The HPP Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Keon Gilbert is in conversation with Dr. Darrell Hudson. Dr. Hudson's research aims to better understand why Black Americans do not get the same health returns that are associated with upward social mobility as White Americans. They help distinguish between historical and contemporary racism, and they also unpack hyper-vigilance and the anticipatory stress and expectations that come from negative racist experiences. They encourage us to think about the permanence of racism and its impact on stress and wealth.

This episode references the article titled "Tips for Navigating the Academic Job Market" by Darrell Hudson, PhD, MPH and "Understanding the Impact of Contemporary Racism on the Mental Health of Middle Class Black Americans" by Darrell Hudson, Akilah Collins-Anderson and William Hutson.

In this episode, Liana Schreiber and Alex Groten discuss a pilot intervention in which public health practitioners provided technical assistance to managers/owners of small food retail stores in Minnesota in order to increase healthy options through a variety of strategies including minimum stocking standards. They help shift the perception that health departments' only function is to regulate the food retail space; public health can be a supportive, helpful partner to food retailers when co-creating an action plan on how to improve community health. Due to the partnerships and evaluation success, two of the stores were able to receive larger scale infrastructure grants.

This episode references the article titled "Technical Assistance From Public Health Practitioners to Small Food Retailers to Implement Minimum Stocking Standards" by Liana Schreiber, MPH, RDN, Teresa Rondeau-Ambroz, MPH, RDN, Susan Bishop, BFA, and Ann Zukoski, DrPH, MPH.

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of The HPP Podcast. Read and follow along with this reading of "⁠Mourning (Like Lava): On Returning to the Last Place She Was Alive⁠" by Jessica Grant-Domond by viewing the Supplemental Material associated with the article.

With our July 2022 issue, Health Promotion Practice is proud to introduce a new, regular section of our journal, entitled “Poetry for the Public’s Health.” The section has been imagined, curated, and brought to life by Shanae Burch, LeConte Dill, and Ryan Petteway - all 3 poets, scholars, and members of the HPP Editorial Board. You can access the poems from the HPP website, but you can also listen to many of the poems in the poets’ own voices in this ever-growing series of bonus episodes. Follow us on Twitter @the HPPJournal so you know when new poems have posted, and enjoy this gift of Poetry for the Public’s Health.

In this episode, Shanaé Burch is in conversation with Jessica Grant-Domond about her poem in last year's November issue in the Poetry for the Public's Health section. They discuss her path to community psychology, poems that have inspired her, and processing grief among systems of oppression and through a variety of lenses. They invite us to this dream space where poetry gives breath.

This episode references the poem titled "Mourning (Like Lava): On Returning to the Last Place She Was Alive" by Jessica Grant-Domond, MA. You can listen to her read the poem as a bonus episode of the HPP Podcast.

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"There's no single discipline that's gonna be able to really understand how structures and systems have been created to produce racial inequality in this country... Interdisciplinary collaboration is key to this work, particularly if we are focused on identifying and dismantling systemic racism."

In this episode, Dr. Keon Gilbert is in conversation with Dr. Brian Smedley, the Study Director at the Institute of Medicine for the landmark report entitled “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care." Twenty years later, they reflect back on the paper as a beacon for HPP's “What is Antiracism in Health Promotion Practice?” series. Dr. Smedley calls for robust, comprehensive data collection, monitoring, and public reporting in order to monitor for access, quality of care, and outcomes of care. They also discuss the reallocation of healthcare resources and centering of community voices in the redesigning of these systems.

Other recently published papers in HPP’s What is Anti-Racism in Health Promotion Practice series: 

Today we will be replaying a classic episode from our first season in preparation for SOPHE's 2023 Annual Conference where they will be announcing this year’s Sarah Mazelis Paper of the Year Award. Last year’s winner was Dr. Petteway’s paper “Poetry as Praxis + “Illumination”: Toward an Epistemically Just Health Promotion for Resistance, Healing, and (Re)Imagination.” The year prior, Dr. Katherine Kim and colleagues won with their paper “Native American Youth Citizen Scientists Uncovering Community Health and Food Security Priorities.” Replaying Dr. Kim’s episode (which was our 11th episode!) is particularly special to me, because I get the pleasure of sharing and reminiscing about this paper with you all during Women’s History Month. We can’t wait to unveil this year’s paper of the year, so for now, enjoy!

In this episode, Dr. Sara Baumann and Dr. Jessica Burke help us reflect back on the last three years of COVID. They talk about their mental health research, the adaptations that their project underwent due to COVID restrictions, and the visual art gallery that emerged. They juxtaposed a few moments from films, which can be watched at http://www.collaborativefilmmaking.com/. They remind us that one of the benefits of collaborative filmmaking is the ability to use the films for advocacy or awareness raising purposes.

This episode references the article titled "Creating Community During COVID-19: A Virtual Art Gallery to Address Social Isolation During a Pandemic" by Sara E. Baumann, PhD, MPH and Jessica G. Burke, PhD, MHS. It also mentions "Visualizing Mental Health Through the Lens of Pittsburgh Youth: A Collaborative Filmmaking Study During COVID-19" by Sara E. Baumann, PhD, Brayden N. Kameg, DNP, Christopher T. Wiltrout, MPH, Deborah Murdoch, MPH, Lindsay Pelcher, MPH, and Jessica G. Burke, PhD and "Exploring Community Art and Its Role in Promoting Health, Social Cohesion, and Community Resilience in the Aftermath of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake" by Sara E. Baumann, PhD, MPH, Monica M. Merante, BPhil, Marie-Ange Sylvain-Holmgren, BA, and Jessica G. Burke, PhD, MHS.

Use these links to check out the visual art gallery:

In this episode, Dr. LaNita S. Wright is in conversation with coauthors Dr. Juliet Iwelunmor and Dr. Jeanetta D. Sims about their paper in HPP's What Is Antiracism in Health Promotion Practice? series. They reflect on the finished product with feelings of openness, illumination, and value. They used Relational Dialectics to frame this piece and to help unpack their experiences as Black women in academia, accounting for multiple, often opposing, sides of the spectrum without having to resolve or reconcile or even to offer expansive recommendations about what to do with structures that were not built for them and may be still perpetuating injustices. They also note that letters can be used to heal, letters can be used to name, letters can be used to dismantle, and letters can be used to address.

This episode references the article titled "Dear Health Promotion Scholar: Letters of Life From, for, and About Black Women in Academia" by LaNita S. Wright, PhD, Juliet Iwelunmor, PhD, and Jeanetta D. Sims, PhD.