Healthy Intersections

Episode 19: Healthy Intersections Podcast: Racial Residential Segregation w/ Dr. Kristen Brown

Welcome! This month's special guest is Dr. Kristen Brown [https://www.kristenbrownphd.com/], a senior research associate at Urban Institute. We discuss her recent publication Still Separate, Still Not Equal: An ecological examination of redlining and racial segregation with COVID-19 vaccination administration in Washington DC [https://rdcu.be/dL1LF]. We talk about methods for measuring racial residential segregation and contemporary/historical redlining, and we discuss the implications of the paper's findings. Racial residential segregation in the US is persistent and associated with racial health inequities, including in COVID-19 infections, testing, and vaccination. For more details, visit https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-racial-segregation/ [https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-racial-segregation/].

Episode 18: Healthy Intersections Podcast: Celebrating Our Blogiversary

This month marks the 10-year anniversary (blogiversary) of The Medical Care Blog, where we focus on the intersection of public health and medical care [https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/five-years-of-blogging/]. To celebrate this milestone, we are dedicating this month's podcast to a blog-focused episode featuring special guests Greg Stevens and Ben King, co-editors [https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/editors/] of this blog (and absolutely wonderful colleagues). Visit the blog [%20https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-blogiversary-editors/]today to see the video for this episode and learn more about becoming a contributor!

Episode 17: Healthy Intersections Podcast: Local Climate Impact (August 2024)

This month's podcast features a roundtable on the new Local Climate Impact pilot project from the RTI Rarity [http://RTI.org/Rarity] team. Special guests Aditya Vadalkar, MS, Bahamin Ayla Akhtari, MS, and Sourabh Deshmukh, MS discuss our project, focused on three domains: climate-related risk, community resilience, and community vulnerability. We also present interactive maps of our in-progress dashboard [https://rarity.shinyapps.io/climate/] featuring California and Florida. The dashboard allows us to explore those states' current risk, resilience, and vulnerability along with simulation modeling of the potential local impact of climate change in the future. Episode video at https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-local-climate-impact/ [https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-local-climate-impact/]

Episode 16: Healthy Intersections Podcast: Ocean Health and Human Health

It's July, 2024. Happy summer! This month, we talk with Emily Parker, a marine scientist and advocate with Heal the Bay [https://healthebay.org], a nonprofit aquarium and institute based in Santa Monica, CA. The video below is an in-depth discussion of ocean health and human health — and how they intersect. Video and transcript at https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-ocean-human-health/ [https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-ocean-human-health/]

Episode 15: Healthy Intersections Podcast: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Dementias

June is Alzheimer's Awareness Month. To recognize the importance of brain health, we hosted a round-table discussion between Dr. Lisa Lines, principal investigator for the RTI Rarity project (RTIRarity.io); Chloe McGlynn, a research public health analyst at RTI; Dr. Vicki Johnson-Lawrence, social epidemiologist and community-based participatory researcher at RTI; and Dr. Jazmyne McNeese, an expert on race, wealth, and business ownership and senior data analyst at PolicyMap (PolicyMap.com). We discuss disparities in the prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease & Related Dementias, or ADRD, and explore some of the top modifiable risk factors for ADRD. We share ideas for improving access to care for people with ADRD and show how prevalence, and some of the top predictors, are distributed across the US. You can watch the video for this episode, and leave your feedback, at https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-adrd-2024-06/ [https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/?p=15690&preview=true&preview_id=15690].