Viral

Viral

By Linsey Grove & Megan AlbertsonSociety & CultureScienceSocial Sciences
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Viral episodes

  • Episode 003 – About Us
    Old mold!  Getting into public health is less of a calling and more of a stumbling-into-and-finding-it.  We talk about how we ended up in public health.

    Later, we talk to Dr. Donna Petersen, Dean of the College of Public Health, Associate Vice President of USF Health, interim Dean of the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida about her work in Framing the Future and the public health workforce.

    Edited and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist. James Schultz is our technical wizard. For more info, visit viral-pod.com and check us out on Twitter @viralpodcast.

    Hey! We are on iTunes and GooglePlay now! Subscribe to join us on this weird gross journey as we try to understand the history of diseases and what people do today to keep us healthy.

    Intro/outro music: "Take Your Medicine" by the Quick and Easy Boys
    45 min
  • Episode 2 - Public Health & Propaganda

    Loose lips sink ships (and try not to get syphilis): when altruism meets artillery.

    Part one of today's episode of Viral is about public health and propaganda. Later, we talk to Jennifer Wright, author of the new book "Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them."

    Edited and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist. James Schultz is our technical wizard. For more info, visit viral-pod.com and check us out on Twitter @viralpodcast.

    Hey! We are on iTunes and GooglePlay now! Subscribe to join us on this weird gross journey as we try to understand the history of diseases and what people do today to keep us healthy.

    Intro/outro music: "Take Your Medicine" by the Quick and Easy Boys

    46 min
  • Episode 002: Public Health & Propaganda
    Loose lips sink ships (and try not to get syphilis): when altruism meets artillery.

    Part one of today's episode of Viral is about public health and propaganda. Later, we talk to Jennifer Wright, author of the new book "Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them."

    Edited and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist. James Schultz is our technical wizard. For more info, visit viral-pod.com and check us out on Twitter @viralpodcast.

    Hey! We are on iTunes and GooglePlay now! Subscribe to join us on this weird gross journey as we try to understand the history of diseases and what people do today to keep us healthy.

    Intro/outro music: "Take Your Medicine" by the Quick and Easy Boys
    46 min
  • Intro Episode

    Public health is all around us, yet difficult to describe. Most people have little-to-no idea what we do (including our parents). This podcast is a heartfelt – and probably half-baked – attempt to understand public health through history, humor, and stories from professionals in the field. Our mission is to create a cozy corner for public health nerds to listen and laugh with us as we try to describe a field that is constantly changing and adapting. Welcome to Viral.

    3 min
  • Episode 001 – Public Health & Superstition
    Here it is - the first episode of Viral! Today we talk about public health and superstition. Our guest is Dr. Alfredo Morabia, a Swiss doctor and epidemiologist who also serves as editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH). He also has his own podcast about each issue of AJPH!

    Edited and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist. For more info, visit viral-pod.com and check us out on Twitter @viralpodcast.

    Intro/outro music: "Take Your Medicine" by the Quick and Easy Boys
    47 min
  • Intro Episode
    Show Notes:

    Public health is all around us, yet difficult to describe. Most people have little-to-no idea what we do (including our parents). This podcast is a heartfelt - and probably half-baked - attempt to understand public health through history, humor, and stories from professionals in the field. Our mission is to create a cozy corner for public health nerds to listen and laugh with us as we try to describe a field that is constantly changing and adapting. Welcome to Viral.

    My name is Linsey Grove. I’m the owner and Chief Creative Officer of eunoia Media Lab, a graphic/web design and social marketing firm that specializes in public health and nonprofits. I’m also a giant nerd who loves space, cats, and sexual health.

    My name is Quinn Lundquist. I am a former public health policy fellow from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and currently work at the Florida Department of Health.

    On this show, we will have guests that include epidemiologists, veterinarians, historians, health communications specialists, policy experts, and more. The world of public health is so diverse and so woven into the fabric of society that we barely know it exists unless something goes wrong.

    What is an epidemic? What is a risk factor?

    How do we tell bogus studies apart from real ones? (Wait, you’re saying that if I eat a chocolate bar every day...I won’t live to 100?)

    What are health systems like in other countries?

    Who invented the vaccine? Why don’t we hear about smallpox anymore?

    We take for granted the fact that 100 years ago, way more people died of infectious diseases than they do today. We take for granted that child labor laws and seatbelt laws saved countless little fingers from getting lopped off in machinery and people flying through windshields. We don’t notice how water fluoridation has prevented cavities and tooth infections, or how different forms of contraception and birth control has existed in various forms since Roman times. There’s a lot out there, while we don’t expect to cover everything, hopefully we can spark your interest in this field that we love and help foster the next generation of public health nerds out there.

    Every week I like to end things with a piece of public health-related trivia. Approximately 620,000 people died during the American Civil War. Two-thirds of them died from disease, not in battle.
    3 min

About Viral

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Viral is a public health podcast for both public health nerds and the general public started by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist and hosted by Linsey and Megan Albertson. Public health consists of…

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