1046 - "The Service is the Message": A Conversation with New York's Commissioner of Health
About this episode: Appointed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani earlier this year, Dr. Alister Martin is developing creative ways to make life healthi...
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1045 - What's Next for a New Lyme Vaccine
About this episode: A new vaccine shows 70% efficacy in preventing Lyme disease, but limitations to the clinical trials put the fate of this...
1044 - A Peek Behind the Curtain: A Conversation with Our Resident in Residence
About this episode: Amid a major turning point for the field of public health, physicians and public health experts are reckoning with their...
1043 - How Community Health Workers Improve Research
About this episode: Many people know community health workers for their work supporting clinical care and connecting people to resources. In...
1042 - The Red Hill Water Crisis: How Jet Fuel Contaminated the Water Supply of More Than 60,000 People
About this episode: A 2021 leak of jet fuel into the drinking water supply on O'ahu has caused neurological, gastrointestinal, and respirato...
1041 - World Malaria Day: Promising Tools for Elimination Amidst Research Cuts
About this episode: Exacerbated by cuts to research funding and on-the-ground interventions, malaria remains one of the deadliest and most b...
1040 - Growing Demand for Menopausal Hormone Therapies Brings Excitement—and New Concerns
About this episode: Following the FDA's removal of black box warnings for hormone therapy drugs, demand has skyrocketed for menopause treatm...
1039 - Spending Down Billions in Opioid Settlement Money: The Debatable, The Inventive, and The Innovative
About this episode: A collaboration between the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, KFF Health News, and Shatterproof is tracki...
1038 - Cannabis Use Disorder in Adolescents Linked to Other Psychiatric Conditions
About this episode: New findings suggest that, compared to adults with similar habits, teens with patterns of problematic cannabis use are a...
1037 - Chatbots, Mental Health, and Suicide
About this episode: People are increasingly turning to AI chatbots for therapeutic purposes—but these platforms are built for engagement, no...
1036 - Geopolitics and Humanitarian Health in Iran, Cuba, and Ukraine
About this episode: Humanitarian crises don't exist in a vacuum—they are shaped by geopolitical actions like blockades, sanctions, and armed...
1035 - The Epic Struggle for Public Health
About this episode: Public health efforts have led to tremendous gains throughout history—and sparked backlash. That's the argument made by...
1034 - An Update on Measles and the U.S.'s Elimination Status
About this episode: The U.S. is on track to surpass 2025's alarming number of measles cases in 2026. At the same time, the nation's measles...
1033 - Chemical Contaminants and Fungal Fixes in Wastewater and Agriculture
About this episode: Biosolids created by the wastewater treatment process are useful fertilizers in agriculture, but they often contain chem...
1032 - A Judge Rules on Vaccines
About this episode: A federal judge has halted changes from the Department of Health and Human Services to the childhood immunization schedu...
1031 - What is Prediabetes?
About this episode: Prediabetes—a diagnosis characterized by elevated blood sugar levels that can progress to Type 2 diabetes—is embroiled i...
1030 - An Endgame for the Tobacco Industry?
About this episode: Despite sizable decreases in tobacco use in high-income countries, 7 million people around the world die every year from...
1029 - What We Know About CTE
About this episode: A neurodegenerative disease that can only be diagnosed after death, CTE has made headlines for its prevalence in profess...
1028 - Vaccine Policy in the States
About this episode: As policy has shifted at the federal level, state legislatures are considering a broad range of vaccine-related bills. I...
1027 - The EPA's Approval of Two New Pesticides
About this episode: In late 2025, the EPA approved two pesticides for agricultural use that opponents argue contain PFAS—"forever chemicals"...
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