Sick Individuals / Sick Populations

In order to develop appropriate interventions to advance population health, Interdisciplinary teams are critical. In this episode, we spoke to Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health and key thought leader in population health to understand how he approaches interdisciplinary scholarship.

The challenges of climate change and environmental disasters for population health are mounting. We’re joined by Nick Shapiro, an interdisciplinary environmental health researcher and anthropologist, to learn about how he’s built out his innovative program of research weaving together justice, environment, data, and ethnography, and translating research to action.

Sick Individuals/Sick Populations comes to you LIVE from Minneapolis. We’re joined by first-time conference go-ers, our conference chairs, seasoned IAPHS veterans, and more surprise guests to debrief our return to IAPHS annual in-person conference. Disclaimer: The sound quality for this episode is quiet during some sections. We hope you still enjoy this episode!

In preparation for the 2022 IAPHS Conference, we chat with this year’s conference chairs, Sean Valles and Kat Theall, to learn more about what to look forward to for this year’s conference

Podcast #9 Looking Ahead in an Unfinished Journey References: Kindig DA. 2015. Can There Be Political Common Ground for Improving Population Health? Milbank Q 93(1):24–27. Kindig DA. 2007. Understanding Population Health Terminology. Milbank Q 85(1):139-161. Kindig D, Nobles J, Zidan M. 2018. Meeting the Institute of Medicine’s 2030 US Life Expectancy Target. Am J Public Health108(1):87-92. McCullough JM, Speer M, Magnan S, Fielding JE, Kindig D, Teutsch SM. 2020. Reduction in US Health Car

Podcast #8 Population Health Equity: Crucial and Complicated Sanne asks Dave why a paper he worked on for three years “Thinking Clearly, Speaking Frankly about Health Equity” was never published…and whether the many complications of population health equity can detract from crucial action. ****Attach the Unpublished Draft Kindig Paper “Thinking Clearly and Speaking Frankly about Health Equity: Good and Fair Population Health” References: Asada Y, Whipp A, Kindig D, Billard B, Rudolph B. 2014