Podcasts about health disparities research

An expanding field of research is looking at how the gut affects different parts of people's health, but how does it affect brain health? Drs. Barb Bendlin and Tyler Ulland join the podcast to talk about their 2023 study, which suggests a link between gut health, aging and changes related to Alzheimer's disease. They discuss their findings on how gut inflammation could impact brain health, as well as explain what it means to have good gut health and how food, medications, where one lives and other factors can impact the gut microbiome. Guests: Barbara Bendlin, PhD, professor, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, deputy director, University of Wisconsin (UW) Center for Health Disparities Research, and Tyler Ulland, PhD, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, leader, Ulland Lab Show Notes Learn more about the 2024 Fall Community Conversation: The Impact of Social Connections on Brain Health and register to attend in person on our website. Read Dr. Bendlin and Dr. Ulland's study, “Gut inflammation associated with age and Alzheimer's disease pathology: a human cohort study,” on the National Library of Medicine website. Learn more about Dr. Bendlin and Dr. Uland's study in the article, “Gut inflammation linked to aging and Alzheimer's disease,” on the UW School of Medicine and Public Health website. Learn more about Dr. Ulland from his profile on the Ulland lab webpage. Learn more about Dr. Bendlin from her profile on the UW Center for Health Disparities Research website. Connect with us Find transcripts and more at our website. Email Dementia Matters: dementiamatters@medicine.wisc.edu Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe to the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center's e-newsletter. Enjoy Dementia Matters? Consider making a gift to the Dementia Matters fund through the UW Initiative to End Alzheimer's. All donations go toward outreach and production.

As clinicians working with patients who have sustained an acute brain injury, we are naturally focused on caring for the injury itself. Until recent years, the clinical severity of brain injury was regarded as the main driver of prognosis and outcomes. However, we are beginning to understand how non-clinical factors, including the social determinants of health (SDOH), contribute to differential risk for all brain injuries including hemorrhagic stroke, and continue to impact our patients' recovery even after injury. In this week's episode Dr Lauren Koffman is joined by Dr Nirupama Yechoor and Dr Rachel Forman to discuss how understanding the complex interplay between clinical and social determinants of health is crucial for clinicians caring for hemorrhagic stroke survivors, not only for recovery and secondary prevention, but also to effectively counsel families on primary prevention. Lauren is also joined by Mike Foster, a member of Yale's Stroke Patient Advisory Board who talks about his experience as a stroke survivor. You can read the Currents article at https://currents.neurocriticalcare.org/Leading-Insights/Article/innovation-for-health-disparities-research-in-hemorrhagic-stroke.  Stroke survivors or those who care for loved ones who have had a stroke can sign-up for Dr Yechoor's study at https://rally.massgeneralbrigham.org/study/strokewellbeing. 

Listen to this episode of People of Precision Health to learn about: How to engage communities in health disparities research with underserved communities A shift in thinking about how researchers should address health disparities research How defining catchment areas can hold community hospitals accountable in their resourcing of cancer care and cancer research Learn about the Chickahominy TRUTH research projectWatch a video about the Chickahominy TRUTH project

2022 CommonSpirit Health Physician Enterprise National Abstract Competition WinnersAbstract Title: Improving the Transition into Adulthood Process for Children with Neurodevelopmental DisabilitiesSummary: Children with neurodevelopmental disabilities and their caregivers face additional challenges as patients transition into adulthood. This study evaluated the preferences of topics that caregivers vs clinicians would like to address during "transition" visits. This highlights a growing acceptance that patient-centered care ensures there is dedicated time to discuss the needs, questions, and queries of patients/caregivers, especially for children with neurodevelopmental disabilities. Academic Affiliation: Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children's Hospital

How can Artificial Intelligence be used to promote health equity? How does the history of racism in the United States impact the representation of marginalized people in healthcare research? In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts and gives her own insights into multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Dr. Irene Dankwa-Mullan, Chief Health Equity Officer and Deputy Chief Health Officer at IBM Watson Health. They discuss her work at the intersection of healthcare, public health, and technology, which uses artificial intelligence to personalize healthcare for individuals within a larger system. Dr. Dankwa-Mullan highlights the importance placed on minimizing human bias in AI programs so it can successfully promote health equity. BIO: Irene Dankwa-Mullan MD MPH is a nationally recognized industry physician and scientist, health equity thought leader, scholar, and author with over 20 years of diverse local-regional, national, and global leadership experience in primary care, healthcare systems, businesses, and the community. She is a member of the IBM Industry Academy, a selected community of pre-eminent leaders to drive innovation and engage in cutting-edge work. She is the lead scientific editor of the first authoritative resource textbook ‘The Science of Health Disparities Research' designed to identify research questions, guide collaborative and participatory efforts with communities to promote health equity. LINKS: LinkedIn: Irene Dankwa-Mullan MD MPH Twitter: @dankwairene The Science of Health Disparities Research - by Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable and Irene Dankwa-Mullan and Kevin L. Gardner

Dementia Matters Special Series: The National Strategy for Alzheimer's Disease Data and Research Part 6 Concluding our special series on the 2022 Spring ADRC Meeting, Dr. Cerise Elliott joins the podcast to discuss the NIA's work within the field of Alzheimer's disease research, how the NIA promotes open science to advance research across the ADRC program, and other key takeaways from the spring meeting. Guest: Cerise Elliott, PhD, program director for clinical interventions and diagnostics, division of neuroscience, National Institute on Aging Show Notes Watch Dr. Cerise Elliott's session from the Spring ADRC Meeting, “Q&A with Program,” on NACC's YouTube channel. Listen to our previous episode with Dr. Elliott, "National Priorities for Dementia and Health Disparities Research," on our website. Learn more about Dr. Elliott at her bio on the National Institute on Aging website. Learn more about the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center at their website. Connect with us Find transcripts and more at our website. Email Dementia Matters: dementiamatters@medicine.wisc.edu Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Subscribe to the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center's e-newsletter.

In this episode, Marc and Mo are joined by Kanu Okike (JBJS Deputy Editor for Health Disparities) in a wide-ranging discussion on the multifaceted issue of health disparities in orthopaedics, with a focus on steering the entire field (including researchers, insurers, health systems, funding bodies, and JBJS itself) toward finding meaningful solutions in this important area. OrthoJOE Mailbag: feedback, comments, and suggestions from our audience can be sent to orthojoe@jbjs.org Links: Okike K. My Grandmother's Knees: A Call for Research on Strategies to Address Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Orthopaedic Surgery. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2021 Nov 3;103(21):1961-1962. doi: 10.2106/JBJS.21.01081. https://bit.ly/3JYY58R Subspecialties: Basic Science Education and Training Ethics Foot & Ankle Hand & Wrist Hip Infection Knee Oncology Orthopaedic Essentials Pain Management Rehabilitation Pediatrics Spine Shoulder Elbow Sports Medicine Trauma

So, what's the deal with sleep, immune function, and mortality risk? On today's episode, Dr. Eric Shattuck and Dr. Corey Sparks discuss their collaboration to investigate how morality risks may be affected by sleep quality, through white blood cell function. Listen for more intriguing insights and read their paper here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33527525/ Dr. Eric Shattuck is an Assistant Professor of Research at The University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA) and interim director of the Institute for Health Disparities Research. You can contact him or find out more about his work here: https://sites.google.com/view/ericshattuck/home and on Twitter: @eric_shattuck. Dr. Corey S. Sparks is an Associate Professor of Demography at UTSA. You can find out more about his work and forthcoming book here: http://coreysparks.weebly.com/ and on Twitter: @CoreySparks1 Contact the Sausage of Science Podcast and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Cara Ocobock, Website: sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, HBA Public Relations Committee Chair, Website: cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email: cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Delaney Glass, Website: dglass.netlify.app/, Email: dglass1@uw.edu, Twitter: @GlassDelaney Alexandra Niclou, Email: aniclou@nd.edu, Twitter: @fiat_Luxandra

Laura E. Gómez is a professor of law, sociology, and Chicana/Chicano studies at UCLA Misconceiving Mothers: Legislators, Prosecutors and the Politics of Prenatal Drug Exposure, Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research, and Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. Today we'll be talking about her new book. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism, which is published by The New Press.

Special Episode with Dr. Perkins-Waters on the PowerBanking Podcast Upon completion of her PhD, Martinique Perkins Waters spent three years in a primary research position in the School of Public Health. As a faculty member in the Department of Health Behavior, She studied the health outcomes of family caregivers. During that time, Dr. Perkins Waters worked collaboratively with her peers to publish seven manuscripts and worked on several non-profit, private, and federal grants. Additionally, She made 15 presentations on her research and spent a year training in Health Disparities Research program. She used the knowledge she gained as a RCMAR Health Disparities scholar in both her research and as the course master for a graduate level African American Health Issues course. Since 2013, Dr. Perkins Waters has been in a part-time faculty position at UAB and Jefferson-State Community College. She educates students on both the basis of psychological principles and introduce them to the advanced skills required to complete a research project. Dr. Perkins-Waters is now Assistant Professor of Psychology at The University of West Alabama. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/powerbanking/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/powerbanking/support

This week on the Sausage of Science, Chris and Cara chat with Dr. Eric Shattuck, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas, San Antonio who is also affiliated with the Institute for Health Disparities Research. Dr. Shattuck is a biocultural anthropologist whose research connects hormones, health, and behavior in humans. Dr. Shattuck discusses his interest in sickness behavior, evolutionary medicine, and some of his exciting new projects. To learn more about Dr. Shattuck, check out his webpage https://sites.google.com/view/ericshattuck/home, email him at eric.shattuck@utsa.edu, or follow him on twitter @eric_shattuck. Curious to hear what they're listening to? Check out their song recommendations: Eric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5vr_Vhoumc, Chris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFS5HCBrSr0, and Cara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmc21V-zBq0. The Sausage of Science is produced by Cara Ocobock and Chris Lynn, with assistance from Junior Service Fellow Caroline Owens for the Public Relations Committee of the Human Biology Association. The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact the Sausage of Science and Human Biology Association: Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation Website:humbio.org/, Twitter: @HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells, Public Relations Committee Chair, Email: howellsm@uncw.edu Cara Ocobock, Website: https://sites.nd.edu/cara-ocobock/, Email:cocobock@nd.edu, Twitter:@CaraOcobock Chris Lynn, Website:cdlynn.people.ua.edu/, Email:cdlynn@ua.edu, Twitter:@Chris_Ly Caroline Owens, Email: cowens8@emory.edu, Twitter: @careowens

Moro Salifu, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP

Mary Anne Adams is Founder and Executive Director of ZAMI NOBLA the National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging a service, advocacy and community-based research organization for Black lesbians 40 years old and older. She founded and developed the Audre Lorde Scholarship Fund, an international fund that awarded over $250,000 in scholarship monies and expenses to out LGBT scholars of color of all ages from 1997-2008. In 2015, the Scholarship fund redirected its focus to award funds only to Black lesbians and lesbians of color over 40 years of age attending accredited academic institutions in the United States. Adams received her B.A. in Sociology and Social Work from the University of Mississippi and a master’s in social work from Georgia State University. A twelve-year breast cancer survivor, Mary Anne served as an inaugural member of the LGBT National Advisory Council for Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. In 2018, she was awarded an achievement award by the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association for promoting equality in healthcare for LGBTQ people. Adams has served on the boards of several organizations and was an inaugural member of the LGBT Advisory Council to the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta as well as one of the founding members of the Atlanta Black LGBT Coalition. Although her focus has been on the African American lesbian community, she uses her seat at the table to also advocate for other marginalized groups. Adams has served as Director of the Community Engagement Core within the Center of Excellence for Health Disparities Research in GSU’s School of Public Health. She has directed multiple research projects at both Emory and GSU since the 1990’s. In all her activities Mary Anne Adams promotes social justice, human rights and social/health equity access through education, advocacy, public policy and research, resource development and multi-generational building.

Carla Bountin-Foster, MD

Carla Bountin-Foster, MD

Carla Bountin-Foster, MD

Guest: Dr. Cerise Elliott, Senior Research Program Analyst at the National Institute on Aging Dr. Cerise Elliott gives a look at the structure and function of the National Institutes of Health and its work relating to Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia. She also emphasizes the importance of diversity in research and of recruitment and retention as Alzheimer’s disease-related research moves forward.

Sara Young, Director of Tribal and Tribal College Partnerships and CBPR & Health Disparities Core Co-Director, spoke on "Building Health Disparities Research Capacity in Montana's Tribal Colleges" on November 2, 2011.

Marilyn S. Sommers, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Lillian S. Brunner Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing, and Associate Director, Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Dr. Sommers has developed a program of research focused on human response to injury in general, with particular emphasis on risk-taking behaviors that lead to injury, as well as on the physical consequences of injury. She has systematically built the science of injury through a number of productive research programs that have led to sustained funding from federal agencies. Through a series of randomized controlled trials she has tested the effectiveness of screening and brief intervention to reduce health-compromising behaviors such as problem drinking and risky driving. The overall scientific significance of this work is the insight that injury risk comes from a cluster of risk-taking behaviors that need to be addressed by health care providers, and that these behaviors are amenable to interventions that promote health and safety. She has forged a new area of inquiry by developing innovative techniques for the forensic rape exam that will quantify injury by digital image analysis. This important work has the potential to reduce health disparities by providing sensitive and specific techniques to detect injury regardless of the skin color of rape survivors. Through systemic inquiry and extensive publications, Dr. Sommers has raised important questions about risk-taking, the consequences physical injury, and strategies to reduce injury. Her work has enhanced injury science and led to promoting health. Dr. Sommers is a superb disseminator of findings, with more than 80 published articles, abstracts, reviews, and reports; 10 books or editorships; and 12 chapters in books. She has an extraordinary publication record in clinical as well as research journals. She has consulted nationally and internationally and has been on numerous review panels and study sections for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and Ireland’s Health Research Board. In addition, Dr. Sommers serves as Chair of the Steering Committee for the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Sciences (CANS) and serves as Chair of the Research Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the first nurse scientist to do so.

Marilyn S. Sommers, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the Lillian S. Brunner Professor of Medical-Surgical Nursing, and Associate Director, Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. Dr. Sommers has developed a program of research focused on human response to injury in general, with particular emphasis on risk-taking behaviors that lead to injury, as well as on the physical consequences of injury. She has systematically built the science of injury through a number of productive research programs that have led to sustained funding from federal agencies. Through a series of randomized controlled trials she has tested the effectiveness of screening and brief intervention to reduce health-compromising behaviors such as problem drinking and risky driving. The overall scientific significance of this work is the insight that injury risk comes from a cluster of risk-taking behaviors that need to be addressed by health care providers, and that these behaviors are amenable to interventions that promote health and safety. She has forged a new area of inquiry by developing innovative techniques for the forensic rape exam that will quantify injury by digital image analysis. This important work has the potential to reduce health disparities by providing sensitive and specific techniques to detect injury regardless of the skin color of rape survivors. Through systemic inquiry and extensive publications, Dr. Sommers has raised important questions about risk-taking, the consequences physical injury, and strategies to reduce injury. Her work has enhanced injury science and led to promoting health. Dr. Sommers is a superb disseminator of findings, with more than 80 published articles, abstracts, reviews, and reports; 10 books or editorships; and 12 chapters in books. She has an extraordinary publication record in clinical as well as research journals. She has consulted nationally and internationally and has been on numerous review panels and study sections for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and Ireland’s Health Research Board. In addition, Dr. Sommers serves as Chair of the Steering Committee for the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Sciences (CANS) and serves as Chair of the Research Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the first nurse scientist to do so.

r. Loretta Sweet Jemmott is the van Ameringen Chair in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Director of the Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing. Dr. Jemmott also holds secondary appointments in the University’s School of Medicine and Graduate School of Education. In 2004 Dr. Jemmott was named Assistant Provost for Minority & Gender Equity Issues for the University. Dr. Jemmott has been involved in a number of research projects focusing on designing and testing theory-based, culturally sensitive, and developmentally appropriate strategies to reduce HIV risk-associated sexual behaviors among African Americans, the Latino-population and South African youth. She, along with her husband, Dr. John B. Jemmott, III, have been funded by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, The National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute for Nursing Research, for a total of about 86 million research dollars. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention selected her HIV risk-reduction curriculum entitled, “Be Proud! Be Responsible! Strategies to Empower Youth to Reduce Their Risk for AIDS” as a model curriculum which is being disseminated nationally as part of CDC’s program entitled, “Research to Classrooms, Programs That Work!” Dr. Jemmott has received many awards for her research and community efforts, including the Congressional Merit Recognition Award, The Red Ribbon Award for outstanding service in the field of HIV/AIDS, and the Governor of New Jersey’s Nurse Merit Award in Advanced Nurse Practice. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a member of the CDC Division of HIV, STD, & TB Advisory Council, and a member of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Jemmott has published extensively in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention and adolescent sexual behavior.

Dr. Loretta Sweet Jemmott is the van Ameringen Chair in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing and Director of the Center for Health Disparities Research at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing. Dr. Jemmott also holds secondary appointments in the University’s School of Medicine and Graduate School of Education. In 2004 Dr. Jemmott was named Assistant Provost for Minority & Gender Equity Issues for the University. Dr. Jemmott has been involved in a number of research projects focusing on designing and testing theory-based, culturally sensitive, and developmentally appropriate strategies to reduce HIV risk-associated sexual behaviors among African Americans, the Latino-population and South African youth. She, along with her husband, Dr. John B. Jemmott, III, have been funded by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, The National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute for Nursing Research, for a total of about 86 million research dollars. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention selected her HIV risk-reduction curriculum entitled, “Be Proud! Be Responsible! Strategies to Empower Youth to Reduce Their Risk for AIDS” as a model curriculum which is being disseminated nationally as part of CDC’s program entitled, “Research to Classrooms, Programs That Work!” Dr. Jemmott has received many awards for her research and community efforts, including the Congressional Merit Recognition Award, The Red Ribbon Award for outstanding service in the field of HIV/AIDS, and the Governor of New Jersey’s Nurse Merit Award in Advanced Nurse Practice. She is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, a member of the CDC Division of HIV, STD, & TB Advisory Council, and a member of the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Jemmott has published extensively in the area of HIV/AIDS prevention and adolescent sexual behavior.