Community members who care about health and happiness

Susan Polan, associate executive director for public affairs and advocacy with the American Public Health Association, talks about the decline in trust and the politicization in public health in America and the work health experts are doing to keep communities happy and healthy. Polan joins Lynn Schmidt, columnist and editorial board member with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The conversation spans the rise in vaccine skepticism, the closure of rural hospitals, suicide prevention, opioid overdoses and combating “deaths of despair.”   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.