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Rural Pharmacy, Reimagined: Expanding Care Access with Mylo Wells (opens the original)
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What happens when the community pharmacy becomes a front door to healthcare? In this episode of Plugged In To Public Health, Lauren talks with Mylo Wells, PharmD, owner of Wells Hometown Drug and Wells Hometown Clinic in southeast Iowa. After graduating from the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy in 2018, Mylo opened his first independent pharmacy in Bloomfield just months later. He has since expanded to a second pharmacy location and, in November 2025, opened Iowa's first pharmacist-led wal
How Do We Know the Air Is Safe? (opens the original)
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What does it actually mean when regulators say a proposed power plant is expected to meet air-quality standards? In this episode of Plugged In To Public Health, Lauren talks with Dr. Patrick O’Shaughnessy, professor in the University of Iowa College of Public Health’s Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, about the proposed Morgan Valley Energy Center near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the broader public health questions surrounding energy production and air pollution. Using the propose
Following your curiosity, finding your path (opens the original)
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In this episode of Plugged In To Public Health, Lauren sits down with Harry Bui, a Master of Public Health student in epidemiology at the University of Iowa, to talk about finding your path in public health and why that path does not have to be linear. Harry shares how he began college interested in science education and medicine before an introductory public health course shifted the way he thought about health and healthcare. He discusses his transition into epidemiology, his interest in clini
What an MPH Taught Me: Reflections on Graduate School with Student Host Raj (opens the original)
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In this episode of Plugged In To Public Health, Lauren sits down with former podcast host and recent University of Iowa MPH graduate Prithvi Raj Daliboyina ("Raj") to reflect on his time in the College of Public Health. Before coming to Iowa, Raj completed physician training in India. During his MPH in Epidemiology, he expanded that clinical perspective through coursework and projects in epidemiology, biostatistics, qualitative research, data analysis, and healthcare quality improvement. Raj dis
Meeting Communities Where They Are: Zuli Garcia and Knock and Drop Iowa (opens the original)
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What does it look like to build public health programs around what a community actually needs? In this episode of Plugged into Public Health, Lauren talks with Zuli Garcia, founder and president of Knock and Drop Iowa. The organization began in Zuli’s garage during the COVID-19 pandemic as a culturally specific Latino food pantry and has since grown into a multicultural organization serving hundreds of Iowa households each week. Zuli shares why culturally appropriate food matters, how Knock and
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