Preventing Chronic Disease

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COVID-19-Related Racial Disparities Among St. Louis Residents

2024-10-3106:36

Listen as Camille Kroll, winner of PCD's 2023 Student Paper Contest in the master's category, talks about her article entitled, "An Exploratory Qualitative Analysis of Explanations for COVID-19-Related Racial Disparities Among St. Louis Residents: ‘I Don't Really Pay Attention to the Racial Stuff Very Much.'"

Combating Racism in Public Health

2023-11-1317:46

Join us as we talk with Dr. Jeff Hall from CDC's Office of Health Equity and Dr. Ebony Boulware from Wake Forest University School of Medicine about impact racism can heave on health.

Student Discussions: Examining the Link Between Physical Activity Behaviors and Depression among US High School Students

2023-01-2505:29

Join us as we talk with Charles Wang, winner of PCD's Student Research Paper Contest in the high school category. He joins PCD to discuss his winning paper, which examines the association between physical activity and sedentary behavior with depression among high school students.

Discussing PCD's Student Paper Collection: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Physical Activity Habits of Adults Living in Rural Areas

2023-01-1806:31

Join us as we talk with Wade Creech, winner of PCD's Student Research Paper Contest in the undergraduate category. He joins PCD to discuss his winning paper, which examines the benefits and barriers to engaging in physical activity among adults living in rural North Carolina communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discussing PCD's Student Paper Collection: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations

2023-01-1209:48

Join us as we talk with Brendan Seto, third-year medical student at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu, Hawaii, about racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations which may be hidden by race and/or ethnicity misclassification.

Demonstrating How Geospatial Perspectives Can Contribute to Understanding and Addressing the Intersection of Chronic Disease and COVID-19

2023-01-0523:10

Listen as Dr. Jeremy Mennis from the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University; Dr. Kevin Matthews from CDC's Office of the Associate Director for Policy and Strategy; and Dr. Sara Huston from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine share with us how PCD's collection on GIS and COVID-19 highlights the important role GIS and technology plays in understanding the social and environmental determinants of health that cause inequities in infectious and chronic disease risk factors.

Discussing PCD's Collection on Cancer Screening Prevalence and Associated Factors Among US Adults

2022-05-2613:34

Join us as we talk with Dr. Lisa Richardson, Division Director of Cancer Prevention and Control at CDC, and Dr. Zhen-Qiang (Marshal) Ma, Senior Chronic Disease Epidemiologist and Division Director at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, about PCD's latest collection on cancer screening and prevention and the importance of the research included within.

Discussing PCD's Collection: Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country

2021-11-2322:23

Listen as Thomas Lawrence from the Urban Indian Health Institute and Dr. Diana Redwood from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium discuss the CDC's Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country collection and the importance of the research included within.

Tobacco and Alcohol on Television

2018-11-0106:06

Listen as Brittney Keller-Hamilton, winner of PCD's 2018 Student Research Paper Contest in the doctoral category, talks about her recently published research, which looks the frequency of tobacco and alcohol use in adolescents' favorite TV shows and examines whether the rates of tobacco and alcohol use differed by the show's parental rating.

Gestational Diabetes and Health Behaviors Among Women

2018-10-2506:42

Listen as Fei Gao, winner of PCD's 2018 Student Research Paper Contest in the high school category, talks about his recently published research, which looked at gestational diabetes and health behaviors among women in the United States.

Estimating Mammography Program Use

2018-10-2504:35

In this podcast interview, Calla Holzahauser, winner of PCD's 2018 Student Research Paper Contest in the graduate category, talks about her recently published research, which estimates the number of women in South Dakota who will participate in a free breast cancer screening program from 2017 through 2022.

Education's Role in Improving Arthritis Symptoms Among Latino Adults

2018-10-1606:44

Listen as Leigha Vilen, winner of PCD's 2018 Student Research Paper Contest in the undergraduate category, talks about her recently published research, which looked at the education level and health status of Latino adults with arthritis participating in a walking program in North Carolina.

Patterns and Trends in Cancer Screening

2018-07-2405:17

Listen as Dr. Ingrid Hall, an epidemiologist with CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, talks about her team's recently published research, which examine the prevalence of cancer screening reported in 2015 by U.S. adults.

Public Libraries as Partners in Health

2018-05-2406:40

Listen as Eliza Whiteman, PhD, discusses her research, which documents and reinforces the evidence that public libraries can be an integral partner in public health.

Consequences of Inadequate Physical Activity

2018-03-2705:03

Listen as CDC Epidemiologist Susan Carlson, PhD, talks about her research, which estimates the percentage of US deaths attributed to inadequate levels of physical activity.

What Drives Health Professionals to Tweet About the HPV Vaccine?

2018-02-2006:23

This podcast features Philip Massey, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor at Drexel University and one of the authors of a recent study that looks at what motivates health professionals to tweet about the HPV vaccine. Philip answers questions about his research and what impact social media can have on public health and health care communication.

Are U.S. Schools Filling the Gap With Programs that Promote Weight Stigma?

2017-12-2109:05

In this edition of PCD Sound Bites, author Erica Kenney, ScD, answers questions about her study, which looked at how frequently U.S. schools used evidence-based obesity prevention programs and how often schools implement programs that may unintentionally worsen weight stigma among students.

Helping Nevada School Children Become Sun Smart

2017-11-2807:24

This podcast features Christine Thompson, Community Programs Manager at the Nevada Cancer Coalition, and author of a recent study detailing a school-based program to help Nevada school children establish healthy sun safety habits and decrease UV exposure. Christine answers questions about her research and what impact her what impact the program had on children's skin health.

Early Onset Childhood Obesity and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome

2017-10-0904:57

This podcast features Lorena Pacheco, a doctoral student at the University of California San Diego and one of the winners of PCD's 2017 Student Research Paper Contest. Lorena answers questions about her winning research, which focuses on the relationship between early onset obesity as a risk factor for increased metabolic syndrome in Chilean children.

Geographical Overlapping of Obesity, Heart Disease, and Type 2 Diabetes

2017-10-0905:43

This podcast features Kayla Smurthwaite, an undergraduate student at Australian National University in Canberra, Australia, and one of the winners of PCD’s 2017 Student Research Paper Contest. Kayla answers questions about her winning research and what impact her study has on chronic disease prevention and public health.

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