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Rebecca Carroll’s new memoir details her experiences as a Black child raised by adoptive white parents in rural New Hampshire. This week on NEXT, Carroll talks about “Surviving The White Gaze.” Plus, epidemiologist and physician Dr. Sandro Galea on the impact of structural issues on public health — and how we should prepare for the next pandemic. And we learn about the practice of “green” burials, and why they’re becoming more popular.
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In this episode, guest host Dr. Jill Sonke is in conversation with four authors from HPP's Arts Supplement. They talk about how art has a key role at the heart of what public health is trying to do, go beyond the physical benefits of dance, and elevate cultural kitchens. This metaphor sparks a deep conversation the validity of art and its ability to build trust with communities. Dr. Sonke is in conversation with Dr. Sandro Galea from the Boston University School of Public Health, Maria Rosario Jackson from Arizona State University, Sunil Iyengar from the National Endowment for the Arts, and David Leventhal from the Dance for PD program.
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If you're struggling and feeling physically exhausted a year into this pandemic, you are far from alone. Mental health care providers say a lot of people are right there with you. They also say it's a normal reaction our bodies are having to very abnormal times. NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee reports.
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Precision medicine approaches hold enormous promise to focus diagnostic approaches and potentially to improve treatment opportunities over a range of diseases. However, the promise of these approaches has largely lagged their achievement. The role that context plays in shaping our response to treatment is, in no small part, responsible for this promise-achievement gap. Population health science offers an approach to understand how we can integrate influence at various levels—from individual to environmental—in prevention and treatment. A forward looking agenda then integrates the building blocks of precision medicine and population health.
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Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University School of Public Health, discusses the race to get people vaccinated before more Covid outbreaks occur. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Senior Trade and Globalization Reporter Shawn Donnan talk about how millions have tumbled out of the global middle class. Bloomberg News Wall Street Reporter Sonali Basak shares the details of Jamie Dimon's annual letter to shareholders. And we Drive to the Close with Leo Kelly, CEO at Verdence Capital Advisors.
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Long-term care residents might have thought getting vaccinated would mean more freedom, but now they face lockdowns due to outbreaks among unvaccinated staff. We talk to epidemiologist Dr. Sandro Galea and his dad, Emidio, who has just spent the last 14 days in his room; and Susan Mintzberg, a PhD candidate studying the impact of loneliness on seniors in the School of Social Work at McGill University.
Plus, many elders in the N.W.T. must move hundreds of kilometres to access care facilities as they age, cut off from their land and loved ones. We talk to elder and advocate Margaret Leishman in Kakisa, N.W.T., who wants more support for elders to age in place. Angela Grandjambe, housing manager for Fort Good Hope, tells us about a new facility that has just opened to allow seniors to stay close to their communities.
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Fundamentally, health is not health care. Decades of underinvestment in healthy environments, adequate education, safe workspaces and livable wages resulted in a country that was unhealthy and vulnerable to the ravages of a novel virus. The U.S. has had the highest per capita rate of COVID-19 infections throughout the pandemic.
This moment should teach us that avoiding the next pandemic will require us to rethink how we approach health, so there are no haves and have nots. It’s recognition that we cannot be healthy, unless we build a world with safe housing, good schools, livable wages, gender and racial equity, clean air, drinkable water, a fair economy.
It’s time to change how we think about health.
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Wednesday marks one year since Governor Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency in Massachusetts due to the COVID-19 outbreak. More than half a million Americans have died since then, but with vaccines rolling out across the country, hope is on the horizon. Dr. Sandro Galea, the dean of Boston University’s School of Public Health joined Jim Braude to mark the anniversary, look back at what we have learned, and discuss the challenges that still lie ahead.
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Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, provides a coronavirus and vaccine update. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg Businessweek Features Writer Ashlee Vance talk about a 27-year-old who became a Covid-19 data superstar. Bloomberg New Economy Editorial Director Andy Browne walks through his column “America Needs A China Sputnik Moment.” Bloomberg News Aerospace Reporter Julie Johnsson shares her insight on an engine explosion spurring Boeing 777 groundings in the U.S. and Asia. And we Drive to the Close with James Cakmak, Partner and Technology Analyst at Clockwise Capital.
Hosts: Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. Producer: Doni Holloway.
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There is growing evidence that the environment can play an important role in mental health—yet research into the effects of environmental stressors rarely focuses on behavioral and mental health outcomes. This virtual workshop will bring together experts in mental health and environmental health research to explore emerging research on the relationship, harmful or beneficial, between environmental factors and mental health.
Join us as we explore ways to better integrate mental and behavioral health into multidisciplinary considerations of environmental health, and consider how mental and behavioral health impacts could become part of environmental risk assessments and public health decisions.
Workshop presentations and discussions will focus on topics such as:
New diagnostic tools and methodologies in neurobehavioral research frameworks to assess mental health effects.
Vulnerable populations, such as marginalized communities, adolescents, first-responders, and veterans.
Identifying public health actions that could help reduce the mental health impacts of environmental stressors.
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Moderated by IHSP Associate Member Erin Strumpf, this session features a conversation with two eminent population health scholars, Sandro Galea and Martin McKee, on the relation between evidence and policy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis. Potential topics include: how public policy responses have evolved during the pandemic; how evidence has informed policy prescriptions (or not); what we’ve learned about policy effectiveness; and how we should prioritize population health research moving forward.
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This week, renowned epidemiologist Dr. Sandro Galea joins Steve Woods to talk about COVID-19, the status of vaccinations, and how finding cures shouldn’t be the sole focus when it comes to healthcare. Pathr AI CEO George Shaw also joins Steve to explain how businesses can use data gathered using artificial intelligence to reopen safely.
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to lay bare the deep health inequities ingrained in our society. Inequitable policies in our health, criminal justice, education, housing and employment systems have created the conditions that allow the virus to harm communities of color disproportionately. In the first event of our 2020-21 Health Equity Lecture Series, a panel of public health experts will discuss the legacy of discrimination reflected in health outcomes and the lessons we’ve learned from COVID-19 that can guide us toward building more equitable systems in the future. Includes 30 minute Q&A.
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Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University School of Public Health, provides a coronavirus and vaccine update. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Entertainment Reporter Lucas Shaw talk about Spotify betting big on podcasts as a path to profitability. Bloomberg News Cybersecurity Reporter William Turton discusses the article “‘No Regrets’: A Capitol Rioter Tells His Story From Inside.” And we Drive to the Close with Yana Barton, Co-Director of Growth Equity at Eaton Vance.
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Health is a product of a broad range of social and economic conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic showed how longstanding underinvestment in these conditions affected our overall health during a time of crisis and widened health gaps between racial/ethnic and socioeconomic groups. COVID-19 illustrates how our extraordinary achievement in biomedical science—evidenced by remarkable advances to a COVID-19 vaccine in record time—is not matched by commensurate achievement in creating the conditions that can generate health in populations.
Sandro Galea is a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature, and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.
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Matt, Chris, and Don are joined by Dean Sandro Galea for a live episode where we discuss a study that looks at whether decreases in COVID mortality are due to improvements in treatment, take audience questions, and Don measures our ears.
Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, provides a coronavirus and vaccine update. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Federal Reserve Reporter Chris Condon talk about the story “Fed Effort to Save Midsize Firms Isn’t Working and Here’s Why.” Bloomberg New Economy Editorial Director Andy Browne details a climate czar’s path through China. And we Drive to the Close with JJ Kinahan, Chief Market Strategist at TD Ameritrade.
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