Thoughts and writings from Dr. Green Our episode on Physical Therapy featured Dr. Hadiya Green. This is our page to provide resources on physical therapy issues. In addition to being an active practitioner, Hadiya also writes about various aspects of physical therapy. She considers issues for the therapy professional as well as its use as … Resources on Physical Therapy Issues
Throughout our seasons we often focus on health issues. We are especially interested in racial disparities in healthcare. In this episode, Physical Therapy: Promoting Wellness, we interview Dr. Hadiya Green. Dr. Green has 17+ years of experience as a physical therapist and she appears in print and on the air. You can read more of … Physical Therapy: Promoting Wellness
Dr. Yolandra Gomez Toya’s episode on COVID in the Native American community recently posted. As usual, we are posting Resources About Native American Allies as a supplement to the podcast episode. As Yolandra mentions, understanding Native American identity is a complex undertaking. In the first instance, there are over 500 tribal nations in the United … Resources About Native American Allies
This season we are including episodes about our allies within BIPOC. Aida Pacheco’s episode on Latinos was the first in the series. Now, we turn our attention to the Native American community and talk about how COVID-19 hit some of the tribal groups. Our guest is Dr. Yolandra Gomez Toya, class of ’88 who is … Learning Our Native American Allies
In this episode: Black Veterans and Military Culture we feature Colonel Christy (and Doctor) and Commander Steigman share their experience in the service. Dr. Christy works on reproductive health at the Veteran’s Administration and Cdr. Steigman is in the reserves. Over the past year many stories about veterans are appearing in the media. A few … Black Veterans and Military Culture
Recently our alums, Katrina Peters and Deborah Jordan spoke in an episode covering pretrial detainees. Reports over the worsening mental health of pretrial detainees in New York’s Rikers Island triggered the episode.. Problems for pretrial detainees and inmates throughout the country exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many inmates died during the pandemic lock downs, as … Resources for Pretrial Detainee Crisis
Hans Hageman of Land to Learn was recently on the podcast. He talked about teaching children how to grow food. Due to the COVID-19 quarantine people really learned how important it is to know where our food comes from. Land to Learn was about to ramp up when the quarantine was imposed. Nonetheless, they found … Resources for School and Urban Farming
Land to Learn Teaches kids about the connection between growing food and wellness Being in quarantine during the pandemic taught us that we should not take our food supply for granted. During the quarantine basic food items were hard to find. As a result we should all be thinking about where our food comes from. … Connecting Children to Growing Food
We recently aired two episodes of our discussion with Dr. Taylor and Dr. Zafonte on the Harvard Study of former NFL players. As is our custom we are providing Resources For NFL Health Study. The full project name is Football Players Health Study at Harvard University. The team published numerous studies, including ones on the … Resources For NFL Health Study
This is part 2 and the Conclusion to Health Study Shows Disparities for Athletes discussion started previously with Dr Herman Taylor and Ross Zafonte. The results of the study attracted media attention throughout the nation. In conclusion, the doctors suggest how the study can help today’s professional players. But, they also hope their findings can … Conclusion to Health Study Shows Disparities for Athletes