When false beliefs undermine healthcare: Medical mistrust, disinformation, and motivated reasoning in 2025 and beyond

When false beliefs undermine healthcare: Medical mistrust, disinformation, and motivated reasoning in 2025 and beyond

Join our conversation with Dr. Joseph Pierre (author of False) as he unpacks how false beliefs and mistrust shape health decisions today-and what it means for the future of public health.

Touro's Social Justice Fellows Respond

Each episode of Socially Just explores a different facet of public health from politics, policies, research and community advocacy discussions from our Social Justice and Public Health Speaker series. The goal of our podcast is to provide public health perspectives for health, equity and social change. This year's series focuses on upstream and root causes of our nation's health crisis, driven by politics, policies and economics as critical determinants of health. Today's episode wraps up our first season with student reflections about each episode from our 2022 MPH Social Justice Fellows, facilitated by Jasmine Chisley.

Dr. Reuben J. Miller: Calling on Baldwin and Simone

Dr. Reuben Jonathon Miller, author of Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Incarceration: Halfway Home and a 2022 recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship award. Dr. Miller discusses his current work as a MacArthur Fellow and the intersectionality of art and storytelling in his work as a researcher - taking a deep dive into politics and policies as social determinants that drive mass incarceration and the collateral consequences that follow post release citizenship within a public health framework.

Kerby Lynch: Reparations as a Public Health Issue

Dr. Kerby Lynch, a government consultant for Ceres Policy Research and activist in the California reparations movement joins Socially Just for a fascinating and timely discussion on reparations is a public health issue.

Public Health Implications of Wrongful Conviction

Obie Anthony, Executive Director of Exonerated Nation discusses the impact of wrongful convictions on the health of communities. Mr. Anthony has a unique persective and insight into the complicated problems with our justice system having been framed and wrongfully convicted and later exonerated himself. Through his unique lens, Mr. Anthony poses solutions through policy change and advocacy.