The HPP Podcast

"The idea of restoring balance is not new. It's a cultural tenant of the communities that we were working with. It's really important to have balance within oneself, with nature, and with the world. We wanted to help to restore balance because cancer diagnosis and treatment can really pull someone out of balance in all of those regards."

In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Bea, Brenda Charley, and Denise McClellan discuss how they adapted a Navajo cancer survivor physical activity intervention to serve a broader Native American cancer survivor community. They reiterate the importance of listening to the community, unpack lessons learned, and share the benefits of the program for participants, their families, and the trainers.

This episode references the article titled "Formative evaluation and adaptation of a Navajo cancer survivor physical activity intervention to serve a broader Native American cancer survivor community."

This episode is a replay of S1 Ep. 11, which features Native voices in anticipation of HPP's 5th Annual Native and Indigenous Voices Collection. Dr. Katherine Kim talks through her paper on youth citizen science that won Health Promotion Practice's Paper of the Year for 2020. She was joined by Ashley Michael, one of the youth leaders, and Lisa Morehead-Hillman, a manager in the Tribe’s Department of Natural Resources. They discussed how Tribes are uniquely posed to address their own food insecurity issues in ways that are empowering and healthy, as well as the importance of empowering youth.

This episode references the article titled "Native American Youth Citizen Scientists Uncovering Community Health and Food Security Priorities" by Katherine K. Kim, PhD, MPH, MBA, Victoria Ngo, BA, Grant Gilkison, BA, Lisa Hillman, MA, Jennifer Sowerwine, PhD, and Karuk Youth Leaders. This paper is free to download!

"What we're trying to create here is having creatives and communities of color and people from the margin speak for themselves, to themselves, right? Instead of having to speak through a researcher or to speak to a research audience. They can speak for themselves, to their own communities, to their own people... A big part of our section is, how this work translates into pedagogy and into and outside of classrooms... I wish that people knew that this was possible in the academy, let alone outside."

In this episode, we explore the poetry collection and ongoing space for poetry in HPP with Shanaé Burch, LeConté Dill, and Ryan Petteway, the three Associate Editors for our new section “Poetry for the Public’s Health.” They remind us that poetry demands to belong in academic spaces, and encourage poets to submit writing to the open call. Enjoy the July 2022 debut of the Poetry section that featured the work of six poets.

"We want to have a dialogue about developing the capacity to grapple with political dysfunction. We need to be able to win political battles in order to save lives."

In this episode, Dr. Marcus Cheatham, Dr. Heidi Hancher-Rauch, Dr. Jodi Brookins-Fisher, Dr. Alexis Blavos, and Dr. Amy Thompson help us explore how the current political landscape has led to a poor national response to the pandemic. They remind us that public health professionals have a role to play as advocates, and they help us understand the matrix used in their commentary space.

This episode references the article titled "Politics Spread COVID: Developing a Public Health Response" by Marcus Cheatham, PhD, Heidi Hancher-Rauch, PhD, Jodi Brookins-Fisher, PhD, Alexis Blavos, PhD, and Amy Thompson, PhD.

“So we have created a public health crisis by not designing systems that will last or systems that will work.”

This episode features Catherine Flowers, author of Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret, as well as Dr. Antonio Gardner and Dr. Ashley White Jones, authors of Using an HIV Disclosure Model to Slow the Spread of COVID-19. In honor of Black History Month, they discuss environmental justice in Black communities. They focus on the Black Church's role in emergency preparedness, water and sanitation, and their roles as advocates.

In this episode, Dr. Suzanne Grossman, Dr. Noah Lenstra, and Dr. Renée Umstattd Meyer discuss how libraries are an underutilized resource for supporting public health in communities. They emphasize the need for partnerships and hope that public health continues to generate excitement for public libraries.

This episode references the article titled "How Public Libraries Help Immigrants Adjust to Life in a New Country: A Review of the Literature" by Suzanne Grossman, DrPH, Denise E. Agosto, PhD, Mark Winston, PhD, Rabbi Nancy E. Epstein, MPH, MAHL, Carolyn C. Cannuscio, ScD, Ana Martinez-Donate, PhD, and Ann C. Klassen, PhD. This episode also references the article titled "Rural Libraries as Resources and Partners for Outside Active Play Streets" by Noah Lenstra, PhD, Sandra Slater, PhD, Keshia M. Pollack Porter, PhD, and M. Renée Umstattd Meyer, PhD. Also, find out more about implementation in the Rural Play Streets Guide.

In this episode, Dr. AnnaMarie O’Neill and Dr. Joie Acosta discuss the need for sexual assault prevention and the utility of their adapted tool for individuals and teams. They explain the need for a paradigm shift with a greater emphasis on prevention, especially in the military and colleges.

This episode references the article titled "Development and Pilot Test of the Competency Assessment for Sexual Assault Prevention Practitioners" by AnnaMarie S. O’Neill, Joie D. Acosta, Matthew Chinman, Andra L. Tharp, and Beverly L. Fortson.

"The community health worker is under utilized, and yet can be the best glue across that continuum"

In this episode, Ysabel Duron and Dr. Manali Patel discuss the importance of community health workers (CHWs) in cancer care delivery. They talk about the unique capacity of CHW to identify the actual gaps and actual needs of patients to support and work in tandem with doctors.

This episode references the article titled "A Community-Engaged Process for Adapting a Proven Community Health Worker Model to Integrate Precision Cancer Care Delivery for Low-income Latinx Adults With Cancer" by Emily H. Wood, MPH, Maria Leach, MSW, Gerardo Villicana, BA, Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD, MPH, Ysabel Duron, BS, Dale G. O’Brien, MD, Zachary Koontz, MD, and Manali I. Patel, MD, MPH, MS.

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of The HPP Podcast. Read and follow along with this reading of "Black & Mild: A Tutorial, After the CDC" by Ryan J. Petteway, DrPH, MPH 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.

Hello and welcome to this bonus episode of The HPP Podcast. Read and follow along with this reading of "Stress Test" by Shanaé Burch, EdM 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.