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Exploring Health from the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University brings world-renowned scholars, scientists, and journalists together with student leaders to redefine the construct of health and well-being.

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Mindfulness in Schools: Improving Children’s Mental Health and Learning

Mindfulness education can reduce stress and aid learning in middle and high schools, and may also help lessen the psychological impact of Covid – but it can be costly to implement.

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COVID Chronicles | Quarantined Happiness: The Pandemic’s Effects on Young Adults & Teens

In this episode, host Matt Guerette aims to set the stage on the conversation around mental health and the effects of the pandemic on society’s most fragile, yet influential group – the youth.

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Health Beyond the Blog: A rough week for mask mandates

Vix's podcast "Today, Explained" takes up the changes to federal mask policies.

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Dr. Andrew Miller: Part 2 – Inflammation and Depression

May 5, 2022
Charles Raison
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In this Part 2 episode with Dr. Andrew H. Miller, we explore why humans have an inflammatory bias, why the link between inflammation and depression likely enhanced survival and reproduction across human evolution and why the absence of co-evolved bacteria, viruses and worms in the modern world is making both inflammation and depression worse.

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COVID Chronicles | The NeuroTech Talk: Neurotechnology & the Impacts of COVID-19

In this episode, host JuanMartin Abreu-Melon interviews four people from different walks of life and different stages in their neurotechnology careers to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted their work as scholars and researchers – as well as the future of the field.

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Down Syndrome: The Effects of an Extra 21st Chromosome

The chromosomal defect known as Down syndrome may have made people who carry it more vulnerable to the worst effects of Covid-19.

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Health Beyond the Blog: Period. End of Sentence

In the documentary "Period. End of Sentence," women in a rural Indian village combat menstruation stigma by learning to make and distribute their own sanitary pads, against male opposition.

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COVID Chronicles | College Campus Hookup Culture During a Pandemic

In this episode, host Rachel Broun unpacks the misconceptions of hookup culture on college campuses, especially at Emory.

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Health Beyond The Blog: NATAL, the podcast

Photo by Tembinkosi Sikupela on Unsplash (rights-free) The racial disparities in pregnancy and birthing experiences in the US is an urgent and important issue, one that needs to be explored beyond the statistics and numbers. NATAL, a narrative podcast about…

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Atlanta: “The Public Health Capital of The World”

Thanks to the presence of the CDC and other agencies, Atlanta is the capital of public health in America – but that position obscures how racism and inequality affected the evolution of public health.

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