Public Health Speaks
The National Public Health Information Coalition’s podcast series, Public Health Speaks, provides information regarding the latest public health topics.
Episodes
14 episodes
Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic from a Local Public Health Perspective
Check out the new podcast episode featuring local NPHIC member, Meredith Li-Vollmer, Ph.D, a risk communication specialist for Public Health Seattle and King County, Washington. Dr. Vollmer provides insights on responding to the COVID-19 ...
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Episode 13
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11:16
How Immunization Managers and Public Information Officers can Collaborate to Improve Immunization Policy Outcomes
Olivia Biggs, of the National Public Health Information Coalition, discusses how Immunization Managers and Public Information Officers can Collaborate to Improve Immunization Policy Outcomes, as the pandemic winds down. We’ll hear from Br...
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10:00
The Changing Landscape of Public Health Communication: Moving Forward and Learning from the Pandemic.
Richard Quartarone, a health communicator in the Immunization Services Division at the CDC, joins the show to discuss the changing landscape of public health communication in the pandemic environment. He also addresses the role vaccine de...
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14:43
Insights from a Public Health Communications Professional in America’s Heartland
Longtime NPHIC member Phil Rooney joins the show to discuss the unique communication challenges COVID-19 presents in the nation’s heartland. Rooney, a resource specialist with the Douglas County Health Department in Omaha, Nebraska, is al...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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11:49
The Evolving Pandemic – A National Perspective on the Effectiveness of Our Public Health Response
Joining me today is Dr. Marcus Plescia, Chief Medical Officer at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Dr. Plescia provides medical leadership and expertise across the agency and helps coordinate ASTHO’s work with the...
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12:00
Public Health Communications Collaborative: Amplifying COVID-19 Public Health Messaging
In this episode, we sit down with an experienced communications strategist to discuss her role in leading an important initiative that brings together key partners in coordinating and amplifying public health messaging on COVID-19.
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14:17
Designing Social Marketing Strategies to Increase Vaccine Uptake and Change Behaviors
In this episode, we talk with an architect and designer of public health and social change programs who blends empirical research and consumer experience to engage people’s imagination and passions in the design and implementation of marketing ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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16:18
Journalists and PIOs Forge Important Alliance in Protecting the Public's Health
In this episode, we sit down with a public health communications professional to discuss how public information officers and journalists have forged important partnerships during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will examine their respective poi...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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14:14
Aligning Public Health Communications and Immunization Programs for Greater Success
In this episode we talk with Monife Stout, Director of the Territorial Immunization Program for the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Health. We will discuss the important alliance between public health communicators and immunization prof...
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13:47
The Pandemic Response: How a Veteran Health Communicator, Former Journalist Sees It
In this episode, we talk with Dan Rutz, a veteran public health communications professional and former CNN medical contributor. Dan gives his candid thoughts and perspectives on the impact of the global pandemic, the effectiveness of our nation...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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14:20
Tips to Help Public Health Professionals Cope with Stress, Fatigue, Burnout During a Pandemic Response
In this episode, we talk with licensed clinical psychologist Tammy McCoy–Arballo about the physical, emotional, and psychological toll this prolonged pandemic response has taken on public health professionals. Listen as she offers her tho...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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14:37
Risk Communication in the Age of COVID-19: Part 2
In this second of a two-part episode, we peek into the trenches of the COVID-19 response with a communications professional who leads the state of Minnesota's public health messaging efforts. His unique insight into the challenges presented by ...
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12:38
Risk Communication in the Age of COVID-19: Part 1
In this first of a two-part episode, we look at how well the nation's COVID-19 health messaging is being received by the public and delve into some of the barriers and opportunities to building and maintaining public trust. We also examine how ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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13:55
The Challenge of COVID-19 Messaging in Communities of Color: Exploring Strategies for Success
It is now widely known that communities of color are being disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and African American communities are being hit particularly hard. In this inaugural edition of the National Public Health Informati...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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24:49