, third-year medical student at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii, about racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations which may be hidden by race and/or ethnicity misclassification.

Listen as we talk with Marisa Schulz, winner of PCD's 2022 Student Research Paper Contest in the masters category, about breast cancer incidence and mortality rates in South Dakota and how sociodemographic measures were used to predict those rates.

Listen as Dr. Jeremy Mennis from the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University; Dr. Kevin Matthews from CDC's Office of the Associate Director for Policy and Strategy; and Dr. Sara Huston from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine share with us how PCD's collection on GIS and COVID-19 highlights the important role GIS and technology plays in understanding the social and environmental determinants of health that cause inequities in infectious and chronic disease risk factors.

Join us as we talk with Dr. Lisa Richardson, Division Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at CDC, and Dr. Zhen-Qiang (Marshal) Ma, Senior Chronic Disease Epidemiologist and Division Director at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, about PCD's latest collection on cancer screening and prevention and the importance of the research included within.

Listen as Thomas Lawrence from the Urban Indian Health Institute and Dr. Diana Redwood from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium discuss the CDC's Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country collection and the importance of the research included within.

Listen as Edward Hu, winner of PCD's 2018 Student Research Paper Contest in the high school category, talks about his recently published research, which looks at obesity among high school students in the United States.