Activation Energy

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  • Activation energy: the minimum impetus needed to exact change. Here we discuss the intersections between health (in the broadest sense of the word), medicine, and social justice. We aim to highlight marginalized voices, providing a platform for the diversity of perspectives and narratives around us.
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Episodes
  • Wastewater Surveillance & Linking Environmental and Public Health - Dr. Katrina Korfmacher

    Wastewater Surveillance & Linking Environmental and Public Health - Dr. Katrina Korfmacher
    Dec 4 2021
    Guest bio: Dr. Katrina Korfmacher is a Professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center and Director of the Community Engagement Core at the Environmental Health Sciences Center. [00:51] - What is wastewater-based epidemiology? [02:26] - Wastewater surveillance for COVID-19 & overcoming disparities in testing [04:09] - Monroe County Wastewater Coronavirus Surveillance Group - interdisciplinary collaboration [08:40] - Wastewater monitoring on college campuses [10:47] - Scaling operations up [12:16] - Separations between environmental and public health This episode was recorded in late September 2021.
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    18 mins
  • What makes for effective health advocacy? - Dr. Molly McNulty

    What makes for effective health advocacy? - Dr. Molly McNulty
    Nov 12 2021
    We talk with Dr. Molly McNulty about how being an attorney informs her teaching, Medicaid reforms for children in New York state, and tools for effective public health advocacy. Guest bio: Dr. Molly McNulty is an attorney and an assistant professor of public health law and policy at the University of Rochester. Her interests lie primarily in maternal/child health and adolescent health policy, and she worked in local governments, in nonprofit advocacy groups, and in the corporate sector before returning to academia.
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    21 mins
  • Conversations About COVID, Pt. 2 - Dr. Michael Mendoza

    Conversations About COVID, Pt. 2 - Dr. Michael Mendoza
    Aug 20 2021
    In part 2 of our Conversations About COVID series, we talk with Dr. Michael Mendoza about the impact of individuals’ actions on public health, striving for herd immunity, and the Delta variant as evidence of this pandemic’s tenacity. Guest bio: Dr. Mendoza is the Commissioner of Public Health for Monroe County and a professor of Family Medicine, Public Health Sciences, and Nursing at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He previously served as Medical Director at Highland Family Medicine for seven years, and he helped establish the Finger Lakes COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force in the wake of the pandemic. [00:45] - Vaccine Task Force goals & current directions [03:11] - Vaccine hesitancy, community ambassadors, meeting people where they’re at [09:20] - Reconciling differences, centralization in public health, preventable hospitalizations [13:14] - Herd immunity & looking forward   Additional information & resources: Vaccinated vs. immunized: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/imz-basics.htm) More on the Delta variant: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-variant.html (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/delta-variant.html)  How COVID-19 mRNA vaccines work: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html)  Infographic in https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/vaccines/COVID-19-mRNA-infographic_G_508.pdf (English) & https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/downloads/vaccines/COVID-19-mRNA-infographic_G_SPANISH_508.pdf (Spanish) Find a COVID-19 vaccination site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/search/ (https://www.vaccines.gov/search/) 
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    18 mins
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