Viral

Sex education should be accessible to everyone, right? Sometimes that's not the case. Linsey discusses her research and dissertation work focused on making sex education accessible for adolescents with intellectual disabilities. Join us for a great conversation!

We're also headed to Salt Lake City for the 2019 Society for Public Health Education Annual Meeting! If you're there too, feel free to say hi!  We're hosting a roundtable discussion on how to use podcasts as a tool for health education and promotion!

Intro/Outro Music: “Take Your Medicine” by The Quick & Easy Boys

One recurring theme of this show is that people throughout history have used religion and storytelling to explain what was then unexplainable. In today’s episode, Linsey and Quinn discuss Shapona, the Yoruba god of smallpox, and Endovelicus, the god of public health and safety in pre-Roman Lusitania (modern-day Portugal).

2019 is a big year for Viral – stay tuned for some re-releases of popular episodes and a bunch of new topics!

Intro/Outro Music: “Take Your Medicine” by The Quick & Easy Boys

Can civic engagement make a community healthier? Is voting a public health issue?  Uncle Sam wants YOU to find out the answers to these questions and more in our episode about the intersection of civic engagement and public health.  

 

Sources:

https://publichealth.wustl.edu/civic-engagement-robust-communities/

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4374501/

 

http://plan4health.us/civic-engagement-in-planning-can-improve-public-health/

 

https://www.cdc.gov/stltpublichealth/pimnetwork/eventdocs/2012/june/06282012slides.pdf

 

https://gradonline.sc.edu/articles/healthcare/why-community-engagement-matters-in-the-field-of-public-health.aspxhttps://ncoc.org/data-in-action/civic-health-public-health/

 

https://www.prb.org/differences/

 

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs.html

 

https://www.lwv.org/

 

Viral is written and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist.

Our theme is “Take Your Medicine” by the Quick and Easy Boys.
Visit us at www.viral-pod.com for more information.

Public Health deserves a gold star for vaccinations--and an asterisk acknowledging the dark history around its development.  We dive into the history of measles and talk about the anti-vaccination movement and how it's bringing this vintage disease back like hipsters and handlebar mustaches. 

Sources:  

• https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/measles-back-vengeance-anti-vaccination-movement-blame/
• http://pinellas.floridahealth.gov/newsroom/2018/08/measles-cases-8-28-2018.html 
• https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-anti-vaccination-movements 

Viral is written and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist.

Our theme is “Take Your Medicine” by the Quick and Easy Boys.
Visit us at www.viral-pod.com for more information.

We're back at it -- inoculating your mind against ignorance! Check out the second episode of transduction where we talk about two completely different public health topics!

Sources:

Link 1; Link 2; Link 3

Viral is written and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist.

Our theme is “Take Your Medicine” by the Quick and Easy Boys.
Visit us at www.viral-pod.com for more information.

Get ready to be inoculated with some surprising knowledge bits about interesting public health topics. We're not going to spoil the surprise, so sit back and enjoy the show! 

Link to Final Forms Article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/07/final-forms

Viral is written and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist.

Our theme is “Take Your Medicine” by the Quick and Easy Boys.
Visit us at www.viral-pod.com for more information.

How do we partner with others on new or non-traditional health issues like housing or climate change? How do we break down our silos across discipline, industry, and sector? We discuss strategies and lessons learned with Maria Sgambati and Carson Bell from Physicians for Social Responsibility in this episode of Viral.

What to learn more about PSR? Check out these links:

Physicians for Social Responsibility Florida: www.psrflorida.org 

PSR Report: Too Dirty, Too Dangerous: Why Health Professionals Reject Natural Gas: https://www.psr.org/blog/resource/fracking-too-dirty-too-dangerous/

My Green Doctor: http://www.mygreendoctor.org/

Contact information for PSR Florida:
Carson Bell:  carson@psrflorida.org

Viral is written and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist.

Our theme is “Take Your Medicine” by the Quick and Easy Boys.
Visit us at www.viral-pod.com for more information.

Imagine a world where diseases that once were easily treatable wreak havoc on our species. This may sound like the plot of a dystopian sci-fi novel but it could be the real future of humanity.  We talk about antibiotic resistance and how we can be better stewards of medicine in this episode.

Viral is written and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist.

Our theme is “Take Your Medicine” by the Quick and Easy Boys.
Visit us at www.viral-pod.com for more information.

 

Love your weekends? We do too!  But we haven't always had weekends, minimum wage, and child labor laws; the Labor Movement changed all of that.  We talk about the history of the Labor Movement and how it has impacted Public Health.

Black Lung Disease Article:  https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/09/600990115/ky-lawmakers-didnt-consult-federal-experts-about-limiting-black-lung-claims-revi
The Jungle:  https://www.amazon.com/Jungle-Upton-Sinclair/dp/1543285708

Viral is written and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist.

Our theme is “Take Your Medicine” by the Quick and Easy Boys.
Visit us at www.viral-pod.com for more information.

It's the final day of our National Public Health Week series; today we're discussing the Right to Health.  Do we have a responsibility as public health professionals to ensure the right to health for everyone?  If so, how do we do that and what does that look like?

To learn more about National Public Health Week and Ensuring the Right to Health check out their website here.

Viral is written and produced by Linsey Grove and Quinn Lundquist.

Our theme is “Take Your Medicine” by the Quick and Easy Boys.
Visit us at www.viral-pod.com for more information.