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Where the Internet LivesInvisible ThreatsLast March, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It carried more than 40 payloads on board, including a satellite called MethaneSAT, which was designed to track methane emissions around the globe. Cutting methane emissions is a critical step toward reducing the rise of global temperatures that climate change is spreading to communities.In this episode, we have two stories about how data centers – and the AI they enable – are helping to mitigate the invisible threats of heat and air pollution around the world, particularly for vulnerable populations....
2024-10-3035 min
Longer. Healthier. Better.Health equity with Dr. Monica Bharel – technology, social determinants, and Boston’s longevity hubListen to this special episode of Longer. Healthier. Better., recorded live at The Boston Globe’s Health Equity Day 2024. Host Janet Wu sat down with Dr. Monica Bharel, Clinical Lead of Public Sector Health at Google, to talk about the innovation fueling longevity in Boston and beyond. Dr. Bharel reflects on her time as a Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner and shares her perspective on the future of health equity. Listen to Dr. Bharel and Janet’s discussion about: How the intersection of technology, collaboration, and longevity can enable people to live longer, healthier lives Insight into G...
2024-08-2925 min
Public Health Review Morning EditionData Tune-Up, ASTHO Media PlaybookDr. Monica Bharel, Senior Public Health Advisor at Advanced Clinical, discusses data infrastructure needs; Dr. Michael Fraser, ASTHO CEO, says new a ASTHO guidebook will help public health leaders navigate news media requests; Pacific Island region health leaders plan to meet in June to discuss ways to control the Dengue virus; and you have one more day to purchase online tickets to ASTHO’s TechXpo and Futures Forum starting tomorrow. Public Health TechXpo and Futures Forum The story of the COVID-19 vaccine, from the lab to millions of arms Dengue Preparedness in...
2023-05-2204 min
The American Health PodcastMassachusetts’ Unique Approach to COVID-19 Vaccine RolloutsThis American Health episode is a rebroadcast of Public Health on Call, a podcast produced by the Bloomberg School of Public Health that offers science and evidence-based insights to help understand today’s public health news—and what it means for tomorrow. This episode — originally broadcast on January 7, 2021— highlights one of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative’s cross-cutting themes—equity—and focuses on Massachusetts’ unique approach to COVID-19 vaccine distribution. Led by Health Commissioner Dr. Monica Bharel, this effort includes prioritizing communities impacted by institutional racism and those with disproportionately high numbers of COVID-19 infections. In a conversation...
2021-01-2616 min
The CodcastMonica Bharel, realistic optimistMonica Bharel, the state’s public health commissioner, is definitely a glass-half-full type of person.
On the Health or Consequences edition of the Codcast with Paul Hattis of Tufts University Medical School and John McDonough of Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Bharel went through a series of major challenges facing her agency and in each instance ended her discussion on an optimistic note.
2019-11-1131 min
NACDDHealth: To Be Determined - Adapting Determination of Need to Serve CommunityDr. Gabriel Kaplan, NACDD Board Past President, interviews Dr. Monica Bharel, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, and Ben Wood, Director of the Office of Community Health Planning and Engagement within the Department of Public Health. They discuss Massachusetts’s unique approach to addressing the social determinants of health, especially their adaptation of the Determination of Need program. For more information on this program, please visit: https://www.mass.gov/service-details/community-health-initiative-chi-requirements
DOWNLOADABLE TRANSCRIPT: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.chronicdisease.org/resource/resmgr/website-2020/commstools/podcast/transcriptions/socially_determined_adapting.pdf
2019-10-0423 min
RoS: Review of SystemsRoS Journal Club Opioid OD among pregnant women, midlife deaths in the US & assn of scribes with MD workflow & patient experienceThis week, Thomas, Audrey, and David bring you a journal club featuring discussion of three recent papers: Fatal and Nonfatal Overdose Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Massachusetts by Davida M Shiff, Timothy Nielsen, Mishka Terplan, Malena Hood, Dana Bernson, Hafsato Diop, Monica Bharel, Timothy Wilens, Marc LaRochelle, Alexander Walley, and Thomas Land; Changes in midlife death rates across racial and ethnic groups in the United States: systematic analysis of vital statistics by Steven H Woolf, Derek Chapman, Jeanine Buchanich, Kendra Bobby, Emily Zimmerman, and Sarah Blackburn; and Association of Medical Scribes in Primary care with physician workflow and...
2019-05-2700 min
NPC in the 413Vaping and Nicotine: Why this Trend is Capturing Our KidsIn this episode NPC sits down with Melinda Calianos, Director of the Hampshire Franklin Tobacco-Free Community Partnership to give us the facts on vaping: what is it? what do vapes contain? why are kids picking up the habit of a device designed originally to help smokers quit? how can adults talk to kids about this trend before it becomes a life-long habit? and if you are a teen who wants to quit where can you get help?
Resources mentioned in this podcast:
https://truthinitiative.org/quitecigarettes
https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2019/01/24/the-dangers-of-vaping-monica-bharel
2019-02-1300 min
The Forum at HCSPHOpioid Painkiller Abuse: Ending the Crisis | The Forum at HSPHPowerful at relieving pain, opioids undoubtedly help many people cope with illness or injury, yet they present a real risk for developing substance use disorders. In 2013, drug overdoses involving prescription pain medication killed 44 people on average every day in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency reports that enough prescription pain medication was prescribed in 2010 “to medicate every American adult around-the-clock for a month.” In addition, studies have shown that individuals with prescription drug use disorders can transition to heroin as their disease progresses, since heroin has similar effects.
This Forum event — in con...
2015-05-2058 min