Public Health Perspectives

Dr. Lloyd Novick, Editori-in-chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and Dr. John Marr, American epidemiologist, discuss flattening the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and resource capacity of the American health care system.

Dr. Lloyd Novick, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, and Dr. John Marr, American physician, epidemiologist, and infectious disease outbreak expert, weigh in with where things might be headed next with coronavirus in the United States.

Dr. JP Leider, Dr. Betty Bekemeier, and Mr. Greg Whitman discuss the importance of standardization of financial information systems for public health practice and policy, particularly in the current COVID-19 crisis.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Lindsay Cloud and Lance Gable discuss legal epidemiology. Lindsay Cloud is the director of the Policy Surveillance Program at the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Lance Gable is an associate professor of law at Wayne State University and an expert on public health law and bioethics. Both Lindsay and Lance are authors in an upcoming supplement on legal epidemiology that will be available in February 2020.

Dr. Shaun Owens at the University of South Carolina's College of Social Work discusses the various innovative technologies he's using at the Healthy Aging Research and Technology (HART) Lab to help cancer patients make more informed decisions about screenings, biopsies, treatment, and survivorship.

Dr. Shaun Owens at the University of South Carolina's College of Social Work discusses the work he is doing at the Healthy Aging Research and Technology (HART) Lab to help older adults make informed health decisions about aging in place.

In the third episode of Views from the Front Porch, host Christiaan Abildso speaks with Dr. Jeff Whitfield, epidemiologist with the Physical Activity and Health Branch at the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about walking, physical activity, and the built environment in rural America.

Public Health Perspectives host Camelia Singeltary revisits with Episode 5 guest LaTonya Bynum to get an update on her work.

Dr. Gulzar Shah and Valerie Rogers discuss Smart Health Communities (SHCs) and their part in the move toward local and some state governmental systems to modernize and use innovation to support overarching health and wellbeing goals.

Dr. Mark Levine, Commissioner of Health for the Vermont Department of Health, discusses a new case study published in the Jan 2020 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, which chronicles the events of a near miss mass school shooting that happened in Vermont in 2018.

In the second episode of Views from the Front Porch, my guest is Dr. Michael B. Edwards, Associate Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at North Carolina State University. Mike’s research is guided by the idea that developing and managing socially responsible sport and recreational facilities, programs, services, and events will encourage more active lifestyles, reduce health disparities, and provide the tools for sustainable community development.

In this episode of JPHMP Direct Talk, authors Elena Grossman and Emily York discuss their article, "Minigrants to Local Health Departments: An Opportunity to Promote Climate Change Preparedness," published in the March/April 2019 issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice.

In this episode of the editor’s podcast, Dr. Justin Moore, Associate Editor, discusses articles that appear in the November/December issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. This issue's primary focus is on tobacco, but there are also a number of interesting articles that focus on social determinants of health.

Dr. Christiaan Abildso, host of Views from the Porch: Rural Physical Activity, speaks with Dr. M. Renee Umstattd Meyer about the creative solutions at the heart of rural communities.

Today Justin Moore, Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, speaks with Randy Schwartz about the importance of implementation science to public health.

This month, we shine the spotlight on JPHMP editorial board member Dr. Ross C. Brownson. Dr. Brownson has been a member of the editorial board since 2007. He is a leading expert in chronic disease prevention and in the area of applied epidemiology, and is regarded as one of the great intellectual, educational, and practice leaders in the field of evidence-based public health. Dr. Brownson has a joint appointment with Washington University’s School of Medicine in the Department of Surgery and the Siteman Cancer Center.

Vanesscia Cresci, Director of Research and Public Health at the California Rural Indian Health Board, and Rosalina James, Director of Evaluation and Research at the Urban Indian Health Institute, outline the role of Tribal Epidemiology Centers in improving the health of native communities and offer highlights of the research published in a new supplement issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice that focuses on Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Advancing Public Health in Indian Country for Over 20 Years.

In this episode of Public Health Perspectives, Dr. Abigail Gamble joins the show to talk about her community engaged research that focuses on healthy maternal and child outcomes for teenage mothers in the Mississippi Delta. Dr. Gamble is an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi Medical Center with faculty appointments in the Department of Preventive Medicine, John D. Bower School of Population Health, and the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine; Science Director for the Myrlie Evers-Williams Institute for the Elimination of Health Disparities; and investigator in the Mississippi Center for Clinical and Translational Research (MCCTR).

Sarah Nash, PhD, MPH, Director of Cancer Surveillance at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and Diana Redwood, PhD, MPH, an Epidemiologist at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, discuss their study, "Developing an Epidemiologic Study to Investigate Risk Factors for Colorectal Cancer Among Alaska Native People," which describes the process of working with tribal communities to initiate a research study of lifestyle and genetic risk factors for colorectal cancer in Alaska Native communities. The report is published in a special supplement issue of the Journal of Public Health Management and Practice -- Tribal Epidemiology Centers: Advancing Public Health in Indian Country for Over 20 Years.

Interview with Dr. JP Leider, an independent consultant in the public health and health policy space, as well as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Minnesota and Associate Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.