HeyJaredPublic Health Epidemiology Conversations
This podcast explores public health careers, epidemiology, and public health entrepreneurship. The episodes features conversations that encourage you to think creatively and use innovation, while also helping you see public health everywhere.
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- Sep 22, 2026
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- Jul 7, 2026
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PHEC 475: Redefining Public Health Together (opens the original)
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What does it actually take to explain public health when the field itself feels like it's under attack? In this special roundtable episode, Dr. Huntley brings together three public health professionals, Dr. Belina Shaw, Jenna Paladino, and Ashley Peterson, for a real time conversation about how they translate their work into language that friends, family, and coworkers can actually understand. From a psychiatrist turned "doctorpreneur" connecting financial stress to physical health, to a healthc
PHEC 474: A National Voice, With Georges C. Benjamin, MD (opens the original)
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What happens when a twist of fate turns an emergency physician into one of the most influential voices in American public health? In this episode, Dr. Huntley talks with Georges C. Benjamin, MD, who has spent the past twenty four years with the American Public Health Association, about the winding path that took him from military medicine, to health commissioner in Washington, D.C., to health secretary in Maryland, and eventually to his role today. Dr. Benjamin shares candid stories along the wa
PHEC 473: Rewriting Who Owns The Data, With Meghan Jernigan (opens the original)
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Meghan Jernigan spent her childhood in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma driving over an hour just to reach the nearest Indian Health Service hospital. That drive shaped everything that came after. Dr. Huntley talks with Meghan, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation, about the unlikely path from a theater degree at Oklahoma State to two decades of work in tribal epidemiology, research, and now federal relations for the Washington State Department of Health. They dig into why storytelling and relationship buildin
PHEC 472: Undoing Decades Of Harm, With David Margolius, MD (opens the original)
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Cleveland's smoking rate was double the national average — and it wasn't an accident. Tobacco companies targeted Black neighborhoods, low-income communities, and youth with free menthol cigarettes as smoking dropped everywhere else. Dr. David Margolius spent years watching the fallout as a primary care physician before taking that fight to Cleveland's Department of Public Health. The result: smoking rates cut nearly in half, lead poisoning down by a third. He and Dr. Huntley talk about what it a
PHEC 471: Public Health Is Everywhere (opens the original)
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A sidewalk. A nine-hour ER wait. Two very different stories, one question: what does "public health" actually mean? Oluoma Eze and Savaiz Siddiqui join Dr. Huntley to unpack the parts of healthcare nobody explains well — the housing, the waiting rooms, the policy decisions made about us, usually without us. Real stories. No jargon. Just a better way to talk about the system that shapes our lives long before we ever see a doctor. Resources ▶️ Join the PHEC Podcast Community ▶️ Visit the PHEC Podc
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