Episodes

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 ****Attach the Unpublished Draft Kindig Paper “Thinking Clearly and Speaking Frankly about Health Equity: Good and Fair Population Health” References: Asada Y, Whipp A, Kindig D, Billard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...

Podcast #7 Population Health Equity: Finding Common Ground Dave explains his provocative and contrarian statement: “The effort to reduce health disparities is hindered by viewing health equity only in terms of racial inequities.” And he argues for seeing inequities through multiple lenses to find common ground. References: Kindig DA. 2015. Can There Be Political Common Ground for Improving Population Health? Milbank Q 93(1):24–27. Haidt J. 2012. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divide...

Podcast #6 It’s All About the Money Sanne probes Dave’s efforts to promote rebalancing to upstream investments, calling in 2015 for per capita investment benchmarks for all determinants. He discusses the potential but yet unrealized promise of ACO Shared Savings, the Hospital Community Benefit IRS requirement, and local health outcome trusts. References: Kindig DA, Isham G. 2014. Population Health Improvement: A Community Health Business Model That Engages Partners in All Sectors. Front Healt...

Podcast #5 Picking Up Steam 2006-2014 County Health Rankings Model Dave tells us about how the population health idea began to catch on, in scholarship as well as in the County Health Rankings, Federal Medicare and Medicaid. The momentum continued in his blog and the founding of the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement …saying to Robert Wood Johnson “…they couldn’t say no”. References: Kindig DA, Asada Y, Booske B. 2008. A Population Health Framework for Setting N...

Podcast #4 The Lonely Years Sanne encourages Dave to explain why he describes this period of slow up-take as “lonely,” despite several major presentations, and how a rejected paper returned to prominence. References: Kindig DA. 1999. Beyond Health Services Research (Association for Health Services Research (AHSR) Presidential Speech). Health Services Research 34(1):205-214. Kindig DA. 2006. A Pay-for-Population Health Performance System. JAMA 296(21):2611-2613. Kindig DA. 2007. Understandin...

Podcast #3 What is Population Health? Dave discusses the evolution of his definition of population health to his most cited 2003 paper and clarifies ongoing confusion with the terms “public health” and “population health management”. References: Kindig D, Stoddart G. 2003. What is Population Health? Am J of Public Health 93(3): 380-383. Kindig D. 2015. What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Population Health? Health Affairs Blog April 6. 1377/forefront.20150406.046151 https://www.natio...

Podcast #2 The Story Behind the Book Purchasing Population Health Evans and Stoddart 1990 Field Model – Used with permission Evans RG, Stoddart GL. 1990. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care. Soc Sci Med 31(12):1347-1363. Dave explores with Sanne the seminal, Canadian influence and how his sabbatical intellectual paralysis in York England almost resulted in no book. He reminds us of the only italicized sentence in the seminal Evans and Stoddart 1990 paper: “A society that spends so much on h...

Population Health: the Unfinished Journey with David Kindig Episode 1: Once Upon A Time Dave discusses his South Bronx roots of seeing “health” vs only healthcare, and how an unfavorable, chance encounter with the Chair of Pediatrics changed his career forever. References: Kindig DA. 1992. The Health Care System Should Produce Health. On Wisconsin September/October. p.25. Evans RG, Stoddart GL. 1990. Producing Health, Consuming Health Care. Soc Sci Med 31(12):1347-1363. We thank the staff o...

What exactly is epidemiology and how is it different from population health? Why do sub-fields like social epidemiology exist? In this crossover episode, which we realize must sound like a nerdy jam session, with Epi Counts co-host Ghassan Hamra, we riff on our perspectives of the fields, how they are similar and different, including some spicy hot takes on various controversies and subfields. We’re not sure if we actually answered any of the questions above but we had fun talking and hope that ...

Closing off our “Meet our Hosts” series we’re joined by Mike Esposito, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St Louis. Join us as we learn about his path from Missouri-to-Seattle and back, why he picked Sociology as a field and his brief dabble with political sociology, and growing up as a chess prodigy.

We continue our “Meet our Hosts” series with co-host Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Science at the University of Chicago. Aresha gives us insight into how her work has been inspired by her own life growing up in immigrant communities in California and reflects on the early wins and challenges of her career so far. We also get to learn about her attempts at getting on reality TV.

This episode kicks of our “Meet Our Host” series where we interview our fellow co-host to share more about their work, life, and passion for population health. To kick us off we’re joined by Darrell Hudson, Associate Professor in the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St Louis. Darrel shares more about how his life growing up in Detroit has informed his career, working on early research on stress and health at Morehouse, and his secret comedic powers.

Nutrition is critical in the production of health and health inequities across the lifecourse and in utero. We were fortunate to have Epidemiology Superstar Lisa Bodnar, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health to join us for this episode. Professor Bodnar dropped lots of yummy, thoughtful nuggets for us to consume, ranging from funding one’s research agenda to maintaining one’s sanity while perpetually underwater to developing a popular podcast—Shiny Epi...

Across the country, workers have become increasingly disengaged and dissatisfied with their work, searching for other job opportunities or a break from work altogether in what economists are calling “The Great Resignation.” At the same time, workplaces have attempted to enhance worker wellbeing during the pandemic and expand DEI efforts. In today’s episode we’re joined by work and diversity scholar Courtney McCluney, an assistant professor of Organizational Behavior in the ILR School at Cornell ...

In 2021 state-based abortion restrictions swelled across the country and a powerful challenge to Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that protects a pregnant person’s right to choose to have an abortion, will be decided in the Supreme Court this year. All admist a backdrop of pervasive disparities in access to family planning, prenatal care, and maternal and child mortality across race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status. In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Tiffany Green, Assistant Professor ...

For our first episode of 2022 we’re joined by Jesus Ramirez-Valles, a researcher and director of the Health Equity Institute at SF State who has traversed tenure-track faculty positions, led academic departments and research centers, and headed up leading journals in public health. Jesus reflects on his career promoting health equity and training the next generation of diverse scholars, as well as the challenges along the way.

We all know the importance of socioeconomic resources in relation to health. There are countless studies conducted over decades that continue to demonstrate socioeconomic resources such as income affect a wide range of outcomes. Despite the extensive documentation of the importance of socioeconomic resources, especially income, as they relate to health and health inequities, the field of population health spends much less time considering how to get money into the hands of people who need it. On...

Sleep is often referred to as the third life, as we literally spend about a third of our lives sleep. And while we may not be conscious, there is a massive amount of physiological activity occurring during sleep. Therefore, the effects of sleep, both quantity and quality, on overall health and well-being are tremendous. Additionally, researchers have linked aspects of sleep to racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health inequities. In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Dayna Johnson, Assistant Profes...

In this very special episode of Sick Individuals/Sick Populations, we’re broadcasting live from the floor of the 2021 IAPHS Annual Meeting! Join our hosts as they chat with conference-goers about the research they’re presenting during the meeting; exciting sessions that they’ve attended so far; and their general, overall (virtual) conference experience.