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The Public Health Insight Podcast is a roundtable conversational style podcast hosted by a diverse team of public health professionals. Ranked 7th on the ‘Top 15 Public Health Podcasts You M...

What really happens when a reviewer opens your MPH application? Host Gordon Thane has been on the other side of the table and what he saw mi...

By the end of your practicum, you'll land in one of three boxes — and you don't get to pick which one.. or do you? In this episode...

You can disagree on policy. You can't disagree on facts. In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, Dr. Brian Castucci unpac...

How often do public health organizations decide what a community needs — without actually asking them? This episode of the Public Health Ins...

What does it take to hit the ground running after grad school? For Alexandra Piatkowski, the answer started long before graduation — by deli...

Prevention is the most powerful public health tool we have and yet the hardest to fund. Dr. Hope Ferdowsian of Phoenix Zones Initiative expl...

Animal abuse is a predictor child abuse. Slaughterhouse locations correlate with violent crime. Over three-quarters of emerging infectious d...

Healing people requires healing animals and the systems we share. Dr. Hope Ferdowsian traces that conviction from a sheep named Crystal on a...

What if the prescription wasn't a pill, but cash? Rx Kids gives expecting and new mothers up to $7,500, no questions asked. Laura Keen...

Flint, Michigan was once known as one of America's most prosperous industrial cities. Decades of deindustrialization and a water crisis...

She studied philosophy at UPenn, sharpened her Spanish watching telenovelas with a host mom in silk robes and kitten heels, then moved to Pe...

Imagine surviving a snake bite only to battle depression for years. Half of hospitals can't properly treat snake bites and almost all h...

Right now, someone is being bitten by a venomous snake. Over the course of a year, 138,000 deaths and 400,000 disabilities. Yet snake bite r...

A young doctor faces a choice: wait in line after a lecture or go to the pub. He waits. Fast forward, he's on a plane to Papua New Guin...

Public health says "don't drink and drive." Bud Light says "don't let the party stop—have a designated driver". One feels like a l...

79% of Americans support childhood vaccine requirements—including the majority of Republicans. So why does it feel like everyone in the U.S....

If you just look at his resume, it sounds almost made up: Political Science at NC State, a Master’s at Columbia, a DRPH at UNC, and a decade...

Welcome to the Public Health Insight Podcast, where we go beyond the headlines to explore the ideas, challenges, and people shaping health i...

Find out why brilliant candidates still miss out on job opportunities and why Gordon thinks we’re in the midst of a job interview crisis, wh...

Collective action is the engine of public health transformation. In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, Dr. Vinu Ilakkuvan sh...

What if the real force shaping our health isn’t our doctor, our diet, or even our zip code - but the invisible hand of corporate power? In t...

What drives someone to leave a traditional career path and take on the hidden forces shaping our health? In this episode of the Public Healt...

What does it take to get vaccines to everyone who needs them? In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, Dr. Seth Berkley, former...

A billion children. Millions of lives saved. And you’ve probably never heard the full story—until now. In this episode of the Public Health...

When the world was in a health crisis, Dr. Seth Berkley didn’t just watch—he was at the centre of the storm. In this episode of the Public H...

How do we move from talking about health equity to making it a reality in public health practice? In this episode, we dive into the findings...

There’s a lot that we can learn from a nationally representative sample of public health workers from local and state health departments. In...

What does it take to turn health equity from a talking point into real, lasting change? In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast...

In the chaos of a global pandemic, clarity and trust became as vital as any vaccine. In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, D...

We treated the world as if everyone was living the same pandemic. But what if that was our biggest mistake? Dr. Tista Ghosh takes us inside...

From family stories of freedom fighters to the chaos of COVID-19, Dr. Tista Ghosh’s journey is anything but ordinary. In this episode of the...

Child trafficking isn’t just a distant headline—it’s a reality in many communities. In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, we...

What if we did a rethink of child trafficking—beyond criminology—and started seeing it as a public health issue, shaped by poverty, trauma,...

How do you help vulnerable kids not just survive, but thrive? Erin Williamson’s journey in social work and anti-trafficking reveals what it...

Vaccines have saved millions of lives, but questions and doubts persist. We dig into the roots of vaccine hesitancy, the history of immuniza...

What’s lurking inside in the environment, inside of us, and what’s waiting to emerge? Virologist Dr. Christopher Stobart joins the Public He...

Step into the invisible world of viruses, academia, and health research with Dr. Christopher Stobart, Associate Professor and virologist at...

What if we could vaccinate minds against misinformation before people encounter it? Dr. Stephen Barnard reveals the breakthrough science of...

What's the difference between an honest mistake and a deliberate lie? In this episode of the Public Health Insight Podcast, Dr. Stephen...

While Twitter was still seen as a platform for users to provide seemingly trivial updates, sociology graduate student Stephen Barnard began...

In the thrilling conclusion to our mini‑series with Dr. Don Weiss, we crack open three of New York City’s most chilling public health case f...

What does it take to track down an outbreak in one of the world’s busiest cities? Dr. Don Weiss reveals his step-by-step playbook for diseas...

A curious 8-year-old with a love for chemistry grows up to investigate some of America's most dangerous disease outbreaks—then risks hi...

The research that gave us COVID vaccines in record time, that's working on cancer cures, and that's preparing us for climate chang...

In 1970, a young man, from a paper mill town in Pennsylvania, borrowed his roommate's car and drove 11 miles to see a new medical schoo...

The Ottawa Charter offered a bold idea: that health isn't just shaped in hospitals or clinics, but in the everyday decisions we make ab...

One morning in February 2025, EngenderHealth received the kind of email every global health leader dreads—three major USAID grants were gone...

The path to global reproductive rights often begins in the most local of places—a single clinic, a single conversation, a single patient. In...

By 1981, the U.S. Surgeon General’s office was a shadow of its former self—no ships, no quarantine stations, barely a dozen staff, and one s...

Pediatric surgery as a specialty hasn’t been around for as long as you might think. Before 1946, it wasn’t even a line item in most hospital...