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Hosted by Salma Abdalla · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 35 episodes
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In this podcast, hosted by Dr. Salma Abdalla—Assistant Professor and Director of the Healthier Futures Lab at Washington University in St. Louis—we provide rigorous, evidence-based analysis of complex population health challenges. In a time of social, economic, and political upheaval—marked by eroding public trust, polarized narratives, and growing uncertainty—this podcast aims to challenge oversimplified narratives about the forces that shape the health of populations.Salma engages guests from across disciplines in rigorous, evidence-based conversations that challenge conventional wisdom. The conversations sometimes pose uncomfortable questions, seek nuanced perspectives, and question not just what we think, but how we arrive at our conclusions in public health.We explore the inherent complexities, real-world tradeoffs, and unintended consequences of public health interventions. Our goal is to empower listeners with nuanced understanding, helping them navigate these multifaceted iss
Salma Abdalla hosts Complicating The Narrative, a science show with 35 episodes published.
In this last episode of the Building Better Ways of Knowing (BBWK) mini-series, Kumanan joins Salma to discuss knowledge systems and their articulations with public health practice in the global context. They begin the c
Almost nothing about how the United States government funds health research was chosen. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) began with leftover penicillin money and a letter to medical school deans. The decision to f
Sara and Darren join Salma to discuss Civic City’s community-first model. They start the conversation by exploring how Civic City uses knowledge, narrative, and design to co-create solutions with communities. To make thi
This episode is a re-run of the Ideas Matter podcast episode “The Future of Higher Education” hosted by Dean Sandro Galea—Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives at WashU and Co-Director of the Building Better Way
How do values shape the actions and agenda of public health science? Anya and Salma begin their conversation by discussing how values are inherently embedded in every decision that scientists make, but cannot be consider
How and why have certain methods, topics, and assumptions been favored by public health throughout history, and how has that shaped the truths we know today? Merlin joins Salma to discuss how history provides the framewo
What is the relevance of history, and individual stories, when framing current public health research and practice? Rebecca and Salma discuss the role of population-level history, and individual stories, in public health
This episode is a re-run of the Ideas Matter podcast episode “The Future of Science and the Replication Crisis” hosted by Dean Sandro Galea, Co-Director of the Building Better Ways of Knowing initiative, in conversation
What does it take to shift a public health narrative and are researchers ready when the moment comes? Whitney and Salma start their conversation discussing Whitney’s move from obesity to gynecologic research, highlightin
Katherine Keyes joins Salma to discuss the strengths and limitations of epidemiology, beginning with the gap between what averages tell us about populations and what they fail to predict about individuals. They explore h
How can you engage in healthy and fruitful conversation with people who think differently? Brinda Adhikari joins Salma to discuss the importance of healthy disagreement and unpack how conversations between people who thi
What does it take to close the gap between evidence and action in public health? As part of the first episode of the Building Better Ways of Knowing mini-series, Alonzo Plough joins Salma to reflect on the inaugural conv
What would it take to build a public health knowledge system that is more pluralistic, reflexive, and oriented toward action? The Building Better Ways of Knowing initiative was created by the Healthier Futures Lab at Was
When and how, if ever, can public health compromise individual autonomy to prioritize the population’s health? Professor Justin Bernstein joins Salma to discuss the different types of autonomy and liberty, from an ethica
Why should we all be concerned about sea-level rise and its health impacts today, despite it seeming like a problem of the future? Dr. Kathryn Bowen and Dr. Jemilah Mahmood join Salma to discuss the recently launched Lan
What happens when the global health architecture built over 80 years is changed drastically in 16 months and what should replace it? Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe is the Dr. Adolph & Margaret Berger Professor of Medicine and Popul
How do public health institutions experiencing declining public trust go about becoming trustworthy again? Erin O'Malley is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Trust in Health and Science, a coalition of more tha
By some estimates, hundreds of thousands of Americans die each year who would still be alive if the United States had the mortality rates of other wealthy countries. What makes this even more unsettling is that it wasn't
This is a Purple Public Health Project episode. Dr. Itai Bavli is a Research Associate and lecturer at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia, as well as the author of the Su
Why does the US spend more on healthcare than other high-income countries and still have lower life expectancy? Dr. Jose Francisco Figueroa is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Ch
Sandro Galea
Margaret C. Ryan Dean of the School of Public Health · Boston University School of Public Health
1 appearance on this show
Seye Abimbola
Professor of Health Systems · University of Sydney
1 appearance on this show
Sara Bannoura
Civic City
1 appearance on this show
John Ioannidis
Stanford Prevention Research Center
1 appearance on this show
Gbenga Ogedegbe
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
1 appearance on this show
Erin O’Malley
Coalition for Trust in Health and Science
1 appearance on this show
Itai Bavli
University of British Columbia
1 appearance on this show
Jose Francisco Figueroa
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
1 appearance on this show
Maria Glymour
Boston University School of Public Health
1 appearance on this show
Susy Stark
Washington University in St Louis School of Public Health
1 appearance on this show
Dr Kathryn Backholer
Deakin University
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Sabiha Essack
University of KwaZulu-Natal
1 appearance on this show
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