The Skin You're In

By: Partners for Advancing H.E.
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  • Black Americans and other people of color tend to live sicker and die younger than white Americans. Why is this happening? The Skin You’re In Podcast investigates this disturbing phenomenon. We talk to leading health experts about the issues and potential solutions, and we hear from individuals about their firsthand experiences of injustice and its effects on their lives and their communities. Hosted by Thomas LaVeist, Dean, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Partners for Advancing Health Equity, a national health equity learning collaborative led by Tulane. Dr. LaVeist is also Executive Producer and Writer of the groundbreaking docu-series, “The Skin You’re In”. The Skin You’re In Podcast is produced by Partners for Advancing Health Equity, led by Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and is part of the Tulane Institute for Health Equity. Partners for Advancing Health Equity is supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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  • Melody Goodman, PhD: An unconventional path to biostatistics and health equity

    Melody Goodman, PhD: An unconventional path to biostatistics and health equity
    Sep 9 2024
    In this episode we speak to Dr. Melody Goodman, Interim Dean, Professor of Biostatistics, Director, Center for Anti-racism, Social Justice & Public Health, New York University. We cover her childhood living in Jamaica Queens, New York, and her unconventional career journey that led her to biostatistics and academia. We also discuss the importance of mentorship and her approach to mentoring young scholars of color, as well as her extensive work in measuring how engaged community members feel they are in the research process, and training in the basics of research to find areas of disruption through community life experiences.

    Host: Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Principal Investigator, Partners for Advancing Health Equity, Executive Producer and Writer, “The Skin You’re In” documentary

    Guest: Melody Goodman, PhD, Interim Dean, Professor of Biostatistics, Director, Center for Anti-racism, Social Justice & Public Health, New York University

    Papers Discussed Construct Validation of the Research Engagement Tool (REST) Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Academic Public Health: 20 Year Update Increasing Research Literacy in Minority Communities: CARES Fellows Training Program

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    55 mins
  • Dr. Harold “Woody” Neighbors explains goal-striving stress and other racial differences in mental health

    Dr. Harold “Woody” Neighbors explains goal-striving stress and other racial differences in mental health
    Jun 26 2023
    In this episode, we speak to Dr. Harold “Woody” Neighbors, Senior Advisor for public health research and Research Professor with Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, about his life experiences that led him to study the intersection of socio-political determinants and behavioral response in producing racial disparities in disease. We discuss several aspects of his work, including the concept of goal-striving stress, its effects, and racial differences in mental health as well as his experience with community-based participatory research.

    Bio: https://sph.tulane.edu/sbps/harold-neighbors

    Papers discussed in this episode:
    Neighbors (1984) The use of informal and formal help-Four patterns of illness behavior American J of Comm Psychol.pdf

    Neighbors (1995) From Personal Empowerment to Community Action.pdf

    Neighbors (2003) Race and DSM Diagnosis-Clinical Judgment JHSB.pdf

    Neighbors (2011) Goal Striving and Race in Mental Health - Race and Social Problems.pdf

    Neighbors (2022) Blame and Responsibility in Health Equity Social Science and Medicine.pdf

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Kyriakos Markides Ph.D., and the "Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox", a study of aging and health

    Kyriakos Markides Ph.D., and the "Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox", a study of aging and health
    May 24 2023
    In this episode, we speak with Kyriakos (Kokos) Markides, PhD, the Annie and John Gnitzinger Distinguished Professor of Aging and Professor at the School of Public and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and Editor of the Journal of Aging and Health. We discuss his immigration to the United States from Cyprus as a child, and how his life journey led him to the study of aging and health issues in the Mexican American population as well as his development of the hypothesis, the “Hispanic Epidemiological Paradox.”

    Full bio: https://www.utmb.edu/spph/kyriakos-s-markides-phd

    Article and Paper discussed in this episode:

    The Health of Hispanics in the Southwestern United States: an Epidemiologic Paradox KYRIAKOS S.
    MARKIDES, PhD, JEANNINE COREIL, PhD , Public Health Reports, May-June 1986, Vol 101

    The Healthy Immigrant Effect and Aging in the United States and Other Western Countries Kyriakos S.
    Markides, PhD and Sunshine Rote, The Gerontological Society of America 2018

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    1 hr and 4 mins

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