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Focus on Employee Health: Tips to Staying Physically Active while Working on Campus
We all know the how important regular physical activity is to our physical and mental health. But, it can be challenging for many of us to find time, energy, and motiv...
The Early Learning Center at Pathways: Providing Care to Homeless Children and Families
According to Pathways’ news release, one in 23 children in Alabama will experience homelessness before the age of six and most of the state’s homeless children in that...
Interning with Coosa Riverkeeper: A Conversation with Aaron Royer
On this episode of Population Health Plug-In, we interview recent SOPH alum, Aaron Royer, about his summer internship with the Coosa Riverkeeper. Aaron shares informat...
Sustainability at UAB
Ms. Bambi Ingram and Dr. Julie Price join the podcast to talk about sustainability, what it is and what UAB and the School of Public Health are doing to help reduce wa...
From UAB to JCDH: A Conversation with Ashley Chappell, MPH
In this podcast, Ashley Chappell, MPH and Greg Pavela, PhD discuss the educational and research experiences leading to Ashley's current position as a Disease Intervent...
Celebrate National Nutrition Month
March is National Nutrition Month! Learn more about the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, to MyPlate, to food insecurity and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Career Conversation with Stacie June Shelton, MPH
Career Conversations is an opportunity for you to hear from a UAB School of Public Health alum. During this episode, Meena Nabavi, MPH, interviews SOPH Alum Stacie Jun...
Career Conversation with Jeff Stover, MPH
Career Conversations is an opportunity to hear from a UAB School of Public Health alum. In this Career Conversation, Elena Kidd, MPH, will interview SOPH Alum Jeff Sto...
Your Questions Answered about the HPV Vaccine
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine can prevent cervical cancer cases plus a range of other cancers, including many for which there is no routine screening. In this...
Everything you need to know about the Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
The human papillomavirus, or HPV, is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. It’s so common that approximately 80% of people will be infec...
Career Conversation: Meet Rosalind Robinson, (SOPH ’01) Alum
Join us as we talk to University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health alum Rosalind Robinson. Ms. Robinson graduated with a Master’s of Public Health degre...
Homelessness in the time of COVID-19
As most of America has been asked to stay at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and limit exposure to others, there is a group of people who cannot: the homeless. Ms. C...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Plastic Pollution and the Impact of COVID-19
Dr. Lisa McCormick, Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Associate Dean for Public Health Practice at the UAB School of Public He...
Engineering a Survey: Dr. Suzanne Judd and the RURAL Study
The Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal, or RURAL, Study aims to develop a better understanding of risk factors associated with high burdens of heart, lung, blood...
Meet Dr. Wilma Robinson, Deputy Executive Secretary at HHS
Dr. Robinson earned a Masters of Public Health with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health from the UAB School of Public Health in 1998. In 2001, she began worki...
2019 Novel Coronavirus
Dr. Rachael Lee, an assistant professor in the UAB Division of Infectious Disease, joined our podcast to talk about what is currently known about the 2019 novel corona...
Healthy Heart, Healthy You
Dr. Suzanne Judd, nutritional epidemiologist and professor in UAB’s School of Public Health’s Department of Biostatistics, joins us on this episode of the podcast to t...
A GASP for Clean Air
Michael Hansen, executive director of the Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP), joins us to discuss the organization’s mission to advance healthy air &...
HIV/AIDS: Testing, Treatment, and Care in Panama
December is HIV/AIDS Awareness Month, and as part of raising awareness of the issue, Dr. Ana Belén Araúz, a physician specializing in Infectious Diseases at Hospital ...
Meet Jeff Burrowes, (SOPH ’15) Alum and Emergency Preparedness Analyst at the U.S. Senate
Listen in as Jeff Burrowes shares his story of how his career has evolved and lessons learned during his journey.
Ending Homelessness In Birmingham, AL
Carrie Leland, Executive Director of Pathways, joins us to discuss the organization’s mission of empowering women and children to end homelessness in Birmingham Alabama.
Lessons from the Love Canal
In the spring of 1978, when she was just 27 years old, Lois Gibbs discovered that her home and those of her neighbors in Love Canal were sitting next to 20,000 tons of...
Promoting Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Latina Immigrants in Alabama
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and for this month, we would like to highlight the work of Sowing the Seeds of Health, a unique community-based education prog...
The Hidden Dangers of e-cigarettes and vaping
Dr. Susan Walley joins us to discuss the recent outbreak of deaths and severe lung injury among users of e-cigarettes and vaping products.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Ties with the Republic of Panama
UAB’s Assistant Director of Historical Collections and University Archivist sat down to share some of the historical connections and ties between Alabama, UAB, and t...
Alzheimer's and Brain Disease
In this episode, we learn more about Alzheimer's and the work of Alzheimer's of Central Alabama from the organization's executive director, Miller Piggott.
ReThinking Accessibility
Dr. Michele Kong is the co-founder of KultureCity, a nonprofit that raises not only awareness, but promotes a community-shifting acceptance of children with autism....
Sustainable Agriculture
One Health: The Intersection of Human Health, Animal and Environmental Health
Chemical Warfare: Now & Then; Near & Far
A Brief History of Chemical Warfare Agents, Challenges in Response, and Lessons Learned.
The Flu Vaccine
Rachael Lee, MD, Assistant Professor in the UAB Division of Infectious Diseases, talks about the seasonal flu and flu pandemic.