Public Health Perspectives

Dr. Lloyd Novick talks with Michael Fraser, Chrissie Julianno, and Brian Castrucci about COVID-19 and Public Health: Looking Back, Moving Forward, a new supplemental issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

Dr. Mohamed Al-Ibrahim shares information on the Pfizer clinical trial he is working on to help find a vaccine for COVID-19.

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick describes articles appearing in the November-December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which focuses on surveillance of infectious disease attention to COVID-19.

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick highlights new articles appearing in the September 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which focuses on evidence-based public health.

Dr. Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Alan Beck, project coordinator at the Prevention Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis, about Heartland Moves, a project funded by the National Cancer Institute that aims to increase physical activity (PA) in rural populations in southeast Missouri.

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, highlights new articles in the July 2020 issue that focuses on COVID-19.

Dr. Molly Gutilla and Dr. Allison Chamberlain discuss a new collaborative initiative between Emory University and the Georgia Department of Public Health to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Dr. Lloyd F. Novick talks with Dr. Betty Bekemeier, director of the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice at the University of Washington about a new 90-minute contact tracing training program that is now available. The training, Every Contact Counts, will support public health agencies' ability to expand contact tracing efforts to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

Gulzar Shah and Karl Peace discuss the role of information systems and data analytics in surveillance of COVID-19, the state of clinical trial research focused on assessing the efficacy and safety of potential interventions to prevent or treat COVID-19, and the benefits of generating a database of clinical trials for meta-analysis of trials' results? Do such databases exist for COVID-19 clinical trials in the US?

In the sixth episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Christiaan Abildso speaks with Lisa Charron, Project Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Population Health Institute.

Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Peter Watts, an elections law attorney in Oregon, about the importance of using plain language when sharing information with public audiences. As a city attorney who often writes ballot titles for taxes and levies in state and local elections, Peter has learned that using legalese and technical jargon can confuse voters and impact election results, particularly when the audience includes immigrants, non-English or limited-English speaking voters, or those with lower education levels.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Louise Hyneman, a St. Louis University MPH student, discusses her public health journey. Her experiences and interests surround working with food insecurity, like her internship with the St. Louis Area Food Bank. Louise also has an interest in economic development as a potential way to work towards sustainable changes in health outcomes.

In the fifth episode of Views from the Front Porch, Dr. Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Cindy Perry, the Elizabeth N. Gray Distinguished Professor and an Associate Professor at the Oregon Health and Science University School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon. Cindy has blended her personal and professional interests to weave together an extensive line of community-based participatory research with predominantly Latinx communities in Oregon to address health disparities with physical activity.

Dr. Justin B. Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Dr. Jenine K. Harris, author of a new statistics book for social scientists called Statistics with R: Solving Problems Using Real-World Data.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, host Camelia Singletary speaks with Jade Conway, an MPH student at St. Louis University. Jade's work primarily focuses on maternal and child health, on both a domestic and global scale. Her most recent public health experience took her to Mpunde, Uganda. As a part of a project entitled Empower Through Health, she and her colleagues have had the opportunity to perform quantitative and qualitative community health needs assessments and focus group discussions to assist in understanding and prioritizing community needs and identified public health needs for the Buyende District and the catchment area of the Mpunde Health Center of rural eastern Uganda.

In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with Dr. Michael Fraser, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), about articles published in the May/June 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. This issue focuses on the opioid epidemic.

In this episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Dr. Christiaan Abildso talks with Dr. Noah Lenstra, Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Noah approaches rural physical activity using his expertise in library sciences and his personal upbringing in a town of about 3,000 people in northwestern Illinois that, like many rural places, suffers from health disparities in chronic diseases.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Dr. Mehrete Girmay discusses some of her current work surrounding loneliness and isolation. Dr. Girmay is currently a Public Health Analyst for the Health Resources and Services Administration in the Office of Health Equity. As an advocate for health equity and social justice, her research has been focused on investigating social determinants of health on a national and global scale

Drs. John Marr and Lloyd Novick continue their conversation on COVID-19, this time discussing serological testing for COVID-19 virus as a component of a smarter public health strategy, a strategy that has been suggested by Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York. As Dr. Novick notes in the following podcast, the New York State Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory has excellent past experience with performing mass serological testing for HIV in the newborn and other at-risk populations. Two articles by Dr. Novick et al describe how in a 21/2-year-period HIV serological testing was done for more than 650,000 specimens on newborns. This is a marked underestimate of capacity since serological testing at that time included other groups including those attending sexually transmitted disease clinics and family planning clinics. This experience shows that with a concerted effort large-scale testing of the population is possible.

In this episode of the Editor’s Podcast, Dr. Novick speaks with Colleen Barbero, Lindsay Cloud, and Lance Gable about Advancing Legal Epidemiology, a new supplement published March 2020 in the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.