In this episode of the AJPH Vickie Mays, Alfredo Morabia and guest podcast co-host Susan Cochran offer reflections of a series of papers on the context of societal conditions that call out the need for public mental health. The interviews are of an author of 4 papers in a special AJPH issue on mental health. Margarita Alegria and her study of which…

In this AJPH podcast episode, Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia speak with Caroline R. Efird, Derek M. Griffith, and Jonathan Metzl about the often-overlooked concept of whiteness as a determinant of health. They discuss their article, 'Whiteness: A Fundamental Determinant of the Health of Rural White Americans,' exploring what whiteness is, why it s…

In this episode of the AJPH podcast, Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia interview four experts—Kimberly M. Nelson, Wendy E. Parmet, Kristen Underhill, and Ruqaiijah Yearby—on the intersection of law, policy, and public health. They discuss the importance of studying policies within their legal contexts, the trend of state laws disproportionately targe…

In this AJPH podcast episode, recorded live at the 2025 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia speak with Adrienne R. Ghorashi and Ruqaiijah Yearby about their presentation, "Examining the Role of State Constitutions in Racism, Governance, and Health Equity." They highlight how state consti…

2025P1 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Dr. Tianchu Lyu, review highlights of the Oct to Dec 2024 Issues and Supplements. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. José Pagán, Professor and Chair of Department of Public Health Policy and Management, School of Global Public Health, New York University…

In this episode of AJPH podcast, Alfredo Morabia interviews Professor Vickie Mays, co-host of the podcast and clinical psychologist who is a faculty member at UCLA, about the devastating fires that have ravaged the Pacific Palisades and Altadena. Speaking from Los Angeles, Professor Mays provides an up-to-date account of the destruction as of Janua…

In this episode of AJPH Talks, Alfredo Morabia interviews three distinguished guests: Dr. David Michaels, former Assistant Secretary of Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Dr. Jonathan Samet, Professor and former Dean at the Colorado School of Public Health, and Paul E Sampson, historian at the University of Scranton…

Alfredo Morabia and Prof. Vickie Mays (UCLA) from AJPH interview Dr Sherry Glied, Dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public and Dr Steven Woolf, Director Emeritus and Senior Advisor, VCU Center on Society and Health about the differences in excess all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic across the US states. …

Alfredo Morabia and Prof. Vickie Mays (UCLA) from AJPH interview Profs Neil Pearce (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Andrew C. Stokes (Boston University School of Public Health), and Jan P Vandenbroucke (Leiden University Medical Center, Dept. Clinical Epidemiology) in a compelling discussion about excess mortality and its significa…

2024 P4 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Dr. Tianchu Lyu, review highlights of the July to September 2024 Issues and July Supplement. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Lin Fang, Professor from Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Canada.על ידי AJPH

Alfredo Morabia and Prof. Vickie Mays (UCLA) from AJPH interview Sarah Moreland-Russell, PhD, Associate Professor of Practice, and Caitlin McMurtry, PhD, Assistant Professor, both at Brown School, Washington University, Saint Louis. Why are local public health policies sometimes in conflict with federal policies? In some states public health office…

Alfredo Morabia and Prof. Vickie Mays (UCLA) from AJPH interview Admiral Rachel L Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and Elana Redfield, J.D., Federal Policy Director at the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law. HHS is to be applauded for its work in making visible the health, mental health, and data …

Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu, Pengfei Guo, and Tianchu Lyu report on Dr. Alfredo Morabia’s interviews with the Deans of three schools of public health in China in July 2024.על ידי AJPH

Alfredo Morabia and Prof. Vickie Mays (UCLA) from AJPH interview Masoomeh Faghankhani (Dr.PH student at Colorado SPH) and Alice Igisaro (MBA student, Washington University in St Louis). In this podcast, we explore how public health students can be equipped to respond to and prevent war. Massoomeh and Alice emphasize that foundational skills for thi…

In this episode of the AJPH Student Think Tank podcast, we focus on the social and political determinants of indoor air quality. We talk to Elaine LaFay and Paul Sampson about the drought history of ventilation. We hear from Jennifer Ahumada about community-based air filtration workshops with the USC Environmental Justice Research Lab. And we have …

Alfredo Morabia and Prof. Vickie Mays (UCLA) from AJPH interview Anna K. Hing (University of Minnesota), Jennifer L. Pomeranz (New York University), and Marian Moser Jones (Ohio State University) to discuss whether voting rights are a political determinant of health. Key discussion points include: What have been the political consequences of the US…

Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu, and Tianchu Lyu review highlights of the April to June 2024 Issues and Supplements.The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Stella S. Yi, Associate Professor from the Department of Population Health, New York University.על ידי AJPH

AJPH Editors Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia interview Tamara Rushovich (Harvard), lead author of "US Voting Rights Act Impact on Black and Black vs. White Infant Death Rates in Jim Crow States, 1959–1980 and 2017–2021" (Am J Public Health. 2024; 114(3): 300–308), and Jesse H. Rhodes (UMass Amherst). We discuss the definition of "Jim Crow Laws" and…

Welcome to "Forging Radical Hope," a special podcast series from the American Journal of Public Health 2024 Student Think Tank. In our first episode, we explore the future of public health with insightful pitches from our esteemed guests.Part 2 features Marcus Weinman, a PhD Candidate at the University of Vermont, who shares his visionary ideas on …

Welcome to "Forging Radical Hope," a special podcast series from the American Journal of Public Health 2024 Student Think Tank. In our first episode, we explore the future of public health with insightful pitches from our esteemed guests. Part 1 features Kathleen Patti, an MPH student at the University of North Florida, who shares her visionary ide…

Participant: Michael McGinnis, Executive Director at National Academy of MedicineHosts: Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia (AJPH)This podcast addresses critical questions such as: How was public health before 1988 and what triggered the writing of the report? How important was the ongoing AIDS pandemic in this process? Is the report a milestone, marki…

This month AJPH Editors Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia interview Julie Ward (Vanderbilt University), Guy Seymour (Psychologist in Public Safety), and Brandon del Pozo (Brown University). Interest in the potential fatal consequences of police encounters has grown in recent years. Julie Ward and her colleagues have shown that the statistics about fa…

Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia, of AJPH, conducted an insightful interview with Dr. Jerome Adams, the 20th US Surgeon General and Distinguished Professor of Practice at Purdue University. The discussion centered around his latest book, "Crisis and Chaos: Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against COVID-19," published by Post Hill Press in 202…

Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu, and Pengfei Guo highlight some of the contents of the January to March 2024 Issues and Supplements of the American Journal of Public Health. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Guoqing Hu, Dean of the School of Public Health and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics at the Central …

In this is second part of Black History Month AJPH podcasts, Katherine M Anderson, MPH, AJPH Student Editor, and Alfredo Morabia interview Regina Davis Moss, PhD, MPH, about her new book "Black Women’s Reproductive Health and Sexuality: A Holistic Public Health Approach" (APHA Press, 2023). They explore her motivations for writing the book, what it…

AJPH's Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia had an in-person conversation with Derek M Griffith, PhD, Center for Men's Health Equity about what it takes to achieve the goal of the center, equity in men's health. Dr Griffith reflects on the importance of the inclusion of concepts of manhood, trustworthiness, intersectionality, and individual tailoring th…

Alfredo Morabia, AJPH, tuvo una conversación en persona con la Prof Maria Elena Trinidad Young, PhD (UC Merced) acerca de su trabajo comparando el estado de salud de los inmigrantes latinos y asiáticos en California. Discutimos los resultados del estudio RIGHTS (Investigación sobre la Salud de los Inmigrantes y Políticas Estatales) que muestran las…

AJPH's Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia had an in-person conversation with Maria Elena Trinidad Young, PhD (UC Merced) about her work comparing the health status of Latin and Asian immigrants in California. We discuss the results of the RIGHTS (Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy) Study that show the experiences of immigrants in the areas …

At APHA 2023, in Atlanta, Prof Vickie Mays and Alfredo Morabia interviewed Enbal Shacham (Saint Louis University) and Este Geraghty (ESRI) about the risks and opportunities of digital innovations in public health. The system needs to be responsive to lots of threats. There is also an explosion of disruptive and innovative technologies which can hel…

2023P5 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, review highlights of the October to December 2023 Issues. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta, Associate Editor of AJPH, Senior Scientist at the Injury Prevention Research Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lately, Dr. Dasgupta was named to TIME1…

Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA& AJPH) and Alfredo Morabia (EIC, AJPH) asked Barry S. Levy (Tufts University School of Medicine, and former APHA president) and Bob Gould (APHA Peace Caucus and former president of Physicians for Social Responsibility) what is the public health dimension of wars, why wars are always global, and what can public health professi…

Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) and Alfredo Morabia (EIC of AJPH) interview Prof Anne Case, from Princeton University and author with Prof Angus Deaton, of "Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism." Prof Case argues that understanding the relationship in the US between educational attainment and poor social and economic outcomes may greatly add to o…

Fatal overdoses seem to double within 6-min walk of drug arrests. Do drug busts increase overdose deaths? New study from Indianapolis suggests it might double the risk. Do America’s drug policy policymakers need to reconsider the priority given to police drug seizures cannot as opposed to harm reduction. Alfredo Morabia and Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA) …

With our two guests, Vickie Mays and I discuss the concerning decline in life expectancy in the United States compared to other countries with Prof. Steven H. Woolf (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Prof. Lauren Gaydosh (University of Texas at Austin). Why is life expectancy an important public health measure? What causes the decline? Why are …

2023P4 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the June to September 2023 Issues. The Editor’s Corner features a new publication in AJPH (September 2023) and a commentary by Dr. Hui Wang, Dean and Distinguished Professor of the School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong…

Population-based monitoring of COVID-19 infections has dramatically being absent in most populations on the planet. However, the Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) was one of the rare exceptions. With Prof Paul Elliott, principal investigator of REACT @ Imperial College, London and Prof Natalie E Dean @ Emory University, Atlanta…

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected health care and other essential workers more than other groups in the US, but can we quantify the damage? To what extent did it aggravate the inequities that were prevalent before the pandemic? What should public health do better next time to both prevent some harm and monitor the harm that cannot be prevented? Al…

2023P3 Regional Editor of AJPH, Prof. Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the March to June 2023 Issues. The Editor’s Corner features new publications in AJPH (May & June 2023). Dr. Yueqi Yan, a professor from the University of California, Merced provided an overview of the substance use among Asi…

This week Vickie Mays and I discuss with Michael Fraser Chief Executive Officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and Brent Ewig, Chief Policy and Government Relations Officer, Association of Immunization Managers (AIM) about their new book: “Vaccinating America: The Inside Story Behind the Race to Save Lives and …

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu, and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the December 2022 to February 2023 Issues, Supplement 9 of 2022, and Supplement 1 of 2023. The Editor’s Corner features two articles published in AJPH (January 2023, December 2022). Miss Xueqing Liu, a doctoral student in Bios…

With Bibhas Chakraborty, Duke-NUS Medical School, and Nick Seewald, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, we discuss current limitations for public health of the classical way of conducting RCTs, give examples of these limitations, and explain why sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trials (SMARTs) and microrandomized trials (MRTs…

Guests: Dr Georges Benjamin (APHA) and Dr Richard Besser (RWJF)Moderators: Alfredo Morabia and Prof Vickie Mays (UCLA)We discuss the state of public health after 3 years of pandemic, what are the challenges ahead, and the role of the APHA to help addressing these challengesעל ידי AJPH

The theme of the meeting this year is diversity equity and inclusion in all policies. Panelists are from a different public health action domains This year's Prime Ministers were Osprey Orielle Lake, Roishetta Ozane, and Monique Verdin from the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN). The panelists were Adam Kader, Allison Berry, Thomas La…

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the September to November issues and Supplement 7 to 8 of 2022.The Editor’s Corner features Dr. “Jim” Jun Zhang, K. C. Wong Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Deputy Director, Institute of Early Life Health, …

With my guests, Profs Chenoa D. Allen and Daniel P. Miller, we review the practical health-damaging consequences of the threats of denying naturalization to immigrants receiving public health benefits. The reality is that many immigrants are not at risk if they benefit from SNAP or Medicaid, but don't seem to be aware of it, as my guests explain. T…

Prof Chenjerai Kumanyika (NYU) introduces a podcast made under his supervision by Bradley Kramer, about the state obstacles to abortion, interviewing Prof Dovile Vilda (Tulane), who also spoke of her research at a previous AJPH podcast (youtu.be/_nDejLUGg_I).על ידי AJPH

With Professor Vickie Mays, UCLA, we explore what can be done to protect women who seek an abortion in places where bans have been implemented or are pending? Can local coalitions be built to prevent total bans? What resources are there for people in the affected states that cannot go to other states for abortions? Is there anything the federal gov…

Regional Editor of AJPH, Professor Jihong Liu and Pengfei Guo, doctoral candidate at Yale University, review highlights of the June to August issues and Supplement 3 to 6 of 2022. The Editor’s Corner features Dr. Jihong Liu, the new Associate Editor.על ידי AJPH

There was a legitimate outcry at the harassment public health officials in some states. What is the situation now and how important has been the support to health officers in the same areas? I discuss these issues with my guests, Valerie Yeager, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Fairbanks School of Public …

@AJPH Deputy Editor Farzana Kapadia interviews Dr Daniel Tarantola, who is an Associate Editor at @AJPH and a member of the WHO Monkeypox Emergency Committee about the threat represented by the epidemic of monkeypox and why it was not straightforward to devise a policy that protects some communities from being stigmatized, repressed and even murder…