Public Health Futures

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Sophia Hussen about community-engaged research, working with young Black gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men on HIV care outcomes and general well-being, and how working as a doctor in the clinic informs her public health perspectives and ability to do engaged research. Dr. Hussen is an associate professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She also has a secondary faculty appointment in the Division of Infectious Diseases, in the Department of Medicine of the School of Medicine; and she is a faculty physician at Grady Memorial Hospital and the Grady Infectious Disease Program. She earned an AB at Harvard University, an MPH from the University of Michigan, and an MD from the University of Pennsylvania.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Selin Caglar about her experience working as the doctor for Henry County jail; we discuss how to organize one's workflow when one is the only doctor for 800 detainees, issues of safety and the surprising opportunities of working in a jail, and how medical students should do a rotation in a jail.

In this epsiode we talk with Dr. Anwar Osborne about medical education, working with students, jail and prison healthcare, a "bill of rights" for incarcerated patients, the emotional toll of practicing medicine, and stand-up comedy.

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Carlos Faerron Guzmán, a Costa Rican public and global health expert, about: the "global South" concept and the relationship of income inequality between countries and within countries; and how the experience of doctors in school and in the clinic can be reconciled with big-picture perspectives on the social determinants of health and structural inequities; and other important topics! Enjoy!

In this introductory episode co-hosts Steven Black and Jenna Eason introduce themselves, their backgrounds and interests in public and global health, and the motivation for creating the Public Health Futures podcast.