Public Health Episodes
Oct. 23, 2024
Epigenetics: What your Mother or Grand Mother ate could affect your Genes. Talking with Professor Nathaniel Johnson.
Nutrition choices by a mother can have lasting multigenerational impacts.
April 10, 2024
Spillover: Animal Infections and the next Human Pandemic. Talking to author David Quammen.
60% of human disease originated in animals: bats, rodents birds etc. The next pandemic is only a matter of time and a new strain of Avian flu has already infected cows and cats in Texas.
Aug. 9, 2023
California's High Number of Alzheimers Cases: In conversation with Dr. Kumar Rajan, Professor, Rush University Medical Center.
California has the highest number of Alzheimer’s patients in the US. The incidence is an increasing as the Baby Boom generation ages. Lifestyle and demographics plays a big role as regards who is likely to develop Alzheimer’…
May 26, 2023
Del Seymour founder of Code Tenderloin talks to Jim Herlihy
Breaking the cycle of drug addiction in the Tenderloin and going on to help others to overcome substance dependence.
May 17, 2023
A conversation about Prevention, Intervention and Harm Reduction: a crisis in San Francisco, with Leandro Gonzales.
Confronting the Fentanyl crisis on the streets of San Francisco.