Welcome to What in the Health? (also known as WitH The Podcast)! We are a digital platform that helps young adults make informed health choices by combining credible health information with expert opinions at Johns Hopkins University. Recognizing that the abundance of public health research and its intersections can be daunting, we wanted to create a podcast and social media platform that condenses everything you need to know in under an hour. Why under an hour? Because we know that our audience leads busy lives, and sometimes, just knowing the basics about topics, such as COVID-19, skincare, or even Big Pharma, is enough to spark one’s curiosity to explore more. As a student-led initiative, our goal is to help you recognize trends, misconceptions, resources, and information to take control of your health. Between regular podcast episodes, interviews, informative social media posts, and much more, we invite you to join a community that empowers your experiences with public health. Our hope is that you recognize that public health can be found anywhere and everywhere around you.
Happy New Year from the team at What in the Health! To start off 2023, we interviewed Dr. Angela Fusaro, an emergency medicine physician and co-founder of the telemedicine platform Physician 360. We discuss how telehealth works, how it affects patient-physician interactions, and its role in the future of healthcare, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this episode, we interviewed Dr. Raegan McDonald-Mosley, an OB-GYN physician, the former CMO of Planned Parenthood, and the current CEO of Power to Decide, about what reproductive justice is and how it originated. We apply these foundations to discuss the future of abortion, family planning, and reproductive justice since the overturning of Roe v. […]
In this episode, we invited Dr. Patty Mechael, a public health specialist and the author of several health/tech publications and the middle grade fiction novel The Antidotes Pollution Solution, to speak about the values of storytelling in the field of public health. We discuss the key roles of storytelling in humanizing public health issues and […]
Welcome to our first Editor’s Note, where we go off the script to make a big announcement about our co-host, Eric. We look back at our podcasting experience so far, what we’ve learned, and our goals for the future.
We had a conversation with Dr. Beth McGinty, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management, about what a substance use disorder is and how it can affect the lives of young adults. We hope that this episode informs you about the connections between […]
In this episode, we interviewed Dr. Bob Johnston, an Assistant Professor and researcher of the JHU Department of Biology, about the challenges of comprehending medical/public health research and the impacts of health misinformation from social media. We hope that our discussion raises awareness of potential roadblocks when finding credible sources and gives you helpful tips […]
In this episode, we talked with Dr. Megan Latshaw, an Associate Scientist in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at JHU’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, about what environmental health means and how it impacts our daily lives. We hope that this episode informs you about current environmental health crises and what can be […]
In this episode, we talked with Dr. Kathryn McDonald, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University. We discuss the impact of visible factors, such as race, age, and sex, on medical diagnoses. We also explore the challenges of the patient-physician interaction and how we can advocate for ourselves in a healthcare setting.
In this episode, we talked with Will Nation, a Doctoral Intern at the Johns Hopkins Counseling Center, about common mental health issues prevalent on college campuses and what we can do to alleviate stress.
Welcome to our first episode! Here we discuss the impact that COVID-19 had on college students across the US with students from UMich and UGA, along with Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos, a pulmonary critical care physician from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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