American Journal Of Public Health Podcast

Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) and Alfredo Morabia (EIC of AJPH) interview Prof Anne Case, from Princeton University and author with Prof Angus Deaton, of "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism." Prof Case argues that understanding the relationship in the US between educational attainment and poor social and economic outcomes may greatly add to our ability to make sense of the mortality landscape that we face.

Fatal overdoses seem to double within 6-min walk of drug arrests. Do drug busts increase overdose deaths? New study from Indianapolis suggests it might double the risk. Do America’s drug policy policymakers need to reconsider the priority given to police drug seizures cannot as opposed to harm reduction. Alfredo Morabia and Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) discuss these issues with Prof. Brandon del Pozo (Brown University), Lisa Daugaard, Co-Executive Director/Purpose Dignity Action (Seattle, WS) and Dr Nabarun Dasgupta (U North Carolina)

With our two guests, Vickie Mays and I discuss the concerning decline in life expectancy in the United States compared to other countries with Prof. Steven H. Woolf (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Prof. Lauren Gaydosh (University of Texas at Austin). Why is life expectancy an important public health measure? What causes the decline? Why are so many other countries doing better than the US? What are the main recommendations to stop the decline?

2023P4 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the June to September 2023 Issues. The Editor’s Corner features a new publication in AJPH (September 2023) and a commentary by Dr. Hui Wang, Dean and Distinguished Professor of the School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

Population-based monitoring of COVID-19 infections has dramatically being absent in most populations on the planet. However, the Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) was one of the rare exceptions. With Prof Paul Elliott, principal investigator of REACT @ Imperial College, London and Prof Natalie E Dean @ Emory University, Atlanta, we review how REACT was done, what it did, and in how much it could serve as an example for the US. Moderators are: Alfredo Morabia @ AJPH and Prof Vickie Mays @ UCLA.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected health care and other essential workers more than other groups in the US, but can we quantify the damage? To what extent did it aggravate the inequities that were prevalent before the pandemic? What should public health do better next time to both prevent some harm and monitor the harm that cannot be prevented? Alfredo Morabia (AJPH) and Vickie Mays (UCLA) discuss these issues with J. Paul Leigh, PhD (UC Davis Medical School, CA); Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot, PhD, Columbia University, NY; and Adam Gaffney, M. D., M. P. H., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

2023P3 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the March to June 2023 Issues. The Editor’s Corner features new publications in AJPH (May & June 2023). Dr. Yueqi Yan, a professor from the University of California, Merced provided an overview of the substance use among Asian Americans from 2016-2020. In the second podcast, our podcaster Guo Pengfei synthesized the methods in population monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 infection via random sampling during the COVID-19 pandemic. You are welcome to read full papers at AJPH.

This week Vickie Mays and I discuss with Michael Fraser Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and Brent Ewig, Chief Policy and Government Relations Officer, Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) about their new book: “Vaccinating America: The Inside Story Behind the Race to Save Lives and End a Pandemic”

2023P2 Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the December 2022 to February 2023 Issues, Supplement 9 of 2022, and Supplement 1 of 2023. The Editor’s Corner features two articles published in AJPH (January 2023, December 2022). Miss Xueqing Liu, a doctoral student in Biostatistics from Duke-NUS Medical school provided an overview of recent developments in employing SMARTs in constructing effective adaptive interventions to control infectious diseases. In the second podcast, Miss Fanzhen Mao from Jiangsu Institute of Parasite Diseases reported the effects of behavioral change communication-based interventions in reducing pinworm infection among preschool children in China. Welcome to read the full articles in AJPH.

With Bibhas Chakraborty, Duke-NUS Medical School, and Nick Seewald, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, we discuss current limitations for public health of the classical way of conducting RCTs, give examples of these limitations, and explain why sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trials (SMARTs) and microrandomized trials (MRTs)help overcoming these limitations.

Guests: Dr Georges Benjamin (APHA) and Dr Richard Besser (RWJF) Moderators: Alfredo Morabia and Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) We discuss the state of public health after 3 years of pandemic, what are the challenges ahead, and the role of the APHA to help addressing these challenges

The theme of the meeting this year is diversity equity and inclusion in all policies. Panelists are from a different public health action domains This year's Prime Ministers were Osprey Orielle Lake, Roishetta Ozane, and Monique Verdin from the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). The panelists were Adam Kader, Allison Berry, Thomas LaVeist, Michael E. Bird, and Osprey Orielle Lake.

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the September to November issues and Supplement 7 to 8 of 2022. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. “Jim” Jun Zhang, K. C. Wong Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Deputy Director, Institute of Early Life Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Dr. Zhang commented on a research article published on AJPH’s October Supplement 8 about the breastfeeding practices among people infected by SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With my guests, Profs Chenoa D. Allen and Daniel P. Miller, we review the practical health-damaging consequences of the threats of denying naturalization to immigrants receiving public health benefits. The reality is that many immigrants are not at risk if they benefit from SNAP or Medicaid, but don't seem to be aware of it, as my guests explain. The December issue of AJPH is here: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/current.

Prof Chenjerai Kumanyika (NYU) introduces a podcast made under his supervision by Bradley Kramer, about the state obstacles to abortion, interviewing Prof Dovile Vilda (Tulane), who also spoke of her research at a previous AJPH podcast (youtu.be/_nDejLUGg_I).

With Professor Vickie Mays, UCLA, we explore what can be done to protect women who seek an abortion in places where bans have been implemented or are pending? Can local coalitions be built to prevent total bans? What resources are there for people in the affected states that cannot go to other states for abortions? Is there anything the federal government can do? Our guests are Drs Caitlin Gerdts, Ibis, Ushma Upadhyay, UCSF, and Diana Greene-Foster, UCSF.

2022P3 Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the June to August issues and Supplement 3 to 6 of 2022. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Jihong Liu, the new Associate Editor.

There was a legitimate outcry at the harassment public health officials in some states. What is the situation now and how important has been the support to health officers in the same areas? I discuss these issues with my guests, Valerie Yeager, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Fairbanks School of Public Health, Tom Quade, former County Health Commissioner, Geauga County, Ohio, and Beth Resnick - Senior Scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. A video is available here https://youtu.be/1gPxhTz8iIU

@AJPH Deputy Editor Farzana Kapadia interviews Dr Daniel Tarantola, who is an Associate Editor at @AJPH and a member of the WHO Monkeypox Emergency Committee about the threat represented by the epidemic of monkeypox and why it was not straightforward to devise a policy that protects some communities from being stigmatized, repressed and even murdered. A video version of the podcast can be seen on @AJPH youtube channel here: https://youtu.be/axEY9fhvCC0

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Stella Yu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the March to May issues and Supplement 2 of 2022. It also includes a feature on the Editor-in- Charge, Dr. Alfredo Morabia.