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Alumni Trending PodcastAT40. When Your Career Lightbulb Flickers with Dr. Yonette ThomasOn this episode of the podcast, I talk with Dr. Yonette Thomas of Strategic Transitions LLC. Our trend lines include:when your career lightbulb flickers;incorporating all your passions; and the ongoing social justice movement and push for equity in higher education.BioDr. Yonette Felicity Thomas is a globally acknowledged thought leader, urban health champion, and an advocate for valuing the health of women and girls as an economic imperative. A social epidemiologist/medical sociologist, she founded UrbanHealth360, an NGO focused on the health of urban populations in the Global South and has ser...2021-03-2826 min
The UNcivilized Podcast with Traver BoehmWhat an epidemiologist thinks about Covid with Yonette ThomasViruses, those microscopic infectious agents that dwell among us every-single-day, but century after century a particular new virus appears, massively claiming the lives of those who have been infected. The bubonic plague, smallpox, the black plague, HIV, and now COVID-19 (Just to name a few) have been shifting the way humans live in society and changing every life in its path.
Today's guest is Dr. Yonette Thomas, she is a woman of multiple talents and skills, but in this episode, she talked to us from the point of view of a social epidemiologist. This is an interesting...2020-11-0254 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasDavid Vlahov, PhDDr. David Vlahov, the founding President of ISUH, provides a history of the ISUH and gives context for its future directions.
From its inception in 2002 and its first conference in Toronto, ISUH is intended to create a dialogue to define urban health. Over time the annual conferences provide an opportunity for members to connect. The first conference focused on inner city health in high-income countries. It is at the second meeting, held at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City, where a conceptual framework was developed that focused on the social determinants of health that affect individual...2018-08-2922 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasAgis Tsouros, MD, PhDDr. Tsouros is a leading international expert with 30 years of experience in the fields of health policy, urban health and healthy cities, inter-sectoral governance and health in all policies, social determinants of health and equity and health promotion. His Global Healthy Cities initiative is focused on providing leadership and engagement for municipal leaders who want to promote health and sustainability at the local level. Agis points out that it has taken almost four decades to realize that many of the public health challenges of our time can be dealt with effectively at a local level. National policies are always helpful...2018-08-2926 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasHenock Blaise Nguendo-Yongsi, PhDProfessor Nguendo-Yongsi is the President-Elect of ISUH. Professor Nguendo-Yongsi is an Urban Health Influencer. He has been involved in the ISUH for several years and will be working with us to lead the organization into a sustainable future. He is a strong advocate for engaging African scholars in the ISUH global network of urban health thinkers and doers. His work in Africa has made strong theoretical and methodological contributions, addressing environmental hazards and deficiencies in health service provision. He sees this experience as being critical to creating opportunities for trans-disciplinary research in urban health through the ISUH network.
Professor Nguendo-Yongsi...2018-08-2923 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasBlessing MBeru, PhDDr. Blessing MBeru is an ISUH Board member and a lead for the Africa Workgroup. In this podcast, Dr. MBeru believes that his role on the board is to help deepen ISUH’s role and work in Africa where urbanization is a major demographic event that creates many challenging issues related to health. The growth of urban informal settlements has created a number of population health challenges. Blessing sees ISUH’s focus on urban health as an important organizing hub for reaching the African continent and can bring greater relevance and value to what is happening in urban health.
Dr. MBer...2018-08-2924 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasOlga Sarmiento, MDDr. Olga Lucia Sarmiento Dueñas is a member of the ISUH Board. She is a member of the Latin American Urban Health Network and is a member of the executive committee in that network. The LAC Network consists of people and researchers who live in Latin America as well as researchers in the U.S. who work on Latin American issues. She is a physician epidemiologist and analyses community interventions in Latin American that can have influence on the prevention of chronic diseases. Her work as an urban-health-influencer presents many opportunities for collaboration within ISUH. For example, her work w...2018-08-2923 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasBillie Giles-Corti, PhDProfessor Giles-Corti is a public health academic and has been working in the built environment and health space for two decades. Most of her research is with sectors outside of health – urban planners, landscape architects, etc. She is really pleased to see that the health sector is getting into the built environment and health area. Her work has been focused on creating evidence for thinkers and actors outside of health to influence policy and practice. She describes her efforts as a very interesting journey. The evidence-base has been important for sustaining multi-sector partnerships.
When Professor Giles-Corti refers to the health se...2018-08-2931 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasEugenia Birch, PhDProfessor Birch is trained as a city planner focused on building cities of lasting value. She points out that health is a very important aspect of that value. A community of lasting value is a community in which its inhabitants lead healthy productive lives. Mental health and physical health are equally important for lasting healthy cities. The field of city planning has its origins in public health. The focus on sanitation, water, and housing are among the key issues in neighborhood and city planning.
Professor Birch sees ISUH as having three functions: (1) Convener – bringing together people across disciplines. The population of...2018-08-2921 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasJason Corburn, PhDDr. Jason Corburn is a member of the ISUH Board. He is committed to engaged scholarship, by which he means using research and academic resources to promote change, particularly social justice. He sees ISUH as a critical organization because it brings together people from around the world doing specific activities related to urban health. His joining the ISUH board has been a great opportunity for him to connect globally with a whole host of practitioners.
Dr. Corburn likes the term “urban health influencer” and sees significant ways in which his work is influencing urban health. As an academic he runs the...2018-08-2925 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasJose Siri, PhD & Dana Thomson, PhDDana’s and Jose’s collaboration will be presented at the ICUH in Kampala, Uganda in November 2018. Their goal is to influence urban health dialogue between health decision makers and urban health scientists by creating datasets to map areas in slum boundaries where infrastructure is insecure, and health is tenable. They will help to provide estimates of survey data by slum and non-slum areas. However, they point out that this is a piece in a larger puzzle. It allows us to develop data for marginalized populations and informal settlements.
For both Dana and Jose, ISUH can facilitate remote activity and exch...2018-08-2931 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasSainath Banerjee, PhDDr. Sainath Banerjee has been an ISUH Board member over the past year. Being a board member is quite exciting for him because of the scope and nature of the task. He sees his participation in ISUH enabling him to have global impact. He is currently co-leading the community solutions workgroup. This workgroup proposes to share local community solutions for urban health globally and to create opportunities for community-based actions.
Dr. Banerjee started actively working in urban health back in 2002-2003 when he led a small pilot program in India with USAID assistance. His work focused on slums that were...2018-08-2928 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasYonette Thomas, PhD, Introduction to the PodcastIn this first episode, Dr. Thomas talks about the purpose of these Conversations on Urban Health and how they are intended to serve as a stimulus for engaging members, highlighting the work of “Urban Health Influencers,” and generating new ideas for future activities. Yonette is a founding board member of the ISUH (International Society for Urban Health) and recalls the early days of working with David Vlahov, the founder father of ISUH, to secure funding for the conferences. She has come back to ISUH to serve as its first executive director to lead the organization forward at this critical point in i...2018-08-2923 min
Conversations on Urban Health - Dr Yonette ThomasSeason One Wrap Up with Dr Yonette Thomas and Host Mark SylvesterIn this closing episode, Dr. Yonette Thomas and Host Mark Sylvester talk about the 11 amazing conversations for Season 1. It is a sampling of what it is to come. Season 1 began with a historical overview of the organization and the progressed into what the ISUH can do and will do going forward. Dr. David Vlahov, the founding president gave this historical perspective, his ideas for the sustainability of the organization, and his excitement for the future. The organization has evolved, the energy has evolved, and there is a feeling revitalized interest, energy, and engagement.
Yonette sees the “ARC” as her guiding prin...2018-08-2915 min
805conversationsDeveloping Your Professional Roadmap - Yonette Thomas, PhDYonette Thomas, PhD. is an entrepreneur who is moving from a lifetime as an academic research professor to a coach for academics. Her new venture, Strategic Transitions, helps academic professionals navigate the various transitions they’ll face during their career.
She has an impressive background, just read this brief bio from the IAPHS website:
Yonette Thomas, Ph.D., is science advisor for urban health to the New York Academy of Medicine, a member of the International Society for Urban Health Board, and a senior research advisor to the Association of American Geographers. She is a faculty affiliate of the Maryland Po...2017-05-1800 min