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Public Health Out Loud — 182 episodes
Meeting People Where They're At to Support Recovery
Community-Led International Overdose Awareness Day Efforts Fuel Action to Save Lives
Was It Something I Ate? Avoiding Cyclosporiasis and Other Foodborne Illnesses
Don't Touch Raccoons...and Other Rabies Prevention Tips
Preparing the Workforce for a Healthy Rhode Island
Keep Calm and Carry On: How States and People Can be Prepared for Biothreats
More Than Just Swimming Lessons: Everyone Plays a Role in Water Safety
Preventing Gun Violence: What Does the Evidence Show?
Lights, Camera, ACTION: New Film Aims to Improve Care
The Blunt Truth About Cannabis-Impaired Driving
Beyond What the Eye Can See: The Problems With Microplastics
Kindness Wins - Strategies to Prevent Bullying
Dress Warm and Donate Blood! How Bad Weather and More Impacts the Blood Supply
World-Dominating Consciousness or Helpful Tool? A Look at How AI is Revolutionizing Healthcare
More Than Just Soap: How Hygiene Insecurity Affects Our Communities
Health on the Rocks: The Harms of Excessive Alcohol Use
Flu, COVID, RSV, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree: Preventing Respiratory Viruses During the Holiday Season
No Matter Why You Use
Young People Have the RIght to Know
Tylenol - Is There Evidence of Harm?
All About Animal-Assisted Therapy
A Lot to Lose: Understanding the Warning Signs of Problem Gambling
Looking Out for Each Other: Preventing Suicide in our Communities
A Physician and Father's New Book Raises Awareness of Cancer Prevention
Perfect Nutrition: A look at Breastfeeding Benefits, Support, and the State's Strategies for Success
There When You Need Them: Celebrating Community Health Centers
Evidence of Harms: Cannabis Use and Family Planning
What’s the Story? Using Data to Improve Health Equity
You Good, Man? A Conversation About Men's Mental Health
Disorders, Syndromes, and Even Psychosis - the Downside to Cannabis Use
Impacting Quality of Life with Palliative and Hospice Care
Elder Care: The Importance of Planning Ahead at Any Age
Cause for Concern or Typical Behavior? A New Resource Helps Guide Children's Behavioral Health
Addressing Sexual Assault Where You May Least Expect It
The Science Behind Safe Infant Sleep
Carbon Monoxide: The Silent Killer
How to Keep Measles From Making a Comeback
Increase Return On Investment and Support Employees With Recovery-Friendly Workplaces
Preventing HIV Like a Champ!
Is Something Dangerous Lurking in Your Home?
A New You in the New Year with the Community Health Network
Setting the Record Straight on Fluoride
Same Old Tricks: Keeping Tobacco Industry Marketing on Rhode Island's Radar
The Rhode Island Rental Registry: Your Questions Answered
Data Tells a Story: What We Know About Intimate Partner Violence and How it Affects Us All
We All Play A Role in Preventing Suicide
Raising Awareness of Sepsis: Know the Signs to Save a Life
It's Hurricane Season. Are you Prepared?
Celebrating the Roles of Community Health Workers
RIDOH's New Director Jerome Larkin Talks Priorities, Tick Prevention, and More
Family Visiting Supports: There for You When You Need Them
A Refugee's Dream - Help for Those Who are New to the U.S.
The Latest on Avian Influenza From Two Local Experts
A Life-Long Researcher's Take on Dementia and Other Diseases of Aging
What Does Healthy Aging Look Like?
All About Physical Therapy
National Mental Health Awareness Month: Exploring Conditions and When to Seek Treatment
Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Everyone Should Know, Especially First Responders
The Surprising Effects of Mindfulness on Blood Pressure
Celebrating Fifty Years of WIC
What You Need to Know About Congenital Syphilis
How One Rhode Island Organization is Helping to Put Children's Teeth First!
What it Takes to be Prepared for a Public Health Emergency in RI
A Critical Need: The Life-Saving Importance of Blood Donation
Overdose Prevention by the Numbers: How Improving Data Collection Helps Save Lives
A Deadly Drug Supply: What's Being Done to Keep RI Communities Safe?
Past, Present, and Future - A Conversation About Public Health
Coming Up Short: Fewer Primary Care Physicians Impacts RI in a Big Way
Tornados, Flooding, and Heat Waves, Oh My! An Honest Talk About Climate Change
Preventing Domestic Violence by Addressing the Root Causes
Promoting Equity in Oral Health is a True "Mission of Mercy"
A Must-See Documentary About Those Hiding In Plain Sight
What College Students and Their Supporters Need to Know About Preventing Sexual Assault
A Look at Community Acupuncture - The Science, Accessibility, and Potential Benefits
Talking About Ticks: Understanding and Preventing the Diseases Ticks Carry
Staying Safe Under the Sun - Expert Skin Cancer Prevention Tips for Summer
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley Talks Health Priorities for the Capitol City
Medicaid: How Insurance is Changing Post-Pandemic and Will It Impact You?
Today’s Mental Health Crisis: Impacts and Advice from a Local Expert
Lessons in Environmental Health and Crisis Communications from the Ohio Train Derailment
Food as Medicine: How Our Diet Impacts Health
What’s in Rhode Island’s Local Drug Supply?
Gonorrhea & Drug Resistance: A Major Public Health Threat
Monkeypox Mythbusters: Season 2 Finale
Healing through Storytelling
Tobacco: Know the Health Effects and How to Quit
Veterans' Health
A Discussion with Former Fla. Surgeon General
Long Covid: Get the Facts
Refugee Health
How to Prepare for the Next Pandemic
Domestic Violence: Know the Red Flags and Resources
Why Breastfeed Baby?
Tuberculosis: Not a Disease of the Past
Crossroads: How Do Homeless Services and Public Health Intersect?
From Reactive to Proactive: Transforming Primary Care
The Evolving Role of Pharmacists in Public Health
Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics... Oh My!
Trauma-Informed Care: What is it and Why Does it Matter?
Housing Instability: Health Outcomes and Solutions
Harm Reduction Centers in Rhode Island Will Be Among First in the Nation
How Did They Get Here? Dr. McDonald & Dr. Chan's Journeys to Public Health
Not Your Average Vending Machine: How Rhode Island Dispenses Free Harm Reduction Tools 24/7
Positive Childhood Experiences and Their Impact on Health Outcomes
Fostering Trust in Public Health
Delivering Healthcare in Correctional Settings
Medical Ethics Before and During COVID-19
“With or From COVID-19": Data on Deaths, Hospitalizations, and Vaccine Effectiveness
Emergency Vaccine Distributions: Challenges & Successes
“Healthcare Heroes”: Recognizing Nurses During COVID-19
What Can We Do About Climate Change?
How Childhood Experiences Impact Our Health
Facts and Fiction of COVID-19 Treatment
Healthcare Policy and Reform
The Future of Neonatal Care in a Drop of Spit
Natural Immunity vs. COVID-19 Vaccine. Which is better?
Gut Check: Get the Facts on IBD
Is Omicron Ominous?
Public Health Resolutions for 2022
On the Hunt for a Malaria Vaccine
RI State Senator Talks Health Equity and Harm Reduction Centers
Dr. Megan Ranney on the Pandemic’s Evolution and “Long COVID”
Tips for a Healthy Holiday Season
Forever Chemicals: What You Need to Know About PFAS
COVID-19 Vaccine for 5-11: "Another Piece of Armor"
Flu Forecast: 2021
How to Prevent Lead Poisoning: “An Invisible Threat”
An Alphabet Soup of Viruses: RSV, Flu, and COVID-19
How the Federal Government Responded to COVID-19
Healing Mother and Baby: Supporting Pregnant and Parenting People Through Recovery
COVID-19 and the Importance of Emergency Preparedness
Let’s Talk About Sex Part 2: How Conversations Between Partners Can Enhance Sexual Health and Happiness
Let’s Talk About Sex Part 1: Why Conversations With Kids Should Go Beyond the Birds and the Bees
Should Adolescents Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? Yes.
Rhode Island’s Buprenorphine Hotline: A Pathway to Recovery
What COVID-19 Taught Us About Health Equity
Children's Health Part 1: Pediatrics in the Time of COVID-19
Children's Health Part 2: Back to School Special
A Conversation with Tom Coderre from SAMHSA
Dr. Rodriguez Part 2: Why RI's smallest town had such high COVID-19 case rates
Dr. Rodriguez Part 1: Spotting “Fake Science” on Social Media
Season 2 coming July 30
Reflections on COVID-19
The Impact of Unstable Housing on a Recovery Journey
Should the COVID-19 Vaccine be Required? And Other Ethical Questions
Notes from a Peer Recovery Specialist
Behind the Scenes at the State Health Lab
How to Prevent an Overdose
Food Insecurity and the Sugary Drink Tax
Misinformation and the Attack on Science
COVID-19 Variants, Explained
The Twindemic: Substance Use During COVID-19
The Data We’ve Been Waiting for on Vaccine Safety and Pregnancy
New Baby? Share A Room, Not a Bed
The Hidden Dangers of Vaping
Tackling the Big Question: To Play or Not to Play
COVID Chronicles: Stories of Resiliency from Essential workers
Pulling the Sheets Off STIs
The Air That I Breathe: Ventilation As a Line of Defense
Making Sense of Convalescent Plasma
United We Stand, Divided We Fell
Faith Leader Offers Lessons Learned from COVID-19
Have States Responded to COVID-19 Differently?
What Happened to the Flu: Did it Fly Away
COVID-19 in a Correctional Facility
Administering Vaccines: Who Gets to Go First
COVID-19 Variants and Vaccines
Seeking Safe Harbor During COVID-19: Homelessness in Rhode Island
How Safe Are Vaccines: Wading Through the COVID-19 Vaccine Myths
My Cancer Story: Personal Narratives of Resilience
COVID Explained: Making Sense of Information
Welcome to Pandemic University: Starting College During a Pandemic
Long COVID: How Long is Long
Treading Through the Health Insurance Landscape: What You Need to Know
A Musician’s Perspective: The Pandemic is Not Music to My Ears
A First for the Nation: Hospital Helps Moms-To-Be Cope with Stresses of Ongoing Pandemic
Curious About a COVID-19 CURE?
To Test or Not to Test – That Is One of the Many Questions
COVID-19 and Vaccination Consternations: Science Fiction Didn’t Get it Right
A Very Different America: Did We Meet the Demands of COVID-19?
Epidemics, Pandemics, Syndemics: What Does This Mean Anyway?
Pandemics: Future, Past, and Present: Should We Wave Goodbye to the Handshake?