Best Public Health Sciences Unit Podcasts (2025)

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Ep. 119 Political Collaboration and Polarization with Scott Duxbury 1:07:28

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In this episode, we are speaking with Professor Scott Duxbury about his work on group politics and the sociology of punishment. Scott W. Duxbury is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research examines social networks, criminal law, mass incarceration, racism, public opinion, drug markets, and…

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NH #723: HOT! India/Pakistan Escalation of Hostilities Risks Nukes +cInside Nuclear Launch Command Chain w/Former Head of U.S. Strategic Command + IPPNW’s Ira Helfand at UN for NPT 59:42

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HOT! India/Pakistan Escalation of Hostilities Risks Nukes + Inside Nuclear Launch Command Chain w/Former Head of U.S. Strategic Command + IPPNW’s Ira Helfand at UN for NPT What you never want to see in your neighborhood… This Week’s Featured Interview: Gen. C. Robert Kehler, Ret., former Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, explains from inside…

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AJPH 5A/2025:"DEVELOPING A CENSUS TRACT LEVEL VISION NEED INDEX FOR THE UNITED STATES" (ENGLISH) 16:08

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Alfredo Morabia and Vickie Mays (UCLA), editors at the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) conducted an in-person interview of David Rein of the Atlanta Public Health Department focusing on improving vision and eye health using the CDC national Vision and Eye Health surveillance system to increase public awareness of affordable eye care.…

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The Lotus Clinical Supervision Model for Linguistically Marginalized International Trainees 29:21

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In this episode of The Counseling Psychologist podcast series, Drs. Taewon Kim, Yunkyoung Loh Garrison, and Xiang Zhou talk about the article recently published in TCP titled, "The Lotus Clinical Supervision Model for Linguistically Marginalized International Trainees."

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NH #722: CA AB 305 Tricks Public Out of Comments on Nuclear Legislation – Public Watchdogs Charles Langley, Nina Babiarz 59:24

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Pubic Watchdogs’ Nina Babiarz (l) and Charles Langley (r) This Week’s Featured Interview: Public Watchdogs Petition on AB 305: Numnutz of the Week (for Outstanding Nuclear Boneheadedness): DANCES WITH OPPENHEIMER – A pro-nuclear rave with Oppenheimer’s grandson to brainwash Gen- Z-ers into loving nuclear energy. They see absolutely no irony in danc…

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Can Microplastics Spread Killer Bacteria? 15:36

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Send us a text Plastic is everywhere. So are drug-resistant microbes. What happens when the two team up? A raft of new studies show that bacteria can grow well on plastics, especially on microplastics. Other studies show just how widespread microplastics are – they are found in every ocean and sea tested so far. The most startling studies show thes…

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Ep. 118 Immigration, Minority Threat, and Criminal Justice with Ashley Muchow 54:39

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Ashley Muchow is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research considers the causes and consequences of social inequality, with a particular focus on policing, immigration, and racial/ethnic disparities.By Jose Sanchez and Jenn Tostlebe

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NH #721: SPECIAL – NEW: Russian Drone Strike Damage to Containment + Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster at 39, Pt 2 – Survivor Kouneva, Dr. Janette Sherman, Mousseau, Yablokov 1:00:19

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Russian drone strike damage to the Chernobyl New Safe Containment buildingBy Libbe Halevy

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4.6 Impact of Universal Basic Income on mental health inequalities 16:11

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Ruth Dundas and Lia Demou speak to Rachel Thomson about her research evaluating the impacts of universal basic income on mental health inequalities. Rachel discusses why it is important to evaluate the impact of economic policies on health and why she used a microsimulation approach to do that. The paper mentioned in this podcast is: Thomson RM, Ko…

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4.5 Next generation: Public health of today and tomorrow 14:50

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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Ruth Dundas hears from four PhD students about the future of public health. The conversation is with Katja Kraljević, Danny Bradford, Kirsten Hainey and Diego Andrade about their perspectives on the future of public health as part of European Public Health Week 2024 and the daily theme, "Next ge…

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4.4 Inequalities in Childhood Overweight 16:51

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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce, Vittal Katikireddi and Phil Broadbent discuss their research on inequalities in childhood overweight as part of European Public Health Week 2024, to coincide with Thursday’s theme, “Health through the life course: Breaking down silos”. The papers discussed in this podcast are: Broad…

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4.3 Social and Environmental Determinants of Health Inequalities (SEDHI) 19:40

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As part of the Wednesday theme of European Public Health Week 2024 “Planetary health: a glocal approach”, Alastair Leyland from the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, talks to Natalia Romero, International University of Ecuador; Phil Cooper, St George’s University of London; and Mauricio Barreto and Gustavo Matta…

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4.2 Drug deaths and socio-economic trends in Scotland 15:42

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Trends in drug deaths and socio-economic determinants in Scotland: which age groups and birth cohorts are most effected? In this special episode, in honour of European Public Health Week’s theme “Health is a Political Choice”, Anna Pearce, Denise Brown and Emma Congreve discuss work, funded by the Health Foundation, exploring trends in drug deaths …

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4.1 Universal basic income 15:34

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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce and Vittal Katikireddi speak to Marcia Gibson about her work on Universal Basic Income as part of European Public Health Week 2024, which this year has the overall focus “Health is a political choice”. The papers discussed in this podcast are: Gibson, M. (2023) Basic income is a popu…

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3.7 Healthy Start vouchers evaluation 13:18

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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce and Lia Demou speak to Ruth Dundas about her evaluation of the Healthy Start vouchers scheme. Read the full report about the Healthy Start vouchers. Find out more about Growing Up in Scotland and the Infant Feeding Survey. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit webs…

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3.6 Baby Boxes in Finland and Scotland 10:05

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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Ronan McCabe talks to Anna Pearce and Alastair Leyland about his recent work evaluating the impacts of the introduction of Baby Boxes in Finland and Scotland. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter.By MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

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3.5 Ethnic inequalities and COVID-19 13:23

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To mark ‘Diversity in Health’ day during European Public Health Week, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce have a conversation with Vittal Katikireddi about a framework for understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes. You can read more about the framework in the open access paper discussed in the episode. Visit the MRC/CSO Socia…

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3.4 Universal credit 16:25

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As part of European Public Health Week’s ‘Mental Health for All’ day, 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities hosts Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce chat to Peter Craig about a recently commenced evaluation looking at the impacts of Universal Credit on mental health. You can read more about the study in the freely available protocol. Visit the MRC/CSO So…

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3.3 Health Inequalities Report 15:24

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In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Naomi Miall, Gillian Fergie and Anna Pearce discuss their recently published report looking at trends in health inequalities in Scotland. You can find out more on the report website. Thanks to the commissioners of this report, the Health Foundation, as well as our many expert advisors and stakeh…

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3.2 Maternal and Child Health network (MatCHNet) 16:52

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Ruth Dundas, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce discuss the Maternal and Child Health network (MatCHNet) – including its aims, challenges, progress to date and next steps. You can visit the MatCHNet website to sign up to join the network and to find out more information, including policy briefings on welfare grants in pregnancy and early childhood, e…

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3.1 Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS) 12:21

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In this 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities podcast Ruth Dundas and Anna Pearce chat to Mirjam Allik and Edit Gedeon about their recently published findings on the health of care experienced children in Scotland. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter. Follow CHiCS on Twitter…

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2.4 The mental health of carers 16:26

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Alastair Leyland and Lia Demou talk to Elise Whitley about her work investigating the mental health of carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown in the UK.By MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

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2.3 Vaccine waning 15:08

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Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce speak to Vittal Katikireddi from the SPHSU about his work examining waning of the AstraZeneca vaccine.By MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

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2.2 Creative Insights study 16:30

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Mike Green and Anna Pearce speak to Gillian Fergie and Caroline Vaczy about Creative Insights – their participatory project to gain young people’s perspectives on health inequalities.By MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

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A Narrative Inquiry of Relational Conflict Navigation for East Asian American Women 21:54

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In this episode of The Counseling Psychologist podcast series, Dr. Minsun Lee talks about the article recently published in TCP titled, "A Narrative Inquiry of Relational Conflict Navigation for East Asian American Women."

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2025 Second Chinese Podcast (January to March 2025) 8:37

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2025P2 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Dr. Tianchu Lyu, review highlights of the Jan to Mar 2025 Issues and Supplements. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. José Pagán, Professor and Chair of Department of Public Health Policy and Management, School of Global Public Health, New York University…

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NH #720: SPECIAL: Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Lies, Health Cover-Up by World Health Organization (WHO) Continues – Alison Katz, Independent WHO 59:49

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(KEYSTONE COVER IMAGE). The wreckage of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine, shortly after the explosion and meltdown on April 26, 1986. (ABOVE) Color shot of Chernobyl in the immediate aftermath of the explosion and meltdown. The fuzziness of the picture is due to radiation hitting the film and creating spots. NOTE: I have...…

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Cuts, Tariffs, and Tightening Borders – Trump's United States and Global Health 18:25

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Send us a text It’s been a dire year for global health. Almost as soon as he took office as president of the United States, Donald Trump said he would withdraw the country from membership in the World Health Organization (WHO), he fired almost everyone at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and slashed staffing and budgets at U.S…

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Ep. 117 Defining School Shootings and Arming Teachers with Benjamin Comer 59:44

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Welcome to Episode 117 of The Criminology Academy podcast, where we are criminally academic. In this episode, we are speaking with Professor Benjamin Comer and his work around school shootings. Benjamin Comer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Texas Christian University. His research focuses on gun vi…

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AJPH 4B/2025:"EMPATHY IN ACTION: TRANSFORMING PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGING IN A POLARIZED ERA" (ENGLISH) 13:18

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Alfredo Morabia and Vickie Mays (UCLA), editors at the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) conducted an in-person interview of Lauren Weber, who, at The Washington Post, is an accountability reporter focusing on scientific and medical disinformation. She presented her work at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the APHA in Minneapolis.…

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NH #719: US Nukes in England?!? 10-Day Lakenheath Peace Camp Opposes US Nuclear Weapons on UK RAF Base – Angie Zelter 59:02

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This Week’s Featured Interview: Photo from Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp, 1981 – 2000, the model for the upcoming Lakenheath Peace Camp. LINKS from Interview: For people in the USA or other countries wanting to get involved or send a statement of support to the Lakenheath Peace Camp, you can write to: [email protected] or …

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NH #718: US Tariffs + Ontario’s Nuclear Blind Spot (4 New US Nukes!) = Irreversible Canadian Vulnerability! – Dr. Gordon Edwards 58:36

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Dr. Gordon Edwards, speaking at the United Nations This Week’s Featured Interview: Dr. Gordon Edwards is a mathematician, physicist, nuclear consultant, and president of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. He is one of our most cogent thinkers on nuclear issues and regularly puts together the pieces to give us a clear picture of exac…

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Clearing the Air – Can Pollution Affect Kid's Grades? 15:42

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Send us a text Air pollution is a big killer. Air pollution of all kinds helped kill 4.2 million people globally in 2019, according to the World Health Organization. It can damage nearly every organ in the body, worsening asthma and leading to cancer and heart disease. It especially affects pregnant women and can damage a growing fetus. Air polluti…

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Ep. 116 Risk Needs Assessments with Zach Hamilton 1:02:45

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In this episode, we are speaking with Professor Zach Hamilton about his work on risk-needs assessments. Zachary Hamilton is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Associate Director of the Nebraska Center for Justice Research at the University of Nebraska Omaha. His research centers on innovation in risk and needs assessment developmen…

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NH #717: Three Mile Island Accident 46th Anniversary – Unit 1 Reactor to Restart to Power Bill Gates’ Microsoft Data Center? 1:00:00

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At the 40th anniversary of the TMI accident in 2019. Unit 1 in background was still in operation. This Week’s Featured Interview: Eric Epstein is the Chairman of Three Mile Island Alert, Inc., a safe-energy organization based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that was founded in 1977. TMIA monitors the Peach Bottom, Susquehanna, and Three Mile Island...…

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AJPH 4/2025: "THE STATE OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE HISPANIC/LATINO COMMUNITY OF THE US" (ENGLISH) 22:18

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In this episode Alfredo Morabia explores with Cynthia N. Lebron (Latino Caucus for Public Health), José Pérez-Ramos, (U Rochester), and Anna-Michelle McSorley, (U Connecticut) key health issues facing the Hispanic/Latino population in the U.S., We examine the adequacy of health data collection, questioning whether current tools provide an accurate …

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NH #716: SPECIAL: UN Meetings on Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons Condemns “Deterrence” as a Dangerous Myth 1:00:01

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This Week’s SPECIAL on the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – Third Meeting of States Parties March 2-7, 2025 Posing with the iconic gun sculpture in front of UN headquarteers in New York. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) held its Third Meeting of States Parties (3MSP) at...…

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From Young Adult Romance to the World's Deadliest Infectious Disease – Writer John Green takes on TB 15:20

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Send us a text It’s hard to overstate how popular writer John Green is. His most famous book, The Fault in Our Stars – a novel about teenagers with cancer, young love, and fate – has sold tens of millions of copies. The film based on the book brought in more than $300 million and it’s still popular to this day. Green has become a YouTube star and l…

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College Students’ Coping, Resilience, Well-Being, Academic Experiences, and Help-Seeking Attitudes During COVID-19 37:44

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In this episode of The Counseling Psychologist podcast series, Dr. Yu-Wei Wang and Dr. Israel Abebe talk about the article recently published in TCP titled, "College Students’ Coping, Resilience, Well-Being, Academic Experiences, and Help-Seeking Attitudes During COVID-19."

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Ep. 115 The Uber, AirBnB, and Crime with David Kirk 1:05:45

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In this episode we speak with David Kirk about the gig economy (Uber; AirBnb) and how it relates to crime. David Kirk is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago and previously served on the …

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JOSN April 2025: National Association of School Nurses Position Statements 13:04

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Martha Dewey Bergren, editor of The Journal of School Nursing, interviews authors Connie Griffin and Kate King to discuss the following NASN Position Statements: "Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (Orders) in School" (Link to article), "School-Sponsored Before, After, and Extended School Year/Out of School Time Programs" (Link to article), and "Supervis…

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NH #715: VOICES FROM JAPAN – FUKUSHIMA at 14 – Clean-up or Cover-up?” True State of Disaster Site from Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center 57:02

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Fukushima disaster site, shortly after the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. This Week’s Featured Interview: We get all kinds of overly optimistic reports about the clean-up of radioactive water and debris from Fukushima, with Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the Japanese government, and their political enablers all claiming that thing…

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Unseen and Unheard: Investigating Invisibility in Vocational Psychology Through a Systemic Lens 8:08

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In this episode of the Journal of Career Assessment podcast series, JCA Editor Patton O. Garriott interviews lead author Han Na Suh about the recent JCA article, "Unseen and Unheard: Investigating Invisibility in Vocational Psychology Through a Systemic Lens."

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Fighting the Rise of Anti-Science 20:47

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Send us a text People have always doubted science. In the 17th century, Galileo was sentenced to house arrest by the Catholic Church for reporting his observations that the sun is at the center of the solar system and that the other planets, including Earth, orbit it. In 1925, the U.S. state of Tennessee banned the teaching of evolution and when a …

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AJPH 3B/2025: "WHAT IS PUBLIC HEALTH: GLOBAL HEALTH WORK" (ENGLISH) 16:52

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In this series, What is Public Health?, Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia speak with Dr. Craig Spencer from the Brown University School of Public Health. They explore the work of American public health professionals abroad—particularly in Asia and Africa—and discuss the real-world humanitarian impact of recent executive orders shutting down USAID and…

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NH #714 – SPECIAL: Physicist M. V. Ramana Book: Nuclear Not the Solution to Climate Change – Full Interview 1:03:41

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NOTE TO ALL CAMPAIGNERS AT THE UN TPNW/2MSP MEETINGS: THANKS OR COMING HERE! PLEASE, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE, LISTEN, AND RESEARCH FROM OUR PREVIOUS 700+ EPISODES! AND SEND YOUR STORIES TO: [email protected] THIS WEEK’S SPECIAL FULL-LENGTH INTERVIEW: Available on Amazon or better yet, order it from your favorite local bookstore. Animation from Westi…

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AJPH 3A/2025: "WHAT IS PUBLIC HEALTH: THE ROLE OF THE MMWR" (ENGLISH) 13:41

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In this series, What is Public Health?, Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia interview Dr. Sonja Rasmussen, former Editor-in-Chief of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). They discuss the role of the MMWR, the day-to-day responsibilities of its editor, and the potential consequences of recent executive orders restricting its publicati…

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AJPH 2C/2025: "SOCIETY’S ROLE IN ADDRESSING THE MENTAL HEALTH, GRIEF, AND BEREAVEMENT CRISIS" (ENGLISH) 36:40

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In this episode of the AJPH Vickie Mays, Alfredo Morabia and guest podcast co-host Susan Cochran offer reflections of a series of papers on the context of societal conditions that call out the need for public mental health. The interviews are of an author of 4 papers in a special AJPH issue on mental health. Margarita Alegria and her study of which…

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NH #713: United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) Media Prep – ICAN’s Lucero Oyarzun + Politicians Against Nukes 59:02

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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED INTERVIEW: LINKS to Access TPNW Coverage: Recap of 2023 interviews at 2MSP with International Politicians Against Nukes JAPAN’S FUKUSHIMA STUPID DEBRIS TRICKS Photo of the fabled Fukushima debris particle removed from Reactor 1. Note the lack of comparison for scale – it’s not a boulder; it’s only 0.7 grams, or the equivalent..…

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AJPH 2B/2025: "REDLINING AND WHITENESS: COLORS OF RACISM" (ENGLISH) 32:58

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In this AJPH podcast episode, Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia speak with Caroline R. Efird, Derek M. Griffith, and Jonathan Metzl about the often-overlooked concept of whiteness as a determinant of health. They discuss their article, 'Whiteness: A Fundamental Determinant of the Health of Rural White Americans,' exploring what whiteness is, why it s…

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