PHPod Archives

03.29.2024 group photo of 2024 PHP fellows, (from left: Abby Varker, Lia Musumeci [back], Heather Sherr, Dani Weissert [back], Jude Sleiman)

Health Equity

Meet the 2024 Public Health Post Fellows

PHPod sits down with new fellows, Lia Musumeci, Heather Sherr, Jude Sleiman, Abby Varker, and Dani Weissert, to discuss health communications and their public health interests going into their year-long fellowships with PHP.

Fellow Kara Schmidt

02.23.2024 illustration of a classroom, representing censorship in the school environment

Censorship In the Classroom: Book Bans and Challenges, Part 2

PHPod sat down with Leah Watson, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU Racial Justice Program, to discuss censorship in the classroom.

Fellow Kara Schmidt

01.26.2024 Illustrated stack of books that are commonly banned in classrooms and schools across the country

Censorship In the Classroom: Book Bans and Challenges, Part 1

PHPod sat down with Christina Dobbs, an assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development, to discuss the current onslaught of book bans and challenges in classrooms across the country.

Fellow Kara Schmidt

11.09.2023 PHPod logo and player on the left with grilled maize laid out on left, highlighting food sovereignty and indigenous food practices

Food Sovereignty and Indigenous Food Practices

PHPod host Kara Schmidt sits down with Ryann Monteiro, a Boston University School of Public Health alum and an Indigenous public health practitioner and educator, to discuss food sovereignty and indigenous food practices related to cultural preservation and revitalization.

10.26.2023 PHPod logo and player on the left with an optical illusion on right, representing body dysmorphia, weight discrimination, and stigma

Health Equity

Fat Liberation and Weight Discrimination

PHPod host Kara Schmidt sits down with Rev. Dr. Anastasia Kidd, director of Contextual Education at Boston University School of Theology, and Massachusetts State Senator Becca Rausch to discuss the fat liberation movement, the health effects of weight stigma, and recent legislation to address size discrimination in the Commonwealth.

09.28.2023 PHPod logo and player on the left and a red handprint, which represents the missing and murdered Indigenous women movement, on the left

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Epidemic

PHPod host Kara Schmidt sits down with Annita Lucchesi, founder and director of Sovereign Bodies Institute, and Jodi Voice Yellowfish, founder and chair of MMIW-Texas Rematriate, to discuss the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the United States.

Fellow Kara Schmidt

04.20.2023

The Unsung Intersection of Ballroom and Public Health

PHPod sat down with Jennifer Barnes-Balenciaga, director of the Crystal LaBeija Organizing Fellowship and Commissioner for Gender Equity in New York City, to discuss her work with health policy and the ballroom community.

Fellows Connor McCombs, Bethany Hallenborg

03.31.2023 a group of people posing for a photo

Public Health Post

Meet Our 2023 Public Health Post Fellows

New fellows, Caroline Dignard, Sean Hagan, Adna Jaganjac, and Kara Schmidt, discuss health communication and their public health interests going into their year-long writing fellowship with Public Health Post.

Fellow Connor McCombs

02.17.2023

'There Is No Wrong Body for Gymnastics'

PHPod sits down with Abbie Green, the founder of EveryBODY Gymnastics, a gymnastics incubator focused on teaching the sport to anyone wanting to learn.

Fellows Connor McCombs, Bethany Hallenborg

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