Tag: public health

History, Ethics, and Public Health: An Interview with Dr. Laura Bothwell

History, Ethics, and Public Health: An Interview with Dr. Laura Bothwell

With its unique history filled with both triumphs and dark chapters, public health researchers and professionals have an ethical responsibility to examine the past as they aspire to shape the future of public health by conducting effective and ethical health-related research and work today.

In this episode, Shivani interviews the esteemed ethicist and historian of Public Health, Dr. Laura Bothwell, who discusses how the history of public health has influenced the present. In this informative conversation, Dr. Bothwell sheds light on the weight of history, and discusses the structural obligation that health professionals have to address inequities and institutional biases and their contribution to many of the public health challenges we face today.

Here are some links with more reading related to Dr. Bothwell’s research:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMms1604593
https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp1604635
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119413431.ch31

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How Climate Change and Pollution Affect Human Health: An Interview with Dr. Kai Chen

How Climate Change and Pollution Affect Human Health: An Interview with Dr. Kai Chen

Climate change is not only measured in catastrophic events – it has a gradual impact on the individual health of people all around the world. In this episode of the YJBM podcast, Shivani interviews Dr. Kai Chen, an environmental epidemiologist, researcher, and Professor at the Yale School of Public Health. In this interview, Dr. Chen discusses his work, the links between heat exposure and cardiovascular health, air quality and students’ academic scores, and wildfire smoke and mental health outcomes.
Links:
Disparities in US Heat Vulnerability: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/887792e05ea744d3b085856ca061ef53
Dr. Chen’s CHEN Lab at the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health: https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/kaichen/
February 2024 Article from Dr. Chen: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45901-z

Ep. 29 – Amanda Hitt on why the animal agriculture industry needs whistleblowers

Ep. 29 – Amanda Hitt on why the animal agriculture industry needs whistleblowers

In an age where almost everything we eat is produced outside of public view, whistleblowers are critical to maintaining the integrity of our food systems. These principled insiders are often the first people to warn the public — often at grave personal cost — when food is unsafe, when workers face inhumane conditions, when food labels mislead consumers, and when animals and the environment are being abused. But who defends these front-line defenders?

Our guest, attorney Amanda Hitt, has been a champion and visionary for protecting and empowering food system whistleblowers for over a decade. As the founder and director of the Government Accountability Project’s Food Integrity Campaign, Hitt’s clients have included USDA food safety inspectors in ultra-high-speed slaughterhouses, contract poultry farmers faced with exploitative contracts and company retaliation, and animal researchers privy to taxpayer-funded waste and cruelty. In addition to litigating whistleblowers’ cases, Hitt and her team work to draw public attention to these whistleblowers’ stories and to turn their revelations into systemic legal reforms. In this episode, Hitt takes us inside the world of animal agriculture industry whistleblowers. We speak with Hitt about her clients’ stories and motivations, the patchwork of laws that provide protections and redress for whistleblowers, the reality behind her video game “Bacon Defender,” and why food animal welfare, public health, and worker rights are inextricably intertwined.

Andrea Freeman: Race, Law, and Food Oppression

Andrea Freeman: Race, Law, and Food Oppression

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Food policies—even if seemingly fair or innocent—have disproportionately harmed communities of color and their health. Legal scholar Andrea Freeman asks questions of how we use the law to prove and address such injustices. In this archival episode, she shares more about this legal process, and the broader ways to challenge the interests of Big Food.

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