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Public Health On Call — 1000 episodes
Two Federal Changes to Support Children and Families in the Foster Care System
Juneteenth: Celebration, Reflection, and Recommitment with Janice Bowie
A New Test for Lyme Disease, Developed by High Schoolers
The Rise of "Big Wellness"
The Race for a Bundibugyo Ebolavirus Vaccine
An Unlikely Alliance to Lower Healthcare Costs
What We Must Learn From Ebola—A "Disease of Compassion"
How College Campuses Can Support Students in Recovery
Violence Against Healthcare in Conflict: 2025 Report
The Legal Challenges Facing Mifepristone
1057 - Five Baltimore Health Commissioners Walk into an Auditorium
1056 - An Ebola Outbreak in Central Africa
1055 - Rethinking Humanitarian Health
1054 - Interview With a Graduate: A Newly Minted DrPH in Louisiana
1053 - Health Commissioner Michelle Taylor is Betting on Baltimore
1052 - Should AI Renew Your Prescription?
1051 - The Fate of Foreign Aid in 2026
1050 - A Doctor Uses Social Media to Advocate for Children in Immigration Detention
1049 - What to Know About Hantavirus
1048 - Understanding and Ending Violence
1047 - Food Access at Your Neighborhood Y
1046 - "The Service is the Message": A Conversation with New York's Commissioner of Health
1045 - What's Next for a New Lyme Vaccine
1044 - A Peek Behind the Curtain: A Conversation with Our Resident in Residence
1043 - How Community Health Workers Improve Research
1042 - The Red Hill Water Crisis: How Jet Fuel Contaminated the Water Supply of More Than 60,000 People
1041 - World Malaria Day: Promising Tools for Elimination Amidst Research Cuts
1040 - Growing Demand for Menopausal Hormone Therapies Brings Excitement—and New Concerns
1039 - Spending Down Billions in Opioid Settlement Money: The Debatable, The Inventive, and The Innovative
1038 - Cannabis Use Disorder in Adolescents Linked to Other Psychiatric Conditions
1037 - Chatbots, Mental Health, and Suicide
1036 - Geopolitics and Humanitarian Health in Iran, Cuba, and Ukraine
1035 - The Epic Struggle for Public Health
1034 - An Update on Measles and the U.S.'s Elimination Status
1033 - Chemical Contaminants and Fungal Fixes in Wastewater and Agriculture
1032 - A Judge Rules on Vaccines
1031 - What is Prediabetes?
1030 - An Endgame for the Tobacco Industry?
1029 - What We Know About CTE
1028 - Vaccine Policy in the States
1027 - The EPA's Approval of Two New Pesticides
1026 - A Mental Health Crisis for Adults with IDDs
1025 - Advancing the Elimination of Schistosomiasis
1024 - "Healing in a Changing America"—Starting with Florida
1023 - How Social Media is Changing the Way We Talk About Health
1022 - Preventing Teen Car Crashes and Deaths
1021 - Antibiotic Overuse in Dentistry
1020 - TrumpRx and High Drug Prices
1019 - Medical Aid in Dying
1018 - Health and Wealth With Baby Bonds
1017 - Getting More Health Out of Health Care—By Paying for It
1016 - An Unlikely but Promising Collaboration in Ohio
1015 - Unexplained Pauses in CDC Data
1014 - How the FDA Regulates Mifepristone, "the Abortion Pill"
1013 - A College Course for Digital Detoxing
1012 - A "Giant Geyser of Poop" Along the Potomac River
1011 - Policies for Play: School Recess and Public Health
1010 - Centering Pleasure in Sexual Health
1009 - What's Happening at SAMHSA?
1008 - The Outlook on Direct-to-Consumer Health Care
1007 - Public Health and Gambling Part 2: Problem Gambling
1006 - Public Health and Gambling Part 1: How Gambling Became So Ubiquitous, and the Potential for Problems
1005 - Vaccines 101: The Past, Present, and Future of the Federal Vaccine Schedule
1004 - The State of Obesity in the U.S.
1003 - The U.S.'s Insurance-Based Health Care System
1002 - On Public Health and Human Rights in Minneapolis
1001 - Vaccines 101: How FDA Regulates Vaccines
1000 - Celebrating 1,000 Episodes of Public Health On Call
999 - Head Lice and Bed Bugs
998 - Marion Nestle on the New Dietary Guidelines
997 - The New Drug Igniting a Withdrawal Crisis
996 - Canada's Low-Risk Alcohol Guidelines
995 - A Record-Breaking Flu Season
994 - What "The Pitt" Reflects About Real-Life Hospitals
993 - What to Know About Whooping Cough
992 - HHS Changes Its Pediatric Vaccine Recommendations—Part 2, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
991 - HHS Changes Its Pediatric Vaccine Recommendations—Part 1, The Announcement
990 - Is There a Fertility Crisis?
989 - A Sharp Rise in Pickleball Injuries
988 - An End to Animal Testing?
987 - The Disturbing War Strategy of Attacking Health Care
986 - "Information Sick"
985 - How to Investigate a Cancer Cluster
984 - Sneak Attacks: How Viruses Can Hide In Our Bodies and Cause Problems Years Later
983 - Why Do We Believe Misinformation?
982 - An Uncertain Outlook for Injury Prevention in the U.S.
981 - Maine's Largest Ever HIV Outbreak
980 - Why Early Introduction Helps Reduce Children's Peanut Allergies
979 - Why Are More People Choosing Not to Vaccinate Their Pets?
978 - Advancing Robotic Telesurgery
977 - The Health Risks of Alcohol
976 - Championing the Just Treatment of People Who Use Substances
975 - A Tumultuous Year for NIH Funding
974 - Caring for Children in War-Torn Ukraine
973 - Baltimore's Record Low in Homicides
972 - Inside Rising Health Insurance Costs
971 - An Update on Syphilis in the Great Plains Region
970 - What We Know—and Still Don't Know—About Long COVID
969 - Access to In Vitro Fertilization, 2025
968 - An End to the Household Food Security Report
967 - An Update on Baltimore's Swimmable Harbor and the Pistachio Tide
966 - "CDC is a horrible place to be at this time"
965 - Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Medication Use During Pregnancy
964 - Supporting the Public Health Workforce in Challenging Times
963 - Separating the MMR Vaccine?
962 - Buprenorphine Can Save Lives—If You Can Get It
961 - The Science Behind Home Remedies with The People's Pharmacy
960 - How Pharmacists Improve Community Health
959 - The Apprenticeship That Saved My Life
958 - The Executive Order on Homelessness
957 - The Formula for Better Health
956 - Medical Care in Immigration Detention
955 - Mental Health Care in ICE Custody
954 - Preventing Suicide
953 - Interpreting the Data on Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Autism
952 - The Atomic Bomb, 80 Years Later
951 - Dr. Debra Houry on Her Decision to Leave the CDC
950 - Michael Osterholm on Vaccine Policy in 2025
949 - A Roadmap for Helping Adolescents Thrive
948 - Recent "Expert Panels" Could Undermine the FDA's Credibility
947 - "Taxpayer Money Went to Buy Food to Feed People… Now It's Being Burned"
946 - Baltimore's Back-to-Back Mass Overdoses
945 - Keeping Cool in One of America's Hottest Cities
944 - How Credit Scores Impact Your Health
943 - Who Can Get a COVID Vaccine This Fall?
942 - Could One Health Prevent the Next Pandemic?
941 - Back to School: How Vermont is Addressing Chronic Absence
940 - A Brief Update: CDC in Crisis
939 - Unfiltered Conversations to Restore Trust in Public Health
938 - Book Club—There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
937 - Meet the Future of Public Health
936 - The New Reality Facing Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA
935 - World Mosquito Day: Harnessing New Tools to Jumpstart the Fight Against Malaria
934 - Sickle Cell Disease: Genetic Therapies and Treatment Hurdles
933 - Fall Vaccine Confusion with Your Local Epidemiologist
932 - Cuts to mRNA Vaccine Development
931 - A Big Setback for Nutrition Education
930 - Peace Building in a Polarized Public Health Landscape
929 - How To Spot Unregulated Pharmacies and Falsified Medications
928 - When Pharmacists Prescribe Medication for Abortion
927 - World Breastfeeding Week: Creating Sustainable Support Systems
926 - A Disability Advocate Speaks Out on Medicaid Cuts
925 - Starvation in Gaza
924 - The Shocking Hazards of Louisiana's "Cancer Alley"
923 - A Critical Moment in the Fight Against HIV
922 - Book Club—Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure
921 - Is Bird Flu Gone for Good?
920 - Changes to the CDC's Vaccine Advisory Committee
919 - The Texas Floods and the Future of Forecasting
918 - Should AI Be Your Therapist?
917 - Why Some Moms Are Hesitant To Vaccinate
916 - Childhood Asthma
915 - America's Caregiver Crisis
914 - Reducing Food Waste to Take Climate Action
913 - Uncovering America's Decades-Long PFAS Contamination
912 - The Correlation Between Movement and Health As We Age
911 - Book Club—We Are Eating The Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System
910 - Climate Change and Meteorology: 2025 Update
909 - From the Archives: Reflecting on Juneteenth with Janice Bowie
908 - A Sharp Decline in Homicides
907 - Humanitarian Health in Gaza and Beyond
906 - Here To Understand: How Braver Angels Is Orchestrating Tough Public Health Conversations
905 - Tonsillectomy, Adenoidectomy, and Ear Tubes for Children
904 - Tariffs on Pharmaceuticals
903 - Violence Against Health Care in Conflict: 2024 Report
902 - Gun Violence Awareness Month: Safe Storage Saves Lives
901 - Changing Recommendations for COVID Vaccines
900 - How To Be A Better Tourist With Cameron Hewitt
899 - Pediatric COVID Vaccines
898 - The Measles Response in Lubbock, Texas
897 - Interview With A Graduate: A Doctor of Health Policy Looks At AI and Health Insurance
896 - World No Tobacco Day: Unmasking the Appeal of New Products
895 - The Executive Order on Prescription Drug Pricing
894 - Is There an Autism Epidemic?
893 - "On Going Backwards": A New HIV/AIDS Epidemic?
892 - Health Policy in Trump's First 100 Days
891 - B'More For Healthy Babies: A Look Back at 15 Years of Infant Mortality Reduction in Baltimore
890 - What's Happening to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)?
889 - Zyn Nicotine Pouches
888 - A Conversation With Alabama's State Health Officer
887 - It's Tick Season!
886 - An Accord For A Global Pandemic Treaty
885 - World Malaria Day: Advocacy on Capitol Hill—Funding, Research, and Global Impact
BONUS - The Case For Planetary Health—Can We Change?
884 - Why Biosafety Standards Vary Around The World
883 - How An Advocate is Thinking About Family Planning
882 - Personnel Cuts at the CDC
881 - The Building H Index: Ranking Consumer Products By Their Impacts On Our Health
880 - "The FDA As We've Known It Is Finished"
879 - The Impacts of Terminating COVID-era Funding for States
878 - Opioid Use Disorder Treatment in the ER
877 - Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance
876 - Preventing Mpox Transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
875 - Tradeoffs: Why Many Republicans Think Shrinking Medicaid Will Make It Better
874 - The Potential Impacts of Cuts To Medicaid
873 - Drowning As A Public Health Issue
872 - Ketamine and Esketamine
871 - A Potentially "Game-Changing" Approach to Preventing Ovarian Cancer
870 - The Origins, Impacts, and Challenges of Misinformation
869 - The Evidence on Vaccines and Autism
868 - COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma: From Emergency to Everyday
867 - Everything Is Tuberculosis: A Conversation With John Green
866 - Vaccines 101: Understanding the Vaccines on the Childhood Vaccination Schedule
865 - Deep-Sea Mining
864 - The Measles Outbreak in Texas and Beyond
863 - The NIH-Funded Autism Study Hoping to Pinpoint Gene-Environmental Interplay
862 - The Misinformation Around Seed Oils
861 - Ending Neglect of Tropical Diseases
860 - Why Gender and Gender Identity Matter for Health
859 - What Foreign Aid Means For National Security
858 - A Safer Gun Buying Process
853 - The Hazy World of Cannabis Policy
857 - The Concepts Behind The Language of Equity
856 - The Unequal Impacts of Abortion Bans
855 - Can The CDC Communicate More Transparently With The Public?
854 - The Worst Flu Season In A Decade
852 - The FDA's Proposed Food Labeling Changes
851 - Policing With a Public Health Lens in South Dakota
850 - The History of Birthright Citizenship in the U.S.
849 - Marion Nestle and Food Politics
848 - Vaccines 101: The Vaccines For Children Program
847 - Vaccines 101: The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
846 - Vaccines 101: Vaccine Safety Science
845 - Tuberculosis in the U.S.
844 - The Changing CDC Website
843 - The Native Biodata Consortium: Data Sovereignty For Good
842 - Polio and the Polio Vaccine
841 - The U.S. & The World Health Organization
840 - Vaccines 101: The Basics of Vaccines and Vaccination
839 - The First Week's Executive Orders
838 - Book Club—Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks
837 - Seeking Common Ground in Public Health
836 - The FDA Says Goodbye to Red Dye No. 3
835 - Fluoride and The Law
834 - Bird Flu Is Escalating
833 - Why Are Americans Dying So Much Earlier Than Some Of Their Counterparts?
832 - The Importance of Knowing and Optimizing Your Hearing Health…At ANY Age
831 - Public Health Science Communication With Your Local Epidemiologist
830 - Advancing Public Health in Uncertain Political Times
829 - Do Mammograms Save Lives?
828 - Public Health is a Human Right
827 - The Rise in Pediatric Cases of Walking Pneumonia
826 - The Success of Rx Kids, Flint's Infant Cash Prescription Program
825 - The Future of the Environmental Protection Agency Under Trump
824 - Avian Influenza (H5N1) Update
823 - Special Episode—The Fight For A Swimmable Harbor in Baltimore
823 - Fluoride In The Water
822 - Book Club: "Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice"
821 - Psychological First Aid: Processing Big Post-Election Emotions
820 - The Anti-Vaccine Movement Gets Its Close-Up
819 - A Second Trump Term: A Look At The Headlines
818 - An Update On Measles, Pertussis, Mpox, and Other Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
817 - What's Behind All The Food Recalls
816 - Book Club: The Promise and Peril of CRISPR
815 - How To Run For Congress As A Public Health Official (Even If You Lose)
814 - Book Club—The Anatomy of Deception: Conspiracy Theories, Distrust, and Public Health in America
813 - The Perilous State of Women's Health Care, Post-Roe
812 - The Potentially "Game-changing" RSV Products Available This Season
811 - The 30th Anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act
810 - 2024 Election Series: What's At Stake For Immigrants and Immigration
Bonus - All About Marburg Virus
809 - The Grand Opening of the Great Plains Hub for the Center for Indigenous Health
Bonus - A Report from the Frontlines of Hurricane Helene Devastation in Tennessee
808 -2024 Election Series: What's At Stake For Gun Violence Prevention
807 - Peacebuilding to Help Mend A Broken World—2023 Re-release
Bonus - A Hurricane In The Mountains: The Aftermath of Helene
806 - 2024 Election Series: What's At Stake For American Public Health
805 - 2024 Election Series: What's At Stake For Health Insurance, Medicare/Medicaid, and Drug Pricing
804 - 2024 Election Series: What's At Stake For Abortion Access
803 - 2024 Election Series: What's At Stake For Global Health
802 - Safer Supply: A Novel Approach to Reducing Overdose Deaths
801 - ADHD and Aging
800 - All About Parvovirus
799 - How An Online Gaming Community Is Helping To Prevent Veteran Suicides
798 - When Should I Get My COVID/Flu Shot? And Other Queries To Kick off Respiratory Virus Season
797 - A Fall Look-Ahead With School Nurses: More Than Just Band-Aids and Ice Packs
796 - An Update on PEPFAR And The Reality of Ending HIV
795 - The Discovery of a New Clade of Candida Auris—A "Critical Pathogen"
794 - Does A Really Cause B? How a Biostatistician Thinks About Causality
793 - What It's Like To Be America's Chief Health Diplomat
792 - World Mosquito Day: Gene Drives and CRISPR Technology
791 - Tradeoffs —The Fifth Branch: Transforming The Way Communities Respond to People in Crisis
790 - How Violence Reduction Councils Can Prevent Homicides and Shootings
789 - Why The Mpox Crisis Spreading Across Africa Is A Global Concern
788 - SCOTUS—Not The EPA—Is Now Regulating Environmental Protection
787 - Open Air Care Connections: Mental Health Care in Brooklyn's Iconic Prospect Park
786 - A Psychologist's Review of The Film "Inside Out 2"
785 - Tradeoffs—Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools
784 - The Inside Story of the 1964 Surgeon General's Report That Changed How Americans Viewed Smoking
783 - Diaper Insecurity And Why It Matters For Child Health and Well-Being
782 - Everything You Need to Know About Sunscreen
781 - Preparing For The 2024 Paris Olympics
780 - The Mental Health of Migrant Children
779 - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Takes A Step On Climate
778 - The White House's New Rules Around Gain-of-function Research
777 - Meteorology and Climate Change
Special Series: Racial Bias and Pulse Oximeters Part 1–A Problem Hiding in Plain Sight
Special Series: Racial Bias and Pulse Oximeters Part 2—What Went Wrong?
Special Series: Racial Bias and Pulse Oximeters Part 3—Fixing Pulse Oximeters
Bonus Episode - Mifepristone and EMTALA SCOTUS Rulings: A Holding Pattern
776 - The Invisible Shield—Public Health
775 - How to Make Cities More Mental Health Friendly for Adolescents and Young Adults
774 - Why We Desperately Need—And Still Don't Have—A Global Pandemic Treaty
773 - More Consequences of Abortion Restrictions: Increases in Infant Deaths in Texas
772 - Why Are So Many Adults Being Diagnosed With ADHD?
771 - More Cases of Measles in the United States
BONUS - Allegations of War Crimes By Leaders of Hamas and Israeli Officials before the International Criminal Court
770 - Juneteenth in 2024
769 - A Conversation With A Coast Guard Flight Surgeon
768 - The Food Industry and the #Antidiet Movement
767 - A Much More Effective—But Complicated—CPR Could Save Many More Lives
766 - The Legacy of Dr. Levi Watkins: Heart Surgeon and Activist
765 - The Rise of Colorectal Cancers Among Younger People
764 - Am I Taking Too Many Medications? Polypharmacy, Interactions, and Drug Cascades
763 - How To Avoid Getting Sick On A Cruise Ship
762 - Interview With a Graduate: A New Doctor of Epidemiology Connects Physical Activity to Cognitive Health
761 - The Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan
760 - Planetary Health in the ER: The Role of Medicine In The Earth Crisis
759 - Book Club: What If Fungi Win?
758 - Homelessness and SCOTUS: What Happens When People Experiencing Homelessness Are Forced To Move?
757 - How to Prevent Dengue or "Break-Bone Fever"
756 - Electronic Cigarettes Part 2: How Serious are the Health Risks Associated with E-cigs?
BONUS - An Update on Bird Flu in the U.S.
755 - Electronic Cigarettes Part 1: Do E-cigs Help People Quit Smoking?
754 - A Public Health Emergency: Syphilis Surges in the Great Plains Region
753 - The Health Care Crisis At the U.S.-Mexico Border Part 2: Border Walls and Traumatic Brain and Spinal Injuries
752 - The Health Care Crisis At the U.S.-Mexico Border Part 1: Children and Families
751 - The New Federal Regulations Aimed Making Methadone More Accessible—And Less Stigmatizing
750 - World Malaria Day: From Lab to Legislature—Meet the Scientists Taking on Capitol Hill in the Fight Against Malaria
749 - Planetary Health: Thinking About The Earth Crisis As A Humanitarian Crisis
748 - Studying Sewage to Fight Infectious Diseases: An Update From The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics at the CDC
747 - The Lack of Research Around Type 1 Diabetes
746 - Why Cigarettes Are So Bad for the Environment
745 - A Conversation With Dr. Antonia Novello, Former Surgeon General
744 - The Power of Positive Childhood Experiences
BONUS - Coping With The Psychological Aftermath of The Collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore
743 - What You Need to Know About H5N1, The Bird Flu Spilling Over Into Mammals
742 - What You Need To Know About PFAS, Or "Forever Chemicals"
741 - Xolair: The First Drug For Severe Food Allergies
740 - The Forgotten Youths Who Are Caregivers For Their Families
739 - How an 1882 Play, The Enemy of the People, is Helping Communities Heal from the Trauma of COVID-19
738 - Why Syphilis Is On the Rise
737 - Secretary Xavier Becerra on the 14th Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
736 - World Water Day: How Water Can Be a Powerful Force to Bring People Together
735 - De-medicalizing Menopause
734 - How Hospital Infection Control Has Changed Since COVID
733 - Projections of Excess Deaths in Gaza Over the Next Six Months
BONUS - How "Illiberal" Is Public Health?
732 - Bringing Back Condoms to Prevent HIV
731 - A Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation
730 - Women's History Month: A Conversation With Sue Baker, the "Mother of Injury Prevention"
BONUS - COVID-19 Updated: The CDC's New Isolation Guidelines, Vaccines For People Over 65, and New Variants
729 - Hidden Food Insecurity: The Adolescents Who Aren't Getting Enough to Eat
728 - Methadone Access for Incarcerated Pregnant People
727 - What The Conviction of a Parent of a High School Shooter Could Mean
726 - Substandard and Fake Drugs
BONUS: The Alabama Supreme Court's Ruling on Frozen Embryos
725 - "An Unforgiving Virus" Measles Hits the U.S.
724 - Social Media and Adolescent Health
723 - The White House's Initiative to Eliminate Hepatitis C
722 - Healing City Baltimore: How A City Is Responding to A Mental Health Crisis
721 - Preventing Alcohol Misuse, Use Disorders, and Deaths
720 - Medical Diagnostic Errors Are a Public Health Emergency
719 - The Two Major Abortion Cases Coming to the Supreme Court
718 - Why So Many Babies Didn't Get RSV Vaccines This Winter
717 - An Update on Efforts to Prevent Tobacco-Caused Death and Disease
716 - The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
715 - An Update on COVID Research with Katelyn Jetelina, Your Local Epidemiologist
BONUS - Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War
714 - The Risks of Psychotic Symptoms With Cannabis Use in Younger People
713 - The Disappointment of COP28
712 - All About Ketamine
711 - The State of Rural Health
710 - Tradeoffs—Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?
709 - Discrimination Against Patients With Substance Use Disorder in Health Care Settings
708 - Invasive Anopheles stephensi Could Redefine the Epidemiology of Malaria in Africa
707 - 'playing god?' - A Bioethics Podcast
706 - What Happens To Our Skin in Winter?
705 - Psychological Autopsies To Prevent Suicides
704 - Preventing Armed Insurrection: Gun Policies to Protect Public Health, Safety, and Democracy
BONUS - The Humanitarian Response in Gaza
703 - Living Healthier and Longer in New York City
702 - Backstage at Public Health On Call: 2023 Year in Review with Dr. Josh Sharfstein, Stephanie Desmon, and Lindsay Smith Rogers
701 - An Outbreak of a Microscopic Parasite in Baltimore's Water Supply
BONUS - Human Rights and Health Care in the Middle East Crisis
700 - The Pros, Cons, and Unknowns of Ozempic
699 - An Update on the CDC's New Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics
698 - Why Tuberculosis, an Ancient Disease, Remains a Public Health Threat
697 - The 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
696 - Peacebuilding to Help Mend A Broken World
BONUS: What We Know—And Don't Know—About Atypical Canine Respiratory Disease
695 - The Shortage of Stimulant Medications for Kids with ADHD
694 - World AIDS Day: Why The World's Most Lifesaving AIDS Program is in Danger
693 - DoxyPEP: A "Morning-After Pill" for STIs
692 - How Migration Affects Human Health
691 - Maryland's Public Defender Works to Keep Young People Out of Trouble
690 - A Conversation With Former Surgeon General Jerome Adams
689 - Do Overdose Prevention Sites Make Their Communities Less Safe?
688 - Red Flag Laws, Maine's "Yellow Flag" Law, and Preventing Gun Violence Through Policy
687 - Two New RSV Products to Protect Infants
686 - Some Practical Tips For Coping With Grief During the Holidays
685 - Still in Court: COVID Vaccine Mandates
684 - From Contraception to COVID to Climate Action, The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs Has Inspired Healthy Behaviors Worldwide for 35 Years
683 - In the West Wing With Dr. Ashish Jha, Former White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator
682 - The Surprising Benefits of Narrower Traffic Lanes
681 - All About Ringworm
680 - How Genomics is Helping Scientists to Understand Why There Is Local Malaria Transmission in the U.S.
679 - October 28 is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
678 - The Urgent Need to Conserve Groundwater
677 - Fighting For The Right to Contraception Access
676 - Could We Genetically Modify Mosquitos to Die From the Diseases They Carry?
675 - How Phone Calls Can Help Combat Loneliness
674 - An Update on Ukraine
673 - Dietitian Influencers On Social Media Are Being Paid By the Food Industry to Promote Products and Messages
672 - What Studying The Nipah Virus Can Tell Us About Investigating Spillover Events
671 - Treating Substance Use Disorders in Pregnancy—How Improper Policies Are Resulting in Child Removal
670 - When Health Care Providers Don't Listen to Their Patients
669 - How We Talk About Disability
668 - Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls
667 - RxKids—Flint, Michigan's Cash Allowances For New Parents
666 - The Institute for Global Tobacco Control Turns 25
665 - Bankruptcy and Purdue Pharma
664 - Disaster Planning For Extreme Weather
663 - The Impact of Health Care on Climate
662 - National Food Safety Education Month: What a Health Department Does to Keep Our Food Safe
661 - Why is Methadone So Hard to Get?
660 - The CDC's 9.11 World Trade Center Health Program
659 - What You Need To Know About the Juvenile Justice System
658 - What Happened to the Doctors Spreading Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
657 - The Consequences of Abortion Restrictions Part 2: Denials of Medical Care
656 - The Consequences of Abortion Restrictions Part 1: Spotlight on Texas
655 - Are We At A Tipping Point For Climate Change?
654 - The Evidence—and Lack Thereof—About Cannabis
653 - Back to School: How One K-8 School Is Getting Ready for the Fall
652 - How to Extend Life Expectancy: Pay for Health, Not Just Health Care
651 - The Indoor Air Quality Act: Mandating Clean Air in Public Spaces
650 - How to Make Sure Food is Available in a Crisis
649 - Tradeoffs—988 Turns 1: Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year
648 - Pandemic Learning Loss Will Take Years To Reverse
647 - The Zombie Episode: Pandemics in Science Fiction
645 - Taplines Podcast: Who Killed Four Loko?
646 - ChatGPT and Public Health
EP 644 - From the Archives: What Do Diet Sodas Have to Do With Our Microbiome?
643 - A Look Ahead at COVID, Flu, and RSV Vaccines for Fall with Dr. Andy Pekosz
642 - Last Year Was A Big Respiratory Viral Mess. Will We See The Same Again This Year?
641 - What Can We Learn About Medicine from What Iconic Sci-Fi Movies Get Wrong?
638 - This Ability Clinic's Dr. Stephanie Van on Disability Advocacy, Accessibility, and Appreciation
640 - Inside the Humanitarian Response to the Destruction of Ukraine's Kakhovka Dam
639 - Why Hearing Aids Could Help Slow Cognitive Decline in People at Risk of Dementia
637 - Why Are So Many Pedestrians Getting Struck and Killed By Cars, and Why Aren't We Doing More To Stop It?
636 - RAP Club: A Mental Health Program that Brings Coping Skills and Mindfulness to Schools
635 - Dr. Meena Seshamani is on a Quest to Make Medicare Personal
634 - Vital Talks: What if Public Health Fueled Social Reform Movements
633 - The Far-Reaching Impacts of Drug Shortages Affecting Cancer Treatments
632 - Investigating the Why of Suicide: Maryland's New Suicide Fatality Review Committee
631 - Vital Talks: How Donor Dynamics are Shaping Public Health
630 - Why Are Some Humans' Scents More Preferable to Mosquitoes?
629 - Alcohol Use as a Risk Factor for Gun Violence
628 - Scientists in Exile: When Researchers and Clinicians are Forced to Flee
627 - Workplace Mental Health and Well-being
EP 626 - Katelyn Jetelina, "Your Local Epidemiologist," on The Benefits and Harms of Active Assailant Drills and the Widespread Impacts of Mass Shootings
625 - Tackling Housing Injustice—and Improving Childhood Asthma
624 - The "Youngest Science:" Debates over Evidence During the Pandemic Within Medicine
623 - How to Talk About the Climate Crisis With Kids
BONUS - Another Air Quality Emergency in the US—2020 Wildfire Episode Re-release
622 - The State of Emergency Preparedness in the US
621 - The Health Consequences of Displacing People Experiencing Homelessness
620 - How The Opioid Settlement Tracker Is Monitoring $50 Billion
619 - A Conversation with Barkha Dutt
618 - Two Newly-Minted Public Health Graduates Share Their Mental Health Research
617 - Convocation Speaker Dr. Raj Panjabi on Facing Public Health's Unprecedented Challenges
616 - Lessons from the COVID War: 9-11 Commission Leader Philip Zelikow on Another National Disaster
615 - How a Unique Mental Health Model Developed After 9/11 is Helping Ukrainians Find Some Peace of Mind
614 - The Clinical Research Into Psilocybin as a Tool for Mental Health Treatment
613 - COVID Update: Variants, Vaccines, and No More "Boosters"
612 - The Xylazine Crisis
611 - Public Health in the Field: The Grassroots Revolution in Maternal Health
610 - Public Health in the Field: How Policy Can Help Solve the Black Maternal Health Crisis
609 - The Surge in Anti-Trans Bills and Attacks on LGBTQ+ Health
608 - What May Happen When the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends on May 11
607: How The FDA Can Help More People Stop Smoking
606 - What Happens Next with Mifepristone?
605 - World Immunization Week: The Big Catch-Up and Preventing a Large-scale Global Outbreak of Measles
604 - Malaria Advocates Go to D.C.: Meet the Americans Passionate About Ending Malaria For Good
603 - Adjusting for Reality: Rethinking Goals to Address Climate Change
602 - How The Use—and Overuse—of Antibiotics is Making Us Sicker
601 - How Health Care Algorithms and AI Can Help and Harm
Public Health in the Field: What is the Black Maternal Health Crisis and How Can It Be Solved?
599 - Book Club—"Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and the Health of Our Nation" with Linda Villarosa
BONUS: Mifepristone On Trial: An Unprecedented Overreach
598 - A Court Decision Reducing Access to Preventive Services Under the Affordable Care Act
597 - Intimate partner violence, guns and the courts
596 - Building a Better CDC
595 - How to be a Climate Advocate: Antha Williams on Bloomberg Philanthropies' Work to Tackle Climate Change and Improve Public Health
594 - Could Patent Reform Lower Drug Prices?
593 - Do COVID's Origins Still Matter?
592 - Anopheles Stephensi: The Invasive Mosquito Threatening to Worsen Malaria in Africa
591 - Avoiding Clots After Fractures: Why Clinical Research Matters
590 - Fatbergs Can Dance!? Behind The Scenes Of A Public Health Water Ballet
589 - World Water Day: Fatbergs — The Public Health Menace Beneath Our Feet
588 - Public Health and Food Assistance
587 - Entrepreneurship and Public Health
BONUS - Reducing Infant Mortality in West Baltimore
586 - Masks and COVID Again? Yes, Masks and COVID...again
585 - Hidden in Plain Sight Part 3: Stories About the Powerful—and Often Invisible—Public Health Forces That Shape Our Lives
584 - A New Type of Overdose Response
583 - Are Self-driving Cars Safe?
582 - Hidden in Plain Sight Part 2: Stories About the Powerful—and Often Invisible—Public Health Forces That Shape Our Lives
581 - The Kids are Not Alright
BONUS - When Will the Bird Flu Outbreak End?
580 - The Community Role in Fighting the Pandemic—and Beyond
579 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Making Sure Public Health is Part of the Climate Change Equation
578 - Does Cancer Screening Save Lives?
577 - Congressman Elijah E. Cummings: A Force for Health
576 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Natalia Linos on Why We Should Embrace the Fact That "All Public Health Is Political"
575 - What's Next for Prescription Drug Pricing?
BONUS - The Aftermath in East Palestine, Ohio
574 - The Earthquake in Syria and Turkey
573 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Catherine Flowers on the "Secret Sauce" of Elevating Local Environmental Issues to the National Agenda
572 - Can U.S. Life Expectancy Declines be Reversed?
571 - Hidden in Plain Sight Part 1: Stories About the Powerful—and Often Invisible—Public Health Forces That Shape Our Lives
570 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Persistence is Key In Climate Change Action
569 - Literally Saving the Planet
BONUS - Tradeoffs: Can Creating New Career Pathways Solve Shortages in Long-Term Care?
568 - A New Law To Enhance the Safety of Cosmetics
567 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Bernadette Demientieff and the People of the Gwich'in Nation Want You To Know That We're All Connected
566 - What is "Immunity Debt"?
565 - A New COVID Landscape in China
564 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Howard Frumkin on How Environmental Health = Our Health, and Why There's Empirical Evidence For Hope
563 - Controversy over Deaths in Custody
562 - The Pandemic is Not Over
561 - A Supreme Court Case That's a "Big Deal" for Public Health
560 - Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
559 - How to Be a Climate Change Advocate: Gina McCarthy On Helping People Want Change Without Being Afraid of It
558 - "It Was Compromised": The Trump Administration and CDC, with Congressman Bill Foster
557 - What's Happening With Abortion Access Six Months After the SCOTUS Decision
556 - Backstage at Public Health On Call: 2022 Year in Review with Dr. Josh Sharfstein and Stephanie Desmon
555 - Special Episode—Conversations on Critical Topics: The Bloomberg American Health Summit
554 - A Bleak Winter? Modeling the Next Six Months of COVID, Flu, and RSV
553 - The World's Most Dangerous Fungi
552 - The Historic Floods in Pakistan
551 - The Massachusetts Pediatric Injury Equity Review—A New Process for Reviewing Pediatric Injuries in Order to Prevent Them
550 - "Take Nothing For Granted With This Virus"—The Latest on COVID Treatment and Vaccines
549 - Treating Substance Use Disorder in Pregnancy
548 - Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) and the Dual Crises of Nurse Shortages & Post-Roe Fallout
547 - "Could You Pass the Peace, Please?" How to Handle Difficult Conversations at the Thanksgiving Table
BONUS - Oregon's Measure 114: Reducing Gun Violence by State Referendum
546 - The "Liver Lady"
545 - A Conversation with the "Drug Czar": New Directions for the National Drug Control Strategy
544 - The Increase in Gun-Related Deaths During the Pandemic
543 - A Global Snapshot of Family Planning and Reproductive Freedom
542 - COVID-19's Long-term Neurological Problems
541 - "There Weren't Enough Greek Letters"—Keeping Track of COVID-19 Omicron Variants
540 - What Happens When the COVID-19 Emergency Declarations End?
539 - When Surges of Respiratory Disease Meet a Mental Health Crisis
538 - The Political Determinants of Health
537 - Death and Public Health Part II: Environmental Impacts of the Funeral Industry and "Green Burials"
536 - Death and Public Health Part I: How to Talk About Death and Dying
535 - Public Health's Role at the Intersection of Climate Change and Advocacy
534 - The Overturning of Roe vs. Wade, 3 Months Later
533 - COVID in Oklahoma
532 - Flint, Jackson, and Beyond: Infrastructure Failures in U.S. Cities
531 - Redefining the Challenges of Foster Care
530 - The Devastating Floods in Pakistan and the Role of Climate Change
529 - The Chutzpah of Public Sector Leadership
528 - Why the Health of Indigenous People Impacts Us All
527 - The White House's National Action Plan On Long COVID
526 - YouTube's Dr. Garth Graham on Social Media and Misinformation
525 - Bivalent COVID-19 Booster Updates: Dr. Andy Pekosz on Efficacy, Recommendations, and More
524 - Just How Far Did Students Fall Behind During COVID-19?
523 - Methadone Prevents Overdose, So Why Is It So Hard to Access?
522 - Malaria Mondays Miniseries Part II: Why Haven't We Eradicated Malaria?
521 - All About COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
520 - A COVID Snapshot with Dr. Tom Inglesby: Where We've Been, Where We Are, and Where We're Headed
519 - Malaria Mondays Miniseries Part I: How Malaria's Weird Biology Is Its Secret to Success
518 - Why the FDA's Approval of OTC Hearing Aids is a Game Changer
517 - Expanding Health Care Access for Undocumented Individuals
Bonus - Not Just a Water Crisis: The Decline of Jackson, Mississippi
516 - Operation Good Food and Beverages: A Youth-Led Movement to Reverse Racialized Marketing of Foods to Black Americans
515 - Fighting for Public Health in 2022: A Conversation with Andy Slavitt
Bonus - The Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi
514 - How the Reversal of Roe v. Wade is Already Disrupting Lifesaving Health Care
513 - What the Inflation Reduction Act Means for Medicare and Drug Pricing
512 - FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf on Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines, Combating Misinformation, and Building Trust
511 - How to Minimize Risks of COVID—and Other Infectious Diseases—During Air Travel
510 - Jailed and Pregnant: What the Roe Repeal Means for the Incarcerated
509 - The Threat of Polio
508 - Back to School: COVID, New CDC Guidance, Monkeypox, and More with Keri Althoff and Liz Stuart
507 - Everything You Wanted to Know About COVID Rebounds and Weren't Afraid to Ask with Dr. Amesh Adalja
506 - A Climate Change Activist Reacts to the Climate Change Bill
505 - Monitoring the Monkeypox Response with Dr. Caitlin Rivers
504 - Confirming a Wuhan Seafood Market as the Origin of COVID-19
503 - What's Happening With COVID Globally—Variants, Second-Generation Vaccines, and a Worrying Flu Season Down South
502 - New Mexico's Neglected Alcohol Problem
501 - Meeting America's Public Health Challenge: Recommendations for Building a National Public Health System
500 - How Did Mpox Become a Public Health Crisis?
499 - How States Can Spend Billions From Opioid Litigation to Curb the Opioid Epidemic
498 - Why the Supreme Court Ruling on the EPA Isn't The End of Fighting Climate Change
497 - Juul vs. The FDA: The Failed Promise of E-Cigarettes
496 - The Sharp Rise in Overdose Deaths Among Black Americans
495 - The Science of Mindfulness
Bonus — Tradeoffs Special Episode: Struggling to Staff the Nation's New Crisis Line, 9-8-8
494 - Beyond "Drill and Fill"—Oral Health Is Critical to Overall Health, So Why Isn't It Considered Part of Medicine?
493 - Development Impact Bonds—An Innovative Approach to Financing Global Public Health Projects
492 - Book Club—Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER with Dr. Thomas Fisher
Bonus - Microchipping, Conspiracy Theories, Ivermectin, and More: Dr. Josh Sharfstein Answers Viewer Questions Live on C-SPAN
491 - What's Happening in Florida? Politics, COVID Vaccines, and the Firing of Dr. Lisa Gwynn
490 - Urban Heat Islands: Why Is It So Much Hotter in Cities Than Suburbs?
489 - Book Club—Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe with Keith O'Brien
Bonus - Tradeoffs Special Episode: Medical Respite—Too Healthy to be Hospitalized But Too Sick to be Unhoused
488 - An Update on Omicron Subvariants with Dr. Andy Pekosz
487 - Friday Q&A: Dr. Crystal Watson Returns to Answer Your COVID-19 Questions
Bonus - A Conversation With an Mpox Patient
486 - Special Episode: Public Health In the Field—Did COVID Change Tourism for Good?
485 - The NBA and COVID-19
Bonus - Overturning Roe v. Wade and Public Health
484 - Lyme Disease: Diagnosis, Prevention, and How Long COVID is Helping to Advance Awareness and Research for Chronic Lyme
Bonus - The Supreme Court's Decision on Guns
BONUS - Responding to Gun Violence With Effective and Fair Solutions
483 - The Movement for a Global Pandemic Treaty
482 - Reflecting on Juneteenth with Dr. Janice Bowie
Bonus: What You Need to Know About the Novavax COVID-19 Protein-Based Vaccine
481 - How We Talk About Suicide Matters: A Free Course for Journalists
480 - MONDAY Tattoo Parlors and the War on Melanoma
479 - Another COVID Summer—What's Changed and What Hasn't
478 - A Trauma Surgeon and Shooting Survivor Speaks Out: How to Make This Moment a Turning Point for Gun Violence
477 - Unpacking Unexplained Hepatitis in Children
476 - The U.S. Food Safety System
475 - COVID-19 Vaccines For Kids 5 and Under
474 - What We Know—and Don't Yet Know—About the Leaked Supreme Court Draft Opinion That Could Overturn Roe v. Wade
Bonus - The Massacre in Uvalde, Texas
473 - Police Legitimacy and Reform Two Years after George Floyd's Murder
BONUS - Where We Are in the Pandemic: A Check-In with Epidemiologist Dr. David Dowdy
BONUS - What You Need to Know About Monkeypox
472 - Learning from 1 Million COVID Deaths and Preparing for "The Contagion Next Time"
EP 471 - A Talk With a Public Health Graduate: Caitlin Ceryes, Class of 2022
470 - President Biden's Strategy to Address the National Mental Health Crisis
469 - The Mental Health Crisis Among American Youths
468 - Dr. Tom Inglesby Returns From the White House COVID Team
467 - A Talk with an Alaskan Public Health Nurse
466 - An Update on Ukraine's Humanitarian Crisis
465- A Special Mother's Day Episode
464 - How Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Is Causing a Global Food Crisis
463 - Is COVID-19 Aging Us?
462 - Friday Q&A With Dr. Amesh Adalja
461 - How COVID-19 Became a "Watershed" Moment for Wastewater Surveillance
BONUS - The Obstacles Slowing Down America's "Test-to-Treat" Program for COVID-19
460 - World Malaria Day: Genetically Modified Mosquitoes
459 - Advances in Treating Hospitalized COVID Patients
458 - A National PrEP Program to End the Nation's HIV Epidemic
457 - Black Public Health
455 - The Public Health Consequences of Russia's Disinformation About Ukraine's Biosecure Labs
454 - How Hospitals Can Help Prevent Gun Violence
453 - Why It's Still Too Soon to End the US's COVID-19 Emergency Response
452 - Making COVID-19 Decisions Amid Uncertainty
451 - Ready Or Not? The Trust For America's Health Report Assessing States' Public Health Emergency Preparedness
450 - An Update on COVID-19 Vaccines With Dr. Anna Durbin and Dr. Bill Moss
BONUS - 988 is the New 911 For Mental Health Crises: A Special Episode from the Tradeoffs Podcast
449- The Center for Gun Violence Solutions: Where Science and Advocacy Merge
448 - New Zealand's World Class COVID Response
447 - How Kraków is Caring for the Health of 200,000
446 - California's New COVID-19 Approach
BONUS: China's Zero-COVID Policy
BONUS - Here We Go Again: The BA.2 Version of Omicron
445 - Disease X and Preparing for the Next Pandemic
444 - An Update on A National Weather Service Model for Epidemics
443 - How Russia May Impose Deadly Public Health Policies on Ukraine
442 - "No Temporary Scaffolding" in Chicago's COVID-19 Response
441 - Navigating "The Great Unmasking" With Keri Althoff and Elizabeth Stuart
Bonus - War Crimes and Russia's Bombing of Mariupol Maternity Hospital in Ukraine
BONUS - Ukraine's Humanitarian Crisis
440 - "It Really Spared No One"—Covid-19's Long-term Heart Problems
439 - The Nursing Crisis With Nurse Alice
438 - A Look Back At March 2020 With Dr. Josh Sharfstein
437 - COVID-19 in Columbus, Ohio
436 - The Primary Care of COVID-19
435 - Research Update: Sex and Gender Differences and COVID-19
434 - Vaccinating Virginia
433 - Recognizing W.E.B. Du Bois and His Seminal Work on Racism and Health
432 - Fighting COVID as A Respiratory Disease
431 - Mental Health Check-In With Clinical Psychologist Dr. Laura Murray: 2 Years Into the COVID-19 Pandemic
430 - How to Talk to Parents About COVID-19 Vaccines For Kids
429 - Book Club—Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America with Journalist Beth Macy
428 - Building Back Public Health in Indiana
427 - Candida auris: A Yeast to Fear
426 - Why Are Health Disparities Everyone's Problem?
BONUS - The 2022 Pandemic Olympics
425 - The Supreme Court, COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, and OSHA's Charge to Keep Worker's Safe
424 - So You Want to Lead a Public Health Agency?
423 - Assessing the World's Knowledge of COVID-19: A Global Survey of Attitudes and Behaviors Towards the Virus, Vaccines and More (Season 5)
422 - Rehabilitation and Care for People With Long-COVID, or PASC (Post-Acute Sequela of COVID)
421 - Why Omicron Is Such "A Different Animal" When It Comes to COVID and Kids
420 - "Dangerously Unprepared": Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo on the Global Health Security Index's Newest Findings
419 - COVID-19 in Lincoln, Nebraska: The Mayor's View
Bonus - The COVID-19 Pandemic's Transition Phase with Dr. Monica Gandhi: What Questions Do We Need to Ask and What Answers Do We Need to Find in 2022?
418 - Update: COVID-19 Vaccines and Immunocompromised Patients
417 - An Update on Convalescent Plasma for COVID-19
416 - Will President Biden's Infrastructure Bill Address the Historical Legacy of Racist Transportation Policies?
415 - Modeling the Omicron Wave
BONUS: Omicron Update—The Good, The Bad, and the Unknown
414 - The Disappointing State of Global Vaccination for COVID-19
413 - Rethinking the US COVID Strategy
412 - Backstage at Public Health On Call: 2021 In Review with Dr. Josh Sharfstein and Stephanie Desmon
411 - The Bridge Between "Science and the Sanctuary": Building Trust In COVID-19 Vaccines With Communities of Faith
410 - Omicron in South Africa: The Latest News
409 - Viral Mutations and Global Vaccinations
408 - Public Health Forward: A Bipartisan Report About the Future of the Public Health System
407 - Navigating Another COVID Holiday Season
406 - Better Together: Helping Young People at Risk for Addiction
Bonus - The Latest on Omicron
405 - International Finance for COVID Vaccines
404 - How Colombia Weathered One of the World's Most Severe COVID-19 Outbreaks
403 - World AIDS day: The Impacts of the COVID Pandemic on the HIV Pandemic
Bonus - The Omicron Variant
402 - Special Episode: Public Health In The Field—The Supreme Court and Abortion in Mississippi
401 - School in the Time of COVID: A Tour Of Hampstead Hill Academy
400 - Can Spillover—How Viruses Move From Animals to Humans—Be Prevented?
399 - Aaron Dante, Host of the Award-Winning No Pix After Dark Podcast, Talks COVID with Dr. Josh Sharfstein
398 - Public Health In Crisis
397 - How Reducing Salt Could Reduce Chronic Diseases
Bonus - Denmark and COVID-19
396 - Special Guest: The Assistant Secretary For Health, Admiral Rachel Levine
395 - The Health Care Situation in Afghanistan
BONUS: Checking In With A COVID Long-hauler
394 - The State of COVID On Campus At The University of Michigan
393 - Friday COVID Q&A With Dr. Amesh Adalja
BONUS - How A Program that Connects Pediatricians With Schools Helps Prevent Chronic Absenteeism in Washington, DC
392 - Idaho's COVID-19 Crisis Standards of Care: Low Vaccination, Full Hospitals, and Difficult Decisions Around Who Gets Ideal Care
BONUS - The FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 Vaccine for Kids Ages 5-11—What's Next?
391 - Underappreciated: The COVID-19 Pandemic's Mental Health Effects On Non-Clinical Health Care Workers
390 - Halloween Episode: All About Bats
389 - The Perfect Storm Behind Ongoing COVID-19 Misinformation
388 - An Update on COVID-19 In Nursing Homes and Long-Term Care Facilities
387 - Why We Need Better (and More!) Masks Before the Next Pandemic
Bonus - How COVID Is Pushing People Out Of and Into Public Health Careers: A Special Episode From The Tradeoffs Podcast
386 - What To Expect From This Year's Flu Season
385 - How COVID-19 Is Impacting Kids' Vision
384 - COVID-19 Research Update: The Value of Masks & Testing in Schools
383 - Molnupiravir: The Game-changing Oral Antiviral Pill for COVID-19?
Bonus - Why COVID-19 Policy is About More Than Just "Following The Science"
382 - Indigenous Peoples' Day: Un-Erasing America's History
381 - How the Pandemic Has Opened Our Eyes to Our Relationship with Nature
380 - Vaccines for Pets and Zoos? An Update on Animals and COVID-19
BONUS - The Latest from Louisiana: A COVID-19 Delta Surge + Hurricane Ida
379 - Mental Health Check-In With Dr. Laura Murray: Where Are We in the COVID-19 Pandemic?
378 - What Might the Next Six Months of COVID-19 Look Like in the US?
COVID-19 Boosters Q&A With Dr. Josh Sharfstein
377: An Update on COVID-19 and India
376 - Rethinking Herd Immunity and COVID-19
375 - All Things COVID-19 Testing With Dr. Gigi Gronvall
374 - COVID-19 in Mississippi
373 - Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?
372 - Book Club: Perilous Medicine—The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War
371 - Appreciation and Hostility: Working With COVID-19 Patients
370 - VoteER: Helping Patients and Providers Vote Like Their Health Depends On It
369 - How 9-11 and Anthrax Changed Public Health
368 - COVID-19 and Protecting Our Kids
Bonus - Suicide Prevention and Muslim Americans
367 - HIV Among Women in Abusive Relationships
366 - The Microbiome Episode
365 - The Politicization of COVID-19 Vaccines
364 - The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates
BONUS - COVID and Extended Unemployment Benefits
363 - How COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Have Played Out
362 - COVID-19 and Vaccine Mandates
361 - Friday Q&A With Dr. Amesh Adalja
Bonus - Caring for Kids with COVID-19 in Florida
360 - Book Club: Gender Bias On Women's Health
359 - The Back-to-School Episode
BONUS - Treating Addiction in Jails and Prison
358 - Are Hospitals Breaking the Law?
357 - The Link Between Evictions and Rising COVID-19 Cases
356 - Climate Disruption and Our Health
355 - COVID-19 in the Land Down Under
BONUS - How Worried Should the Vaccinated be About Delta?
354 - A Public Health Official Is Fired in Tennessee
353 - How Delta and Low Vaccination Rates are Feeding a Deadly Surge of COVID-19 in Missouri
352 - COVID-19 Research Update: The Delta Variant
351 - A Vaccine with that Haircut? Barber Shops and the Fight Against COVID-19
350 - Book Club: A Meningitis Outbreak from Pharmaceutical Compounding
349 - Mucormycosis: The Black Fungus Killing COVID-19 Patients in India
348 - Mental Health Before, During and After the Pandemic
347 - COVID-19 Vaccines Update: Boosters, FDA Approval, New Vaccines, and More
346 - Vermont's Response to COVID-19
345 - How COVID-19 May Change Our Culture For Good
344 - "The Work Undone": The 40th Anniversary of AIDS and Lessons For the COVID-19 Pandemic
343 - Combating Global Vaccine Hesitancy
342 - COVID-19 Vaccines and Children
341 - COVID-19 Research Update: The consequences of COVID
Bonus - The Promise and Perils of the Lung Cancer Screening Tool: Tradeoff's Dan Gorenstein Talks to Experts and Patients About Early Detection Vs Unnecessary Treatments
BONUS - What the Delta Variant Means for Vaccinated and Unvaccinated People
340 - The Future of the Public Health Workforce after COVID-19
339 - The Lows and Highs of Native American Communities' Struggles With COVID-19
338 - Tying the Hands of Public Health
337 - The Tokyo Olympics and COVID-19
336 - How You Can Support the US Vaccine Effort
BONUS - The American Health Podcast: The Facts About Waste
335 - Investing in Health Equity
BONUS: Inside a COVID-19 Field Hospital
334 - COVID-19 Vaccines and Immunocompromised People: Fully Vaccinated And Not Protected
333 - Gun Violence Prevention: Interrupting Gun Violence in Urban Neighborhoods
BONUS - The American Health Podcast: Nearly Expired Meat and Understocked Produce—Differences in Food Retail Quality Between High- and Low-Income Communities in the South
332 - COVID-19 Research Update: How Well COVID-19 Vaccines Work Against Variants
331 - COVID-19 Variants and Young People
BONUS - The American Health Podcast: The Public Health Response to Human Trafficking
329 - Will There Be a Fall 2021 Resurgence of COVID-19 in the US?
330 - Gun Violence Prevention: A Focus on Police Violence
328 - Laying the Groundwork for a COVID-19 Commission
327 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part V: Disrupting the School-To-Prison Pipeline
326 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part IV: Listening to Young People
325 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part III: How Racism Keeps Black Men In Poverty
324 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part II: The Link Between Voting Rights And Meaningful Police Reform
323 - Remembering and Honoring George Floyd Part I: Examining the Psychological Impacts of Racialized Police Violence
322 - Becoming a PhD During the Pandemic: A Conversation with Asari Offiong
321 - COVID-19 Testing Update
320 - Does In-Person Schooling Put Families At Risk of COVID-19?
319 - COVID-19, Kids, and Summer: Thinking Ahead About Camps, Vacations, and Family Fun
318 - Gun Violence Prevention: What a Study of Mass Shootings Tells Us About How to Prevent Them
317 - Book Club—Jonathan Cohn and The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage
316 - Nepal's Growing COVID-19 Crisis
315 - Climate Change and Mental Health
314 - COVID-19 and Weight Gain
313 - Stopping Gun Violence Before It Starts: How Community-Based Violence Prevention Programs Keep People Safe
312 - What Do We Need To Do to End the COVID-19 Pandemic, What Does An Ending Look Like, and How Close Are We?
311 - A Baltimore Public School Reopens
BONUS - The COVID-19 Crisis In India
310 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Family Planning
309 - How the COVID-19 Crisis in a Vaccine-Generating Powerhouse Like India Took Hold, and What This Means for the World's Supply of Other Life-saving Vaccines
308 - Ghost Guns: Untraceable DIY Firearms
307 - An Update on COVID-19 in Canada with The Dose's Dr. Brian Goldman
306 - The Dire COVID-19 Crisis in India
305 - "Red Flag" Laws: Extreme Risk Protection Orders and What Went Wrong in Indiana
304 - COVID-19 and the Amish and Mennonite Communities of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
303 - A Digital Problem With An Old-School Solution: COVID-19 Vaccinations in San Francisco
302 - COVID-19 Research Update: Reinfection
301 - Earth Day: Why COVID-19 Has Caused an Increase in Ocean Pollution
300 - COVID-19 Vaccines and People with Disabilities
299 - Baltimore's Mobile Vaccination Teams: Meeting People Where They Are
298 - Why The US Needs a Marshall Plan for Vaccines With Congressman Jake Auchincloss
BONUS - Pressing Pause on the Johnson and Johnson Vaccine
297 - The Arithmetic of Compassion: How Psychology and Literature Help Explain the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
296 - Making Safe Decisions During the Race of "Infections vs Injections"
295 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees and People in Conflict Zones
294 - Dr. Michael Osterholm on the Race Between COVID-19 Variants and Vaccines, How the Pandemic Looks Different than a Year Ago and How Children are More at Risk Now
293 - Female Sex Workers and the Police
292 - National Public Health Week Finale: Georges Benjamin on Mending the Broken System Post-COVID-19
291- We Stand With Public Health Part 4: Solutions
290 - We Stand With Public Health Part 3: The Challenges Facing Health Departments
289 - We Stand With Public Health Part 2: By the Numbers
288 - We Stand With Public Health Part I: The Harassment of Health Officers During COVID-19
BONUS EPISODE - Regreso a Clases en Persona: La Pandemia y El Aprendizaje
287 - A COVID-19 Silver Lining: The Child Tax Credit and Other Game-Changing Programs for Families in the American Rescue Plan Act
286 - COVID-19 and the Arts Part 3: Virtual Showtime at The Apollo Theater
285 - COVID-19 and the Arts Part 2: Performing Arts and the Pandemic with Marin Alsop
284 - COVID-19 and the Arts Part 1: What Has Been Lost and What We Can Regain
283 - Where Are We in the Pandemic? Friday Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo from the Center for Health Security
282 - The Crisis of Declining Life Expectancy in the US—Before, During, and After COVID-19
281 - The Importance of Genomic Surveillance for COVID-19
280 - An Update on Incarcerated People, COVID-19 and Vaccines, and New Insights About Pregnant Inmates
279 - Why Europe's AstraZeneca Situation is Reassuring—COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Update with Dan Salmon
278 - COVID-19 Research Update: Obesity and COVID-19
277 - COVID-19 and POTS—Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome
276 - A COVID-19 Update from a North Dakota Hospital
275 - How a Former Twisted Sister Roadie Is Getting Thousands of People Vaccinated Every Day
274 How the Pandemic Could Help Fix Health Care Post-COVID-19
273 - "This Is Our Shot": A Digital Campaign to End the Pandemic, One Vaccine At a Time
272 - Understanding the CDC's New COVID-19 Guidance for Vaccinated People
271 - COVID-19 and Immunosuppressant Drugs
270 - How to Talk About Climate Change and COVID-19 With YouTube's ClimateAdam
269 - COVID-19 and Diabetes
268 How did the COVID-19 pandemic begin?
267 - When Will Children Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19?
266 - Caution and COVID-19: Why Vigilance Still Matters
265 - Monica Gandhi and Vaccine Optimism
264 - Why Helping to Vaccinate the World Against COVID-19 is in America's Best Interests
263 - Healing from the Grief and Trauma of COVID-19
262 - A National Weather Service for Epidemics?
261 - The Pandemic "Baby Bust": The Disruption of COVID-19
260 - The Intersection Between the Crisis of Democracy and the COVID Pandemic
259 - The Politics of COVID-19: How Worldview Influences Willingness to Follow Public Health Guidance
258 - COVID-19 Research Update: Schools
257 - A COVID-19 Long-hauler Shares His Story
256 - A Good Time to Be Born: A Conversation with Dr. Perri Klass
255 - Why Workers in Nursing Homes and Care Facilities are Declining COVID-19 Vaccines: Tradeoff's Dan Gorenstein Talks to Staff and Experts About the Problem and Possible Solutions
254 - Sleep Issues and COVID-19
253 - Schools Week Finale: Is It Safe to Reopen US Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
252 - A Principal Gets Ready to Reopen During the COVID-19 Pandemic
251 - Dr. José Ramón Fernández-Peña and How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Impacting Pre-Med and Undergraduate Students
250 - An Update on the Impacts and Opportunities of COVID-19 on Schools
249 - COVID-19 and Chicago's Public Schools
248 - Dating in a Pandemic
247 - An Update on COVID-19 in Brazil
246 - Do Pandemics Really End? What We Know From the 1918 Flu and a Brief History of Vaccine Resistance
245 - COVID-19 Research Update: Reinfection in a Health Care Worker, Why Men Might Experience More Serious Disease, and a Look at an Inhaled Antiviral Treatment
244 - Why a Global Health Organization Let Most of its U.S. Employees Go
243 - Vaccine Week Finale: Q&A with Dr. Josh Sharfstein
242 - Will COVID-19 Vaccination Be Required for the Workplace?
241 - Understanding and Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy—A Two Part Episode
240 - Considering Ethics and Equity in Vaccinating a Nation—A Two-Part Episode
239 - VACCINE WEEK: Maine's Top Health Officer Dr. Nirav Shah on the Complicated Logistics of Vaccine Distribution
238 - New Year, Same Problems? Mental Health Q&A with Laura Murray
237 - Declarations of Racism as a Public Health Crisis: A Policy Tool for Real-World Solutions and Meaningful Change
236 - Rethinking the US COVID-19 Response
235 - COVID-19 and Senior Housing
234 - State Health Departments and Vaccine Distribution Challenges
233 - Why There Are Fewer COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Cantabria, Spain Than the Rest of the Country
232 - The COVID-19 Variants Explained
231 - COVID-19 and Low-Income, Undocumented Latino Immigrants
230 - COVID-19 Vaccines and the Opportunity to Build Trust Between Health Care Institutions and the Black Community
229 COVID-19 Vaccines Q&A: The Two-Dose Strategy, Speeding up Rollouts, and Very Normal Side Effects
228 - Health Commissioner Dr. Monica Bharel on Massachusetts' Unique Approach to COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts
227 Psychological Distress Among Latinos During COVID-19
226 - COVID-19 in Assisted Living Facilities and the Special Challenges with Alzheimer's Disease
225 - The Challenges With Communicating COVID-19 Prevention Measures
BONUS: Backstage at Public Health On Call
224 - COVID-19 Q&A featuring Drs. Josh Sharfstein and Caitlin Rivers
223 Dr. Michael Osterholm on Rising Cases, Vaccine Rollouts, and Getting Through What is Both "The Best and Worst of Times" in the COVID-19 Pandemic
222 - Overdose and the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Harm Reduction Movement
221 - Why COVID-19 Cases in Africa Are Much Lower Than Expected
220 - Overdose and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Breaking Through Bureaucracy With High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area
BONUS: Public Health On Call—Season 3 Trailer
219 - What Went Wrong? The CDC and COVID-19
218 - The Health Impacts of Climate Change
217 - How Youth Serving Organizations Can Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
216 - Economist Dr. Emily Oster on COVID-19 and Schools
BONUS: Overdose and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Dr. Chinazo Cunningham and the Challenges of Providing Patient-Centered Treatment During the Pandemic
215 - Considering Holiday Travel During COVID-19
214 - The Ongoing Process of Determining COVID-19 Vaccines Safety
213 - The New Technology Behind COVID-19 RNA Vaccines and What This Means for Future Outbreaks
212 - Racism As a Public Health Crisis: Black Men's Health
211 - Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley on Targeted COVID-19 Restrictions
210 - Overdose and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Obama's Drug Czar Michael Botticelli on America's Opioid Epidemic
209 - COVID-19 Transportation Safety: Holiday and Everyday Travel, Autonomous Vehicles, and Preparing for Future Pandemics
BONUS - ICU Nurse Lacie Gooch on Nebraska's Horrific Outbreak and a Desperate Plea to "Take COVID Seriously" Ahead of the Holidays
208 - The Opioid Epidemic: What's Next With Purdue Pharma's $8.3 Billion Settlement and How COVID-19 is Intensifying The Public Health Crisis
207 - The Center for Communication Programs and COVID-19 Messaging From Around the World
206 - Friday Q&A With Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo From the Center for Health Security
205 - Racism As a Public Health Crisis: Environmental Injustice
BONUS - National Injury Prevention Day
204 - Denmark's Mink Situation and an Update on Pets and COVID-19
203 - Can COVID-19 Vaccines Be Mandatory in the US and Who Decides?
202 - Kaiser's Chief Health Officer Dr. Bechara Choucair On COVID-19 Response
BONUS - Dr. Josh Sharfstein on Pfizer's Vaccine and Next Steps
201 - Overdispersion of COVID-19: Why A Small Percentage of People May Be Responsible for the Majority of Transmission
BONUS - World Pneumonia Day
200 - The Logistics and Ethics of Distributing COVID-19 Vaccines
199 - What We Can Learn From The Success of the NBA's COVID-19 Bubble
198 - Why Women Are Dropping Out of the Workforce During COVID-19 and What the Long-term Impacts May Be
197 - What We've Learned About How COVID-19 Spreads
BONUS - Fixing Chronic Underinvestment in Public Health and Prevention: COVID-19's Unexpected Opportunities to Chart a Path to a Healthier Future
196 - Contact Tracing for COVID-19 in New York City
195 - Racism As A Public Health Crisis: The Impacts of COVID-19 and Racism on Kids, Education, and Health
194 - Research update: COVID-19 Vaccines and Older Adults, COVID and Pregnancy, and the Potential of Rapid Tests
193 - Suicide Prevention and COVID-19
192 - An Update on COVID-19 Treatments: Monoclonal Antibodies, Convalescent Plasma, Remdesivir and More
191 - Friday Mental Health Q&A: Dealing with Election Anxiety, Hard Decisions About Holiday Plans, and COVID Fatigue
190 - Election Series: What's At Stake With Gun Policy
189 - Election Series: What's At Stake With Health Care—Preexisting Conditions, Medicaid Expansion, and Drug Pricing
188 - Election Series: What's At Stake With Climate Change and the Environment?
187 - Election Series: What's At Stake With Immigration
186 - COVID-19 Friday Q&A with Dr. Amesh Adalja from the Center for Health Security
185 - Doctors Coping with COVID: Tradeoffs's Dan Gorenstein Interviews Dr. Albert Wu About the Mental Health of Frontline Health Care Workers
184 - The US's Coronavirus Response: A 1:1 with Anthony Fauci
183 - The Second COVID-19 Lockdown in Israel
182 - Provost Dr. Michael Kotlikoff on How Cornell University Has Kept Campus Case Counts Low
BONUS - Debunking the "Herd Immunity" Strategy
181 - Friday Q&A: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
180 - Thinking Through The Fall and Winter Holidays During COVID-19: Innovative Ways to Gather and Celebrate
179 - Why a COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Participant Feels Better Than Ever About COVID Vaccines
178 - How COVID-19's Misinformation Storm May Impact the Election
BONUS - An Opportunity For a Full Scholarship to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Through the Bloomberg Fellows Program
177 - Indigenous People's Day—A Day for Correcting Misunderstandings About the Past and Appreciating Opportunities for the Future
BONUS - Voting Safety and COVID-19
176 - Friday Q&A with Dr. Josh Sharfstein on the Week in COVID
175 - A Congressional Health Office to Score Federal Legislation
174 - A Testing Expert Breaks Down The Different COVID-19 Tests and Their Pros and Cons
173 - The COVID Theater Think Tank That's Figuring Out How to Let the Show Go On
BONUS - Breaking News: The White House COVID Outbreak
172 - COVID-19, the Flu, and Johns Hopkins Hospital with Infection Prevention Director Dr. Lisa Maragakis
171 - The Supreme Court Vacancy and What's at Stake for the Affordable Care Act, Access to Firearms, and Reproductive Rights and Health
170 - COVID-19 Surveillance in the Sewers: What Wastewater Can Tell Us About Outbreaks and Community Health
169 - Online Learning with Baltimore Public School Principal Matt Hornbeck
168 - A Theory on Blood Clots and COVID-19
167 - Hygiene Theater: The Deep Cleaning Performances That Offer Little Protection from COVID-19
166 - Mental Health Friday Q&A with Clinical Psychologist Dr. Laura Murray
165 - Wes Moore on Freddie Gray, the Black Lives Matter Movement, and Why Policing is only Part of the Problem
164 - Economist James K. Galbraith on COVID-19
163 - Sports Safety and COVID-19
162 - Mayor Walt Maddox on Tuscaloosa, the University of Alabama, and COVID-19
Bonus - What The Massive West Coast Forest Fires Mean For Our Health
161 - Friday COVID Q&A With Dr. Tom Inglesby from the Center for Health Security
160 - Iceland's Pandemic Strategy
159 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health and the Rapidly Escalating Opioid Crisis in Chicago
158 - The COVID-19 "Long-Haulers" Who Remain Debilitated Months After Diagnosis
157 - From the Flint Water Crisis to the COVID Pandemic: An interview with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
156 - Friday Q&A: The Dangers COVID-19 Poses to the Heart With Cardiologist Dr. Nisha Gilotra
155 - How Indoor Ventilation Systems Can Help Prevent or Permit the Spread of COVID-19
154 - Dr. Tom LaVeist on How To Think About and Address Inequities Revealed by COVID
153 - Curating COVID-19 Research: The Novel Coronavirus Research Compendium
152 - Our Own Josh Sharfstein, a former FDA official, on Politics & the U.S. Food and Drug Administration