Mar 31, 2021
Marking the one-year anniversary of the podcast, we are excited to announce new partnerships with the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the de Beaumont Foundation. In this episode, Frank speaks with Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of APHA, sharing reflections on this past year of the pandemic and...
Mar 17, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has the United States emergency healthcare workforce underwater. An average ICU physician will normally see eight patients per shift, but because of the pandemic, we are seeing doctors having to care for over twenty. In this episode, Dr. Patricia Pittman, the Fitzhugh Mullan Professor of Health...
Mar 10, 2021
With states reopening and lifting mask mandates, workers are at increased risk of exposure to COVID-19. Is it too soon to lift the mask mandates and how do workers protect themselves when employers won't? In this episode, Frank speaks with Dr. David Michaels, professor at GWSPH and former assistant secretary of OSHA,...
Mar 3, 2021
People are going to great lengths to get the COVID-19 vaccine shot. They are going online the instant a website opens, waiting outside pharmacies for hours, and even making appointments in other states. But while national attention is on the COVID vaccine, the use of other vaccines is dropping in the US and around the...