It's July, 2024. Happy summer! This month, we talk with Emily Parker, a marine scientist and advocate with Heal the Bay, a nonprofit aquarium and institute based in Santa Monica, CA. The video below is an in-depth discussion of ocean health and human health — and how they intersect. Video and transcript at https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-ocean-human-health/

June is Alzheimer's Awareness Month. To recognize the importance of brain health, we hosted a round-table discussion between Dr. Lisa Lines, principal investigator for the RTI Rarity project (RTIRarity.io); Chloe McGlynn, a research public health analyst at RTI; Dr. Vicki Johnson-Lawrence, social epidemiologist and community-based participatory researcher at RTI; and Dr. Jazmyne McNeese, an expert on race, wealth, and business ownership and senior data analyst at PolicyMap (PolicyMap.com). We discuss disparities in the prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease & Related Dementias, or ADRD, and explore some of the top modifiable risk factors for ADRD. We share ideas for improving access to care for people with ADRD and show how prevalence, and some of the top predictors, are distributed across the US. You can watch the video for this episode, and leave your feedback, at https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-adrd-2024-06/.

March, 2024: Four years since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, where are we now? What accounts for more than 1 million Americans dead? We talk with Christina van Hal and Nate Rowan, researchers at RTI International, about our analyses of excess mortality from 2020-2022.