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Black Americans and other people of color tend to live sicker and die younger than white Americans. Why is this happening? The Skin You’re In Podcast investigates this disturbing phenomenon....
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Black Americans and other people of color tend to live sicker and die younger than white Americans. Why is this happening? The Skin You’re In Podcast investigates this disturbing phenomenon. We talk to leading health experts about the issues and potential solutions, and we hear from individuals about their firsthand experiences of injustice and its effects on their lives and their communities. Hosted by Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a national health equity learning collaborative led by Tulane. Dr. LaVeist is also Executive Producer and Writer of the groundbreaking docu-series, “The Skin You’re In”. The Skin You’re In Podcast is produced by Partners for Advancing Health Equity, led by Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and is part of the Tulane Institute for Health Equity. Partners for Advancing Health Equity is supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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The Skin You're In
The Skin You're In
Dr. Harold “Woody” Neighbors explains goal-striving stress and other racial differences in mental health
26 JUN 2023 · In this episode, we speak to Dr. Harold “Woody” Neighbors, Senior Advisor for public health research and Research Professor with Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, about his life experiences that led him to study the intersection of socio-political determinants and behavioral response in producing racial disparities in disease. We discuss several aspects of his work, including the concept of goal-striving stress, its effects, and racial differences in mental health as well as his experience with community-based participatory research.
Bio: https://sph.tulane.edu/sbps/harold-neighbors
Papers discussed in this episode:
https://tulane.box.com/s/1pulh1yw8jww1pjvqh6jqfpxsl7i892w
https://tulane.box.com/s/g8ty7o3mi791j4swexcz3b8icc736bi4
https://tulane.box.com/s/vkx8ah1b4twhz0c3ragafyne4fss6nsf
https://tulane.box.com/s/lrxuths8t59pjjtmlndxsufiav5d39oh
https://tulane.box.com/s/jzteqe8jtspcl6upj1kjvhtjncnnaf5s
https://files.constantcontact.com/4c2e156f801/b5e9c0c9-2dd3-475c-a171-34d87b4159ea.pdf
https://youtu.be/MJiQabtSjlg
Kyriakos Markides Ph.D., and the "Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox", a study of aging and health
24 MAY 2023 · In this episode, we speak with Kyriakos (Kokos) Markides, PhD, the Annie and John Gnitzinger Distinguished Professor of Aging and Professor at the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and Editor of the Journal of Aging and Health. We discuss his immigration to the United States from Cyprus as a child, and how his life journey led him to the study of aging and health issues in the Mexican American population as well as his development of the hypothesis, the “Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox.”
Full bio: https://www.utmb.edu/spph/kyriakos-s-markides-phdhttps://www.utmb.edu/spph/kyriakos-s-markides-phd
Article and Paper discussed in this episode:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3086917/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3086917/
https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/59/2/205/5151354
https://academic.oup.com/gerontologist/article/59/2/205/5151354
https://files.constantcontact.com/4c2e156f801/66f39738-147a-4d22-92db-9239e26cf03b.pdf
Former HHS Secretary, Louis Sullivan M.D., a life devoted to reducing health inequities.
24 MAY 2023 · In this episode we speak with Louis Sullivan, M.D., former Secretary of Health and Human Services under President George H.W. Bush, and the founding dean and director of the School of Medicine at Morehouse College. We discuss defining moments in his life and how they influenced his pursuit of a career in medicine, his establishment of institutions to improve opportunities for historically
underrepresented communities, and his time as Health and Human Services Secretary, where he led several efforts to reduce health inequities. He is also author of several books, including https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12885/well-fight-it-out-here
Full biography: https://pemsm.com/enter/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/LWS-Bio-2021.pdf
https://files.constantcontact.com/4c2e156f801/ea6a665f-1469-4f80-be3b-6a427f5947f4.pdf
Black Americans and other people of color tend to live sicker and die younger than white Americans. Why is this happening? The Skin You’re In Podcast investigates this disturbing phenomenon....
show more
Black Americans and other people of color tend to live sicker and die younger than white Americans. Why is this happening? The Skin You’re In Podcast investigates this disturbing phenomenon. We talk to leading health experts about the issues and potential solutions, and we hear from individuals about their firsthand experiences of injustice and its effects on their lives and their communities. Hosted by Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a national health equity learning collaborative led by Tulane. Dr. LaVeist is also Executive Producer and Writer of the groundbreaking docu-series, “The Skin You’re In”. The Skin You’re In Podcast is produced by Partners for Advancing Health Equity, led by Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and is part of the Tulane Institute for Health Equity. Partners for Advancing Health Equity is supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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| Categories | Social Sciences , Non-Profit |
| Website | partners4healthequity.org |
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