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Reach Radio
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Reach Radio covers a variety of topics, from data science to health equity, to universal access and everything in between. Our goal is to showcase leaders in the field of Public Health that are making a difference as well as to provide resources, inspiration, and ideas to improve public health globally. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fran-ayalasomayajula/support
Episodes
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Leadership in Medicine with Myriam Mondestin-Sorrentino, President and Edward Gulko, Executive Director at Middlesex & Mercer Counties Medical Society
Today’s guests will leave your jaw dropping on the floor with their fantastic work! This episode features Myriam Mondestin Sorrentino, the Middlesex and Mercer Counties Medical Society president, and Ed Gulko, their executive director. Together, they share how the Society is making a difference…
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Intro to Leadership & Resilience Series with Alexis A. & Risa W.
We are proud to introduce you to Reach Radio’s Leadership and Resilience Series. Since the pandemic hit, the healthcare industry has seen The Great Exodus: an increase in suicide and substance abuse from healthcare professionals and one of the most significant force reductions in history. Today…
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Lactation Support Services: Supporting the Needs of Mother and Child with Lauren Majors
Sonder Health takes expectant and post-birth mothers’ health to the next level. Lauren Majors, co-founder and president of Sonder Health took this bull by the horns and is now changing the life of a lot of patients. Breastfeeding is one of the most significant issues they work on since this has...
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Tackling Health Inequalities for Expectant Mothers with Leena Sankla and Clarisser Cupid
Education amongst expectant mothers about their health and their baby's health is so much needed. Preeclampsia is not only high blood pressure; it comes with a whole other package of illnesses and organ failures that a mother must be aware of. The digital space has arrived into this type of care,...
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Missouri Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review with Ashlie Otto & Alison Williams
Missouri is one of the states with the highest rates of maternal mortality. Fortunately, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) and the Missouri Hospital Association are working diligently to help improve maternal health throughout the state. Today's guests are part of the...
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Moms Pee When They Sneeze! With Laura Vidal Borrell
Do you pee when you sneeze? After giving birth to her first son, Laura Vidal experienced urinary incontinence. Fast forward to three years and the birth of a second child, her incontinence got worse despite having tried everything from different apps to Kegel exercises. Her frustration and...
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Maternal Mortality: A Growing Issue in the U.S. with Wanda Irving
Many times grief and loss can sprout beautiful things; this is how Wanda Irving founded Dr. Shalon’s Maternal Action Project. Three years after she lost her daughter, Wanda started this organization to keep fighting to improve maternal mortality and morbidity in our country. She started this...
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Rural Maternity Challenges in the State of Alabama with Ryan Kelly
Ryan Kelly is a source of information, inspiration, and innovative ideas! Ryan and his team at Alabama Rural Health Association are in charge of providing quality care to the communities in rural Alabama. Ryan enjoys talking about the concept of his association and reveals their ways of educating...
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Listening to Georgia Moms with Heidi M. Altman
When we talk of the maternal mortality rate, we usually look from the perspective of the care coordination team; this episode will show you the other side of the story. Heidi Altman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Georgia Southern University, decided to look at the soaring maternal...
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Exploring the universe with the AAVSO: Astronomy for all! with Styliani (Stella)Kafka
When your mission connects professional and amateur astronomers, even the sky is not the limit. Dr. Stella Kafka and the American Association of Variable Star Observers have been doing this for 110 years. They see everything around them as an opportunity for growth and a resource. They find…
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Expanding Services for Homelessness in Southeast South Dakota with Jesse Bailey
South Dakota faces a massive homelessness crisis, but fortunately, people like Jesse Bailey and his team at Pathways Shelter for the Homeless are here to help. In this episode, you will listen to the organization’s executive director talk about the challenges they face right now, what they want…
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The Importance of Resources in Rural Arkansas with Quinyatta Mumford
The Office of Rural Health and Primary Care of the Arkansas Health Department is working to improve the life and quality of people all across Arkansas. Today’s guest, Quinyatta Mumford, is part of this organization, which wants people to know about all the available resources for their use. They...
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Empowering Patients with their Own Medical Data with Wylecia Wiggs Harris
This episode’s guest is Dr. Wylecia Wiggs Harris. She and the rest of the members of AHIMA work at the intersection of healthcare technology and science. Their three goals are based on integrity, access, and connection between the data and people. It is crucial for patients to have their complete...
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Helping Veterans in Business Succeed Together with Rebecca Aguilera-Gardiner
Veterans have a wealth of life experiences from serving in the Armed Forces, but they also require help, mentorship, and support for entrepreneurship. Rebecca Aguilera-Gardiner realized this when she started a family business with her brother, a service-disabled veteran. Rebecca started the...
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Remote Patient Monitoring with Amit Sawant
Remote patient monitoring and ensuring the safety of older adults is the primary concern of Somatix. With the knowledge and experience of Amit Sawant, the Chief Product & Business Officer at Somatix, they managed to turn fitness trackers from an athletic option to a healthcare necessity. This…
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Building Trust Through Safety for the Elderly with Nathalie De Vazeille
Taking care of the vulnerable ones has become much easier thanks to StackCare! Nathalie De Vazeille, the woman in charge of Marketing and Business Development at StackCare, analyzes how the company makes it possible for the elderly to feel safer in their homes. She highlights the groups of people...
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Mental Health Wellness in Black and Brown Communities with Christopher Brown
Christopher Brown and Full Being Services’ work is beautiful in and around Philadelphia and across the country. Racism is an issue that affects someone’s physical and psychological health and impacts their performance at work. He stands behind the thought that a community with better access to...
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Empowering Patients with Digital Health Experiences with Jonathan
Alliances can be a big deal for any type and size company. In this episode, we have the honor to chat with Jonathan Olsen from Ivy Tree Advisors. He shares the main characteristics he looks for when he’s scouting for allies. Alignment in values and setting clear goals are critical. The technology...
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Housing Is Healthcare with Dawn Gilman
Homelessness is on the rise across the country even before the pandemic, but Changing Homeless, a not-for-profit organization in Jacksonville, Florida, has been making strides in decreasing homelessness in its community and state. In this episode, Dawn Gilman, CEO at Changing Homelessness, talked...
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A Vision of Better Health for the Philippines with Ely Bautista
This week’s guest is an advocate for a multifaceted perspective of health! Through the Ateneo the Manila University’s Health Sciences Society, Ely and his team work on a diverse set of public health initiatives. They are concentrating on advocacy since the Philippines has a giant gap in their...
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Pursuing Economic Equity with Cecil Plummer
The Minority Supplier Development Council is the best-kept secret for small business owners! Today’s guest is Cecil Plummer, president and CEO of the Western Region branch of this national network. He came over to the show to share how they are helping small owners boost their businesses and…
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What you need to know about Grant Writing with Dr. Beverly Browning
Dr. Beverly Browning is one of those people that give so much advice you need to grab a piece of paper and take notes! In this episode, Dr. Browning shares her experience around grant writing and the purpose of establishing the Grant Writing Training Foundation. Her organization has the goal of...
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Gong Meditation as an Intervention for Anxiety with Karambir Sing
Gong Tones, Inc. promotes research into the therapeutic use of sound for mental health and well-being. Karambir Singh Khalsa established this nonprofit organization and expanded the evidence supporting sound healing as a cure for clinical mental health diagnoses. Karambir narrates his first ever...
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Hypnosis, a Non-pharmacological Option for Pain Management with Roberta Fernandez & Ron Eslinger
In this episode, you will enjoy listening to two of the most outstanding speakers in the hypnosis and pain management field. Roberta was one of Ron’s students years ago! She has, since then, published a book, and he has kept working training Navy, Army, and Airforce nurses and doctors in hypnosis...
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Nurses Battling Healthcare Inequality with Katherine Golden
There is a lot of research and evidence-based sources about Cannabis out there we don’t know. This episode’s guest is the Founder and CEO of Leaf411, a nonprofit organization that established the first Cannabis-trained nurse hotline in the United States. They are working hard to provide free...
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The Power of Mindfulness with Usha Siva
Brave New Mind exists to make mindfulness training easy, effective, and memorable. Under the leadership of the founder, Usha Siva, the organization aims to spread the importance of mindfulness in people’s lives, and especially, a company’s employees. Usha explains how Brave New Mind helps...
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Are you Living in a Dog-Friendliness Desert? with Beth Miller
Wagtown teaches what it means to be dog-friendly, responsibly, and authentically. The organization, founded by Beth Miller, has the mission of helping people peacefully coexist with dogs in a community. Beth emphasizes the importance of this idea and how beneficial it can be for the community's...
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Serving the Underserved and Fighting for Equity with Janice Brathwaite
Serving the underserved and fighting for equity is the mission of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers. With the help of Janice Brathwaite, their Director of Workforce Programs, the League serves anyone that needs health care. Organizational culture is a big deal for the League…
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Can We Serve Patients Twice? with Vincent Keunen
Andaman7 is the solution to one of the most common problems patients face in their health care journey. The organization, founded by Vincent Keunen, creates solutions that contribute to the development of medical research. Vincent wholeheartedly talks about his and his son's struggle with cancer...
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Building a Bridge to Care for At-risk Youth and Families with Dina Johnson
Can you imagine the number of resources available for communities that are not being used? Creating a resource map was one of the immediate goals for Dina Johnson and the Monroe County Family Coalition in Greece, New York. After the tragic assassination of George Floyd and having a successful…
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Business Diversity - Now is the Time! with J. Vincent Williams
The Chicago Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc., (ChicagoMSDC) is an organization that certifies, develops, connects, and advocates for minority-owned businesses, helping create business opportunities with major buying organizations. It is one of the 23 affiliates of the National Minority...
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Why Women are the New Economy with Holly Smithson
Many large companies are now moving faster towards diversity, equity, and inclusion. Athena, a San Diego-based organization, focused on women’s defense in the STEM field. Through mentoring, leadership development, and advocacy, their goal is to bring one million women into Science, Technology,...
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Health Equity in Rural Communities with Joanne Troutman
United Way is a global organization with a local affiliate structure dedicated to social impact towards education, health, and financial stability. Their branch in Great Susquehanna works specifically in rural and central Pennsylvania. Joanne explains why in this community, as in many rural...
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Why Processing Grief is Critical to Health with Michele Neff Hernandez
Grief expresses itself in different shapes, forms, and times for everybody. Most of the time, widowed people don’t know where to ask for help, company, or someone that understands the changes they are going through. Michele Neff Hernandez has developed research-based programs and created a...
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Providing Clean Water with Darrell Nelson
We believe every child’s right to clean water.” With 2.1 billion people lacking access to safe drinking water*, Clean Water International’s mission is to empower disadvantaged communities by providing access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene projects. Led by Darrel Nelson, this nonprofit...
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Repurposing High-Need Neighborhoods for Kid's Success with Cindy Eggleton
How do you make a true transformation within communities? In this episode, we catch up with the co-founder and CEO of Brilliant Detroit, Cindy Eggleton. Cindy shares how Brilliant Detroit is making a massive difference in people’s lives in poor kid success neighborhoods. By repurposing an actual...
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Ethics in the application of VR with Charlie Pearmund
Charlie Pearmund and the company he’s working with will change the VR game. Based on the concept of embodiment, they want to make a change in behaviors towards diversity and inclusion. With different experiments, Virtual Bodyworks is advancing the use of VR. They work with tactile and motor...
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How VR is Unlocking the Neurosciences with Amir Bozorgzadeh
We constantly exercise our body, but do we exercise our minds? Virtuleap is the gym for the mind. This digital therapeutics company offers a library of VR cognitive games designed by neuroscientists to test and rain a range of cognitive functions like memory skills, processing, and…
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Resiliency Through Music and VR Technology with Yael Swerdlow
What art forms do you use to cope with what is going on in the world right now? With music as the first line of defense, Yael Swerdlow and Maestro Games help people through mental, spiritual, and physical challenges. They created a game platform called The Last Maestro. This platform combines…
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VR for Positive and Lasting Behavioral Change with Aaron Gani and Rory Channer
The future lies in VR and how we can use it in our favor! In this episode, we have the honor of having Aaron Gani and Rory Channer as guests. Together, they work on BehaVR, LLC. They are a company that creates digital therapeutics for behavioral health through the power of Virtual Reality. They...
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Transforming Healthcare with Virtual Reality (VR) with Robert -Bob- Fine
Bob Fine is here to talk to us about the techy parts of VR. But don't worry, you will be able to keep up because this episode is meant for non-techy listeners! Bob’s work with IVRHA always starts with the members and getting to know their needs; This may be difficult, but they do their best to...
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Empowering Communities Through Ongoing Local Engagements with Dr. Tatiana Warren
Our guest today is Dr. Tatiana Warren. She started her organization in 2015 after the sad death of Freddie Gray. Since then, she has been helìng communities and organizations find funding and resources to deliver community outcomes. Dr. Tati likes to concentrate on the assets that communities...
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Accelerating Innovation Through Collaboration with Sherry Farrugia
The Global Center for Medical Innovation wants to shorten the processes for many stakeholders in the industry. Sherry Farrugia is their CEO, and she leads all the strategic initiatives to make this successful. Their job is to simplify the processes from conceptualization to commercialization. ....
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What You Don't See about Homelessness in London with Vayu Singhal
Would you join a platform that tells the story of hundreds of homeless individuals? This is what the Homeless Network does. To create empathy, they share short stories and experiences of individuals that have been and still are on the streets of London. Sharing their stories makes them feel…
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Recovery Park with Gary Wozniak
Going back into society after spending some years away can be a really tough challenge. Based on his own life experience, Gary started this social enterprise to help people with barriers to employment. Recovery Park is working with the prison system to help inmates get the basic credentials to…
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NYC Homeless Services with Andrea Jordan
Breaking Ground is working for the homeless of New York. Managing over four thousand apartments, they want to support them with affordable and permanent housing. Their programs are varied, yet they concentrate on housing and outreach for the homeless around Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. They...
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Lifting Youth Out of the Catch-22 of Homelessness and into Community with Ann Bischoff
To offer kids a safe place to be and grow up is absolutely rewarding. This is Star House’s mission, led by Ann Bischoff. The organization has transformed itself since it started in 2006. Now, they work with children ages 14 to 24 to provide a fallback plan for them. Immediate access is essential...
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Ending Homelessness in Canada with Michael Braithwaite
If you had to leave your home immediately, would you know where to go and ask for help? BlueDoor’s mission has been to work with people that are homeless. They have been around for around 40 years working in the York region of Canada. Even though there are not many people working in the social...
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Reimagining Home Sharing for an Ageing Society with Suzanne Noble
Finding a community and a support system is always necessary for life. The idea of doing this came unexpectedly to Suzanne and her friends. They were together one day and discussed how the media was misrepresenting women in their 50s and 60s. So this is how Advantages of Age came to be. In the…
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Building up the Skill Sets of Mental Healthcare Providers with Thurman Brown
Thurman Brown’s work is all about helping people dealing with mental health and substance abuse issues. Thurman is creating a way to provide services not only for clients but to staff and supervisors. His counseling covers many topics: from 12-core functions and 8 domains to relapse, trauma, and...
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Reach Radio covers a variety of topics, from data science to health equity, to universal access and everything in between. Our goal is to showcase leaders in the field of Public Health that are making a difference as well as to provide resources, inspiration, and ideas to improve public health globally. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fran-ayalasomayajula/support
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