She Really Gets It: A Public Health Podcast

Season 2, Episode 7: Harvard, Eugenics, and Public Health

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Black and disabled children are pushed out of preschool at alarming rates compared to all other groups of children. Pre-school pushout has long term consequences for their health but the solution to this lies in dissecting the myth of the meritocracy. This episode is for anyone who has ever had questions about standardized testing, affirmative action and what ...

Patient Advocacy and Public Health w/ guest Kate Hufford, MPH

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If there’s something strange in your medical records, Who are you gonna call? Patient advocacy. Our guest, Kate Hufford, public health professional and patient advocate is going to tell us who and how to ask for help. If you’ve ever felt silenced in a healthcare setting this episode is for you. If you or a loved one has ever been harmed in a healthcare s...

* How much do you know about the beauty products you use? Have you ever wondered if they are affecting your health? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Elissia Franklin, research scientist and beauty justice advocate about a recently published study she authored titled “Identifying Chemicals of Health Concern in Hair Extensions Using Suspect Screening and Non-Targeted Analysis” and explore why Black women’s beauty products are more ...

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* “It’s Vicious Out Here, Just Keep Your Legs Closed”. Who said that? Certainly not this week’s guest. Her name is Brenice Duroseau, infectious disease and addiction medicine nurse practitioner and that’s the title of her poster presentation that was inspired by a social media user’s response to learning a Black female celebrity had decided to use PrEP for HIV prevention. In this episode we discuss how stigma and ...

Season 2, Episode 2: Are We Literally Dying For Fashion? w/ Sustainable Fashion Designer Mahdiyyah Muhammad

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Public health is fashion. You got that right. In this week’s episode, “She Really Gets It” will be in conversation with regenerative fashion designer and researcher, Mahdiyyah* Muhammad to discuss what our clothing has to do with housing, climate change and that strange rash that appeared after your hospital st...

Season 2, Episode 1: What To Do When White Women Cry and Call You Angry: An Honest Conversation About Being a Black Woman In The Public Health Workforce w/ Dr. Yanique Redwood

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“Wow, I wonder why she was chosen to manage the DEI Committee?” Those were the first words a young Black public health professional heard uttered out of the mouth of a white colleague on the first day of her first “real paid job” in public heal...

Season 2, Episode 3: “Public Health, The Olympics and Transphobia” 

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Sacrifice the few to save the many. That seems to be the policy of the very people claiming to represent all people. In this week’s episode “She Really Gets It” examines why so many supposedly progressive representatives are willing to sacrifice the very lives of trans folks who make up less than 1% of the population and why this is a gateway to deny...

Stefanie and the guests discuss Meghan and Harry, childhood obesity, and what the f*** is going on at the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Welcome back to She Really Gets It. I'm Stefanie Rhodes, a health educator and reformed public health professional and in this week's episode, we will be discussing some of the most controversial headlines in public health and oddly enough the Royal Family.

Topics: Meghan and Harry (Megan the Sta...

In this week's episode, Stefanie sits down with Jen Grice, Director of Emergency Management for Alachua County, Florida to discuss inequity in disaster response and recovery.

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In this week's episode, Stefanie sits down with Dr. Beatriz Reyes to discuss reproductive justice as it relates to Indigenous communities. 

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 In this week's episode, Stefanie discusses the new American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines regarding head lice.

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This week's episode of "She Really Gets it" is continuing the conversation on racism in public health and getting intersectional with it. We will be having a conversation with Rashaad Banks, public health professional and veteran health educator and trainer.

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In this week's episode, Stefanie asks WTF is Wimpy White Boy Syndrome and what does it have to do with public health?

Here's what I want from you the audience. Question your providers. The relationship between you and your provider is a partnership. If you're a provider, interrogate your education, interrogate your mentors and professors interrogate your textbooks. And if you have more insight on this particular topic please shoot ...

The mission of public health might be disease prevention and health for all. The reality is that it's a world of unpaid internships, preferential hiring practices, and downright racism. In this week's episode, Stefanie sits down with her fellow Drexel alum to discuss, "Why Is Public Health So Racist?" and just how to navigate all white spaces when you are anything but.

"This week's episode is a follow-up to last week where we discussed the influence of the Christian Right. This week we will be speaking with Stefanie's favorite Chaplain to get a better understanding of Christianity and why Evangelicals have such a keen interest in public health. Or do they?"

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