Our Stories, Our World: A community-driven podcast series

S1:E6 Public Health in Chicago with Shyam Prabhakaran


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In our sixth and final episode, we once again focus on Public Health. This episode features Dr. Shyam Prabhakaran in conversation with interviewer Daniel Animashaun. The neurologist and health researcher shared a screenshot of a virtual meeting of the Chicago Community, Media & Research Partnership (CCMRP) that took place during the first month of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, the partnership of community leaders, community media journalists, and community-engaged health researchers was just a few months into a two-year project dedicated to making health research more accessible through community media. Looking at this photo, Prabhakaran sees a group of people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences who came together with a common goal: improving health equity. That diversity, he said, is essential to his work in public health—and to finding creative and impactful solutions to the problems we face throughout our society.
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