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In a complex, modern society, we’re deeply connected in ways that often go unnoticed. On In Solidarity: Connecting Power, Place and Health, hosts Ericka Burroughs-Girardi and Beth Silver explore these connections through conversations with some of the brightest minds and biggest thinkers in public health. Burroughs-Girardi and Silver talk with authors, activists and scientists to investigate historical context, implications for health, and evidence-based solutions. Join the conversation on In Solidarity today. Brought to you by County Health Rankings & Roadmaps at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Join us this April, as we introduce In Solidarity: Connecting Power, Place and Health. This new podcast from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute will explore how we’re deeply connected to one another in ways we are often not even aware. On In Solidarity, hosts Ericka Burroughs-Girardi and Beth Silver explore these connections and what they mean for our wellbeing through conversations with some of the brightest minds and biggest thinkers in public health. They’ll also challenge assumptions about public health and step out of comfort zones to get to a deeper understanding of how our connections, and the actions around them, impact us all. Join us on In Solidarity today!
Welcome to the launch of In Solidarity: Connecting Power, Place and Health. In this debut episode, hosts Ericka Burroughs-Girardi and Beth Silver introduce themselves and the theme for the podcast, social solidarity. Burroughs-Girardi and Silver explore how our lives and fates are interconnected, whether obvious or not. And they discuss how the two of them discovered a connection that shaped their lives before they were even born.
The gender pay gap is a complex issue and closing it will require multiple solutions. In our second of three episodes on the topic, hosts Ericka Burroughs-Girardi and Beth Silver are joined by Dr. Jessica Milli, an economist and the founder of the consulting firm Research 2 Impact. Dr. Milli talks about how the gender pay gap harms our health, entire communities and the economy. Our colleague Kiersten Frobom, a senior analyst on our evidence and policy analysis team, also joins the conversation to discuss the strategies that communities and organizations are using to close the gender pay gap.
Type “the gender pay gap” into any search engine and one of the first results that pops up will be: “The gender pay gap myth.” In the final episode of this miniseries, hosts Beth Silver and Ericka Burroughs-Girardi bust myths and break down the toxic narratives around the gender pay gap. They are joined by Dr. Jonathan Heller, a senior fellow at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, who talks about how toxic narratives maintain systems and policies that keep women undervalued and underpaid. Dr. Jessamyn Schaller, an economics professor and co-author of The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap, concludes our series by making the connections between the pay gap and women’s health.
In Solidarity is back for a brand-new series on civic health.
There’s a growing body of evidence that shows that people living in areas with structural barriers, such as laws that restrict voter eligibility, registration and opportunities to participate, have lower voter turnout and shorter life expectancy. In our second episode, hosts Beth Silver Ericka Burroughs-Girardi are joined by Daniel Dawes, executive director of the Institute of Global Health Equity at Meharry Medical College, and the founder of the political determinants of health framework. Dawes discusses how the political determinants have shaped communities’ abilities to define and address public problems. Dr. Peniel Joseph, an author, professor and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at The University of Texas at Austin, also joins the conversation to provide examples of how tools of democracy — historical and present — have shaped where we are today.
Public health and health care systems can play an important role in improving civic health. In the third episode of this series, hosts Beth Silver and Ericka Burroughs-Girardi dive into examples of public health and health care organizations’ efforts to increase civic participation. They are joined by Jeanne Ayers, the executive director of Healthy Democracy Healthy People, who discusses both challenges and victories to increase voter registration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Aliya Bhatia, executive director of Vot-ER, shares how bringing voter registration into emergency rooms, hospitals and community health centers has moved health beyond the exam room.
When people closest to problems have the power to influence solutions, those solutions often benefit everyone. In our final episode of this series on civic health, hosts Beth Silver and Ericka Burroughs-Girardi explore strategies to ensure everyone has a voice and the opportunity for collective change. They are joined by Solange Gould, the co-director of Human Impact Partners, who discusses the role narratives play in building power and improving civic health. Dr. Erika Blacksher, the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics and a professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, concludes our series by defining democratic deliberation and how it’s related to health equity.
In Solidarity is back for a new series exploring the power of organizing to improve our health. We’re diving into public health’s history of organizing around just causes and the ways it can return to its powerful, political roots. All episodes available October 16, 2024.
The first episode of In Solidarity's four-part series, Organizing for Health, covers how the field of public health is rooted in organizing and how practitioners can re-engage and reconnect to their powerful, political origins. Physician, epidemiologist and host of the America Dissected podcast, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, joins the conversation to discuss public health's history with organizing and the ways we can use organizing to improve health.
This episode explores how organizing around housing issues advances public health priorities. We delve into tenants’ rights groups: how and why they started; how they have protected tenants from abuse; how they’ve improved living conditions; and how they’ve encouraged people to become more politically engaged.
How do we transition from organizing for change to enacting policy change? In this episode we’ll explore the power of labor unions to protect workers’ rights, health and wealth.
How does public health return to its roots of organizing to improve health? In this episode, we will share recent organizing success stories with specific examples and strategies that work on the ground.
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps is debuting a new model of health this year. The model looks at how power, laws and even society’s written and unwritten rules shape health in communities across the country.
Where we live is connected to how long and how well we live. Land Back, a social movement, advocates for the reclamation of the land to Indigenous Peoples.
In its final episode, In Solidarity updates the field on CHR&R’s status. We look at achievements past and a path forward for the model of health and CHR&R’s data and strategies.
The idea of collective action for the common good has slowly given way in this country to private and for-profit … by design. If we’re going to improve health and health equity for everyone, we have to understand the shift away from the things once considered sacred public goods (i.e., public schools, transportation, infrastructure, and investment in all communities). In this episode, we talk with author Donald Cohen, who recently published The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back, to find out how we got here and how we can return to a mindset of social solidarity.
It started with the enslavement of human beings and persists today. The racial wealth divide is among the most consequential factors in the inequitable way people experience life – and death – in this country. In this episode, we welcome our colleague, Dr. Christine Muganda, a scientist with County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, to shed light on what the research says about wealth inequality. Some staggering statistics: Black families in this country have just one-tenth of the wealth of white families. Racial differences are far more pronounced in wealth than in income. Ultimately, the differences in wealth and the ability to build it, can impact health and well-being for generations.
The 20th century is full of deliberate acts to restrict Black families from building wealth in this country. In this episode we’re joined by Dr. Dalton Conley, a Princeton University professor and author of Being Black, Living in the Red. Conley traces the massive wealth divide to the enslavement of human beings and follows it through Reconstruction, the New Deal, redlining, the G.I. Bill, and beyond. Conley suggests a race-neutral solution may be the most effective way to close the wealth divide.
In this episode, we explore reparations as a possible solution to bridging the racial wealth divide. We're joined by Dr. Andre Perry, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and a scholar-in-residence at American University. Perry has authored the book, Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities and co-authored a Brookings policy brief: “Why we need reparations for Black Americans.” Perry argues that reparations are not only the solution, but they’re also the morally right thing to do.
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