Happy New Year from the team at What in the Health! To start off 2023, we interviewed Dr. Angela Fusaro, an emergency medicine physician and co-founder of the telemedicine platform Physician 360. We discuss how telehealth works, how it affects patient-physician interactions, and its role in the future of healthcare, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode, we interviewed Dr. Raegan McDonald-Mosley, an OB-GYN physician, the former CMO of Planned Parenthood, and the current CEO of Power to Decide, about what reproductive justice is and how it originated. We apply these foundations to discuss the future of abortion, family planning, and reproductive justice since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. 

In this episode, we invited Dr. Patty Mechael, a public health specialist and the author of several health/tech publications and the middle grade fiction novel The Antidotes Pollution Solution, to speak about the values of storytelling in the field of public health. We discuss the key roles of storytelling in humanizing public health issues and how the average person can share their own stories and experiences with health.

Welcome to our first Editor’s Note, where we go off the script to make a big announcement about our co-host, Eric. We look back at our podcasting experience so far, what we’ve learned, and our goals for the future.

We had a conversation with Dr. Beth McGinty, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about what a substance use disorder is and how it can affect the lives of young adults. We hope that this episode informs you about the connections between mental health and policy surrounding substance use, and gives you tips for what to do when you or a friend is struggling with substance use.

In this episode, we interviewed Dr. Bob Johnston, an Assistant Professor and researcher of the JHU Department of Biology, about the challenges of comprehending medical/public health research and the impacts of health misinformation from social media. We hope that our discussion raises awareness of potential roadblocks when finding credible sources and gives you helpful tips when you do your own health research.

In this episode, we talked with Dr. Megan Latshaw, an Associate Scientist in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at JHU’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, about what environmental health means and how it impacts our daily lives. We hope that this episode informs you about current environmental health crises and what can be done to advocate for change.

In this episode, we talked with Dr. Kathryn McDonald, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. We discuss the impact of visible factors, such as race, age, and sex, on medical diagnoses. We also explore the challenges of the patient-physician interaction and how we can advocate for ourselves in a healthcare setting.

In this episode, we talked with Will Nation, a Doctoral Intern at the Johns Hopkins Counseling Center, about common mental health issues prevalent on college campuses and what we can do to alleviate stress.

Welcome to our first episode! Here we discuss the impact that COVID-19 had on college students across the US with students from UMich and UGA, along with Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonary critical care physician from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.