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Healthy You

Dec 18, 2019

Every year at the Milken Institute School of Public Health the Department of Alumni Relations hosts the Gibbs Oration, an all day networking event for national public health leaders, alumni and students to discuss the future of health care. Today on Healthy You we share part of Dr. Leana Wen’s lecture from the event....


Dec 4, 2019

For GWSPH Associate Professor Sabrina McCormick, filmmaking and public health has always been something that has interested her. On today’s episode of Healthy You we sit down with Sabrina to learn about her recent film, "Sequestrada" and her role as the producer. The movie, inspired by true events, is about the...


Nov 20, 2019

Have you considered joining a public health organization but don’t know which one to join? Today on Healthy You we speak with leaders of three GWSPH organizations Kafui Doe, MPH ‘09, Pierre Cartier, MPH ‘14, and William Montgomery, MPH ’20. They share what it’s like leading their respective organizations and...


Nov 6, 2019

Today we talk with GWSPH associate professor Monica Ruiz about her recent study on the benefits of syringe exchange programs. Over ten years Monica analyzed HIV cases in Philadelphia and Baltimore and found that syringe exchange programs prevented over 12,000 new cases of HIV. Monica shares why these programs need to be...


Oct 23, 2019

On today’s episode of Healthy You, we chat with Laura Venner a 2017 graduate of the Public Health Microbiology and Emerging Infectious Disease Masters Program at GWSPH. She tells us about her experience in the program and how the skills she learned helped her at veterinary school. Music from https://filmmusic.io...