Profile Archives

03.22.2018 Brandi Harless

Health Equity

Brandi Harless

Brandi Harless, Mayor of Paducah, Kentucky, talked with Public Health Post about how her background in global health informed the initiatives she's working on now, and the intersection of public health and public service.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

03.07.2018 Shari Rudavsky

Mental & Behavioral Health
Substance Use

Shari Rudavsky

PHP sat down with Shari Rudavsky, health and medicine reporter for the Indianapolis Star, where she has reported on Indiana’s important public health issues, including the recent HIV outbreak and the opioid crisis.

Guest Author Jacqueline Rocheleau

03.01.2018 Sally Satel

Sally Satel on the Opioid Epidemic

Public Health Post sat down with Dr. Sally Satel, practicing psychiatrist at the Partners in Drug Abuse Rehabilitation and Counseling Clinic in Washington, D.C., to discuss the opioid epidemic.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

02.13.2018 Bobbi Taylor

Bobbi Taylor: Sex Work & Transgender Rights

PHP fellow Madeline Bishop talks with trans rights activist and educator Bobbi Taylor about the intersection of transgender rights and sex work.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

01.30.2018 Barbara Brents

Barbara Brents on Sex Work, Stigma, and Nuance

PHP sat down with Barbara Brents for a discussion on whether or not commercial sex should be legalized or decriminalized (it's complicated) and how journalists and public health professionals can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the sex work industry.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

11.15.2017 Cheryl Sbarra

Cheryl Sbarra

PHP sat down with Cheryl Sbarra, public health lawyer and director of Make Smoking History, about her fight against tobacco and what it took to sound the alarm on second hand smoke.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

09.28.2017 Abdul El-Sayed

Abdul El-Sayed

PHP fellow Qing Wai Wong speaks with Abdul El-Sayed about his term as Health Director at the Detroit Health Department and his decision to run for governor of Michigan.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

09.26.2017 Detroit Life Is Valuable Everyday (DLIVE). Calvin Evans, Dr. Tolulope Sonuyi, Ray Winans.

DLIVE

Detroit Life Is Valuable Everyday (DLIVE) is a hospital-based, community-focused violence intervention initiative that works with youth/young adults who have sustained acute intentional violent trauma.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

06.21.2017 Eldar Shafir

Eldar Shafir: Policy in the Contexts of Scarcity

Eldar Shafir sat down with PHP Fellow Gilbert Benavidez to discuss the many faces of scarcity, the behaviors that stem from it, and how to craft effective policy to combat it.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

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