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Complicating The Narrative

Salma Abdalla

In this podcast, hosted by Dr. Salma Abdalla—Assistant Professor and Director of the Healthier Futures Lab at Washington University in St. Louis—we provide rigorous, evidence-based analysis of complex population health challenges. In a time of social, economic, and political upheaval—marked by eroding public trust, polarized narratives, and growing uncertainty—this podcast aims to challenge oversi... more

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How do public health institutions experiencing declining public trust go about becoming trustworthy again?

Erin O'Malley is the Executive Director of the Coalition for Trust in Health and Science, a coalition of more than 90 organizations working to... more

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By some estimates, hundreds of thousands of Americans die each year who would still be alive if the United States had the mortality rates of other wealthy countries. What makes this even more unsettling is that it wasn't always this way. In the mid-t... more

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This is a Purple Public Health Project episode.

Dr. Itai Bavli is a Research Associate and lecturer at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia, as well as the author of the Substack When Public Health Goe... more

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Why does the US spend more on healthcare than other high-income countries and still have lower life expectancy?

Dr. Jose Francisco Figueroa is an Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, A... more

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This is a revisit of an episode originally published in September 2025.

How can we capture complex social phenomena impacting health in research?

Dr. Maria Glymour, Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University School o... more

How can we support people age safely and with dignity in their own homes?

Dr. Susy Stark, is a Professor at the Washington University in St Louis School of Public Health. As an occupational therapist and community-based researcher, her work focuses ... more

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How does research actually shape policy and when is evidence "good enough" to act on?

In this episode, Salma Abdalla is joined by Dr Kathryn Backholer, Professor of Public Health Policy and co-director of the Global Centre for Preventive Health and ... more

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Does public health belong to people with a specific perspective, or is it—as the term implies—for the public at large?

Today’s episode is different. Dean Sandro Galea, Dean and Distinguished Professor at WashU School of Public Health, returns to the... more

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