“We found that there was kind of a nuanced perspective on statistics.” – Susan Racine Passmore

This August, The HPP Podcast celebrates National Immunization Awareness Month! Susan Racine Passmore joins The HPP Podcast to share her research team’s work to advance vaccine uptake among pediatric populations in rural Wisconsin. The author provides the foundational background for the work, discusses how focus groups and co-design processes were utilized to develop and tailor messages, and highlights the importance of incorporating community partners into this crucial work. She delves into how theory guided the research and provides practical tips for engaging with rural communities surrounding pediatric vaccine uptake.

Engage more with this work! Read the article at: Co-Designing Effective Pediatric Vaccine Promotion Strategies: Insights From Rural Wisconsin Parents.

“I think our biggest hope, I know in writing this paper, was that people will understand that accessibility is more than a compliance issue. It's more than checklist at the end of your training development; that this is a human rights issue, this is the civil rights issue, and we need a mindset shift from compliance and from making individual accommodations and feeling like almost like, oh, we're doing that person a favor by accommodating them to totally shift that thinking to creatingaccessible, equitable environments where people can thrive and learn.” – Leah A. Roman

The HPP Podcasts celebrates Disability Pride Month! Leah A. Roman and Nailah Henry join us to celebrate this observance through the lens of civic health equity. The authors provide the context for voting and civic health equity, the barriers to civic engagement for people living with disabilities, and practical tips for public health professionals to take actionable steps to make voting and other acts of civic engagement more inclusive. They also share how current policies impact people living with disabilities’ ability to navigate civic engagement, and what recommendations make it easier.

To read this article in its entirety, visit: AdvancingAccessibility to Improve Civic Health Equity.

Review the Americans withDisabilities Act (ADA), Title II updated digital accessibility rule and compliance dates. Like the rest of Title II, the rule applies to all state and local governments (which includes any agencies or departments of state or local governments). Examples include State and local government offices thatprovide benefits and/or social services, like food assistance, health insurance, or employment services, public schools, community colleges, and public universities, State and local elections offices, and public hospitals and public healthcare clinics.

Visit the Center forAmerican Progress Accessible Democracy Tracker.

“Pay attention to your community. Always look at them asyour big boss. You've got to make sure that they understand what it is you're trying to communicate, and ultimately, they're the ones you are serving.” Adriane K. Griffen

The HPP Podcast continues its celebration of DisabilityPride Month! In this episode, Dr. Adriane K. Griffen shares updates on her Inclusion Wheel of Factors and Conditions to Include People With Disabilities in Public Health Efforts, and where she is in evaluating its utility. She shares the applicability of the Inclusion Wheel to professional practice and its potential to improve the lives of people living with visible and invisible disabilities.  

Read the article in its entirety at ⁠https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248399211070809⁠.

“When our patients delay getting care, it can really lead to worse health outcomes down the line, so it has had a myriad of very positive impacts on many different veterans' lives.” – Sylvia V. Haigh

The HPP Podcasts celebrates Pride Month with Syliva V. Haigh. In this episode, Sylvia shares how the Pride In All Who Served (PRIDE) was implemented and scaled up to serve 70 Veterans Administration Medical Centers in the United States of America. Sylvia provides the context for the program and the impact of the program on veterans’ wellbeing and quality of life. She also shares the significance of this work in the context of Pride Month.

To read this article in its entirety, visit:Adaptation of the PRIDE in All Who Served Facilitation Manual to Support Scale-Up of a Novel Program for LGBTQIA+ Veterans.

“What we're experiencing is not naturally occurring. It is produced. And if it is produced, it can be interrupted. And that, I think, requires us to just be honest about what is producing them.” – Carrie Rosario

The HPP Podcasts celebrates the 2025 Sarah Mazelis Paper of the Year award winner, Dr. Carrie Rosario! In this episode, Dr. Rosario sits down with Dr. Shanaé Burch to discuss the context, significance, and implications of the poem she published in Health Promotion Practice. She discusses how Black American culture emerges in her work, and she even recites an excerpt from the poem to add color to the black and white on the paper. Of note, this is the first poem to be recognized as a Sara Mazelis Paper of the Year.

On behalf of The HPP Podcast and Health Promotion Practice, we pause to celebrate and elevate the contributions of Dr. Carrie Rosario to the health promotion literature! We congratulate her on this milestone achievement and look forward to seeing how lives are transformed as a result of her actions!

To read this profound work, visit:  Public Enemy #1: How Many More?

Everyone has a role to play in helping deliver formal or informal concussion education and influence athletes' willingness to report a concussion.” Julia D. Drattell

The HPP Podcast observes National Concussion Awareness Day! On this episode of The HPP Podcast, Julia D. Drattellshares information about the current landscape of concussion education as discussed in the article, “Concussion as a Public Health Crisis: Multilevel Approaches for Improving Athlete Care-Seeking.” She incorporates the statistics, describes who is affected, and provides the implications forathletic trainers and health educators. Furthermore, she discusses the culture surrounding concussions socially, environmentally, and politically.

Visit the following link to read the entire article:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/15248399251363166

“We try to frame our results in a way that shows youth cannot only identify the things that are happening in their lives, but they also have the power and knowledge, and they have the tools within them to be able to start addressing these issues.”

In this episode, Saharra L. Dixon the use of photovoice andcommunity mapping to examine structural violence’s impact on historically excluded youth’s lived experiences. Using an Arts and Cultural in Public Health framework, she analyzes ways in which structural racism functions as contributes to adolescent sexual and reproductive health inequities.

This episode references the article “⁠Stacked Up Against Us: Using Photovoice and Participatory Methods to Explore Structural Racism’s Impact on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Inequities⁠” by Saharra L. Dixon.

“As a creator myself, I experience a lot of criticism from people about how academics and physicians shouldn't be on socialmedia. I think the takeaway from this is that we should be on social media to balance some of this information and to provide really good evidence-based information for people.”

– Emily J. Pfender

Dr. Emily J. Pfender joins The HPP Podcast in observance of Women’s History Month to discuss her recent study, whichfocuses on pap smear content shared on TikTok. She shares the key findings and highlights some of the racial disparities seen in her analysis. This episode emphasizes messaging and the proactive measures that can be taken to prevent cervicalcancer.  

To read the full article, visit:  Social Media Screening: Racial Disparities in Pap Smear Content on TikTok.

“It's all about paying it forward. It's about recognizing the mentors I had and now the mentorship that I'm providingto my students. They are the next generation of health educators, right? So, I want to make sure that they're getting the guidance that I received but amplified.” - Alvin Tran

On this episode of The HPP Podcast, Dr. Alvin Tran shares his reflections on his experience with bringing students tothe SOPHE 2025 Annual Conference. He shares his role as a mentor, what the conference meant to his students, and insights for first-time attendees. This episode highlights the mutual benefits of faculty-student relationships and underscores the importance of reaching back to elevate students through conference experiences.  

To read the article in its entirety, visit: First Steps, Lasting Impact: Reflections on Faculty-Student Mentorship at SOPHE 2025.

“The reality is that there are power differentials between a student, a junior scholar and a full professor, or between a medical assistant, a patient, and a physician. But recognizing those power dynamics, if you are in a position of power, really using your privilege, your position as a gatekeeper to speak up and intervene or to give platform to folks that may have less access to power to intervene.”-Khadijah Ameen

Drs. Khadijah Ameen and Collins Airhihenbuwa share their work on how to expand how we think about bystandersand perpetrators of racial violence, and how bystander behavioral approaches can be used to intervene. They bring in antiracism frameworks such as the Public Health Critical Race Praxis and the PEN-3 Cultural Model to illustrate their points using some antiracism bystander intervention scenarios.

This episode references the article “Expanding Bystander Behavioral Approaches to Address Racial Violence in Health Research, Pedagogy, and Practice” by Khadijah Ameen and Collins Airhihenbuwa.