Everybody Hates Me: Let's Talk About Stigma
98 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago -Hosted by Dr. Carmen Logie, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Equity & Social Justice with Marginalized Populations, and Professor at the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. Supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). This podcast invites a range of weekly guests to talk about all different kinds of stigma. Why does it matter? What does it look like? What can we do about it?Thank you for listening! Follow us on Twitter (@let_stigma) and Instagram (@thestigmapodcast)
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Dr. Angela Kaida: What does it mean to practice allyship in contexts of stigma?
September 04, 2023 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBDr. Angela Kaida is a Simon Fraser University Distinguished Professor and the Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute for Gender and Health. Dr. Kaida’s research interests pertain to understanding the impact of expanding access to HIV treatment and prevention services on sexual and reproductive intentions, behaviours, and outcomes of HIV-affected individuals and couples in high HIV prevalence global settings and in Canada. You can read some of her w...
Kim Canady on HIV-related stigma: Make the uncomfortable, comfortable
June 30, 2023 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBKim Canady is an HIV/AIDS activist, advocate, mother, and wife born with HIV. Throughout her adolescence, Kimberly became a member of many HIV/AIDS awareness organizations. These organizations include Theo, Heat, UNICEF, YWCHAC, co-chair of YACAC, spokesmodel for New York State Department of Health campaign HIVSTOPSWITHME, and Love Heals. As an African American woman born and raised in Brooklyn, Kimberly faced having to combat the ignorance and stigma that surround HIV and AIDS within her co...
Bridgette Picou: Challenge HIV stigma-Educate Yourself and Get Tested!
March 31, 2023 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBBridgette Picou is a nurse with several years of HIV and infectious disease experience and an avid blogger with The Well Project. She also writes a guest column with Positively Aware Magazine called "Being Bridgette." In addition to her LVN license, Bridgette has been certified as an AIDS Care Nurse (ACLPN) and received the 2022 Patrick Kenny Certified Nurse of the year award. Serving as the President of the Greater Palm Springs Chapter of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC), it's ...
Ciarra "Ci Ci" Covin on HIV Stigma: People living with HIV are still human, with the same desires
March 07, 2023 02:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBCiarra “Ci Ci” Covin is a mother, advocate, and lover of all human beings. Diagnosed with HIV at the age of 20, Ci Ci has curated a life of HIV and mental advocacy through both her lived experience and education. Ci Ci is program manager at The Well Project, past Ambassador for the CDC’s Let’s Stop HIV Together Campaign, and Owner of Healing Is Voluntary, LLC. In these roles, Ci Ci has been able to connect with other leaders from around the world to further the mission of destigmatizing HIV ...
Chelsea Wald on Sanitation Stigma: Potty Talk with the Author of 'Pipe Dreams'
February 25, 2023 19:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBChelsea Wald has repeatedly plunged into the topic of toilets since 2013, when editors first approached her to write about the latent potential in our stagnating infrastructure. Since then she has traveled to Italy, South Africa, Indonesia, and Haiti, as well as throughout the Netherlands and the United States, in search of the past and future of toilet systems. With a degree in astronomy from Columbia University and a master’s in journalism from Indiana University, Chelsea has more than fif...
Lezlie Lowe on Sanitation Stigma: "We are taught that toilets are funny or toilets are gross"
February 25, 2023 19:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBLezlie Lowe began her freelance radio, newspaper, and magazine career in 1996. She has penned and produced pieces on urban rats, roadkill cemeteries and, prominently, public toilets. Lowe has been a finalist and multiple winner at the Radio Television Digital News Association Awards, the Atlantic Journalism Awards, and the Canadian Association of Journalists Awards, and has taught journalism at the University of King's College since 2003. Her first book, No Place To Go: How Public Toilets Fa...
Dr. Caetano Dorea on Sanitation Stigma: It's More Than Just a Toilet
January 21, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBDr. Caetano Dorea is a Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, at the University of Victoria. His interests and expertise are at the crossroads of environmental and public health engineering. You can learn more about his Public Health & Environmental Engineering (PH2E) Lab research here, his publications here, and follow him on Twitter here. We talk about the stigma around sanitation-and in particular 'shit'-and the 'flush and forget' culture. Caetano discusses the stigma experienced b...
Dr. David Brennan: GB2M Stigma, HIV, Blood Donation Bans, Monkeypox and Pride
June 07, 2022 17:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBProfessor David J. Brennan is the Associate Dean, Research at Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. He is the founder and director of the CRUISElab, an interdisciplinary, community-based social work research lab dedicated to addressing the sexual, mental, physical, and emotional health of gay, bisexual, two-spirit, cis- and trans-gender men who have sex with other men (GB2M). Dr. Brennan has been directly involved in the HIV epidemic since 1983 in many social work r...
Dr. Steffanie Strathdee: Stigma and why phage therapy was forgotten
April 18, 2022 22:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBDr. Steffanie Strathdee is Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences and Harold Simon Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She co-directs UCSD’s new center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH), Global Health Institute and the International Core of UCSD’s Center for AIDS Research. An infectious disease epidemiologist, she has spent the last two decades focusing on HIV prevention in marginalized...
Dr. Steffanie Strathdee: Stigma and why phage therapy was forgotten
April 18, 2022 22:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBDr. Steffanie Strathdee is Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences and Harold Simon Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She co-directs UCSD’s new center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH), Global Health Institute and the International Core of UCSD’s Center for AIDS Research. An infectious disease epidemiologist, she has spent the last two decades focusing on HIV prevention in marginalized...
Jessica Lynn Whitbread: Challenge stigma & #LovePositiveWomen
January 27, 2022 21:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBAs a community organizer, artist, activist, academic and at times a “professional”, Jessica Lynn Whitbread is interested in doing work that creates spaces for dialogue about social justice and social change. She does this through public installations, consciousness raising, workshop development and facilitation, engaging in direct action, policy review, research and any other method that allows a variety of stakeholders to engage in a diversity of ways. She believes that acts of kindness are...
Sabby Duthie & John E. Johnson: Stigma & Elder Abuse
September 30, 2021 21:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBSabby Duthie and John E. Johnson are authors of 'Elder Abuse: You have a role to play'. This first-of-its-kind book undertakes the uncomfortable conversation that elder abuse is widespread and very real. John E. Johnson, a retired lawyer, and Sabby Duthie, a former retirement-home owner, share real stories from families of different generations and backgrounds. In this podcast, we discuss elder abuse and how stigma toward the elderly can fuel elder abuse and create a lack of awareness surr...
Sabby Duthie & John E. Johnson: Stigma & Elder Abuse
September 30, 2021 21:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBSabby Duthie and John E. Johnson are authors of 'Elder Abuse: You have a role to play'. This first-of-its-kind book undertakes the uncomfortable conversation that elder abuse is widespread and very real. John E. Johnson, a retired lawyer, and Sabby Duthie, a former retirement-home owner, share real stories from families of different generations and backgrounds. In this podcast, we discuss elder abuse and how stigma toward the elderly can fuel elder abuse and create a lack of awareness surr...
Annie Philpott: Stigma, Sex and the Pleasure Revolution
September 11, 2021 18:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBAnnie Philpott is a public health professional, pleasure propagandist and ‘guerrilla girl’ of HIV prevention. She founded The Pleasure Project in 2004, an international education and advocacy organization working to eroticize safer sex. The Pleasure Project builds bridges between the public health world and the pleasure and sex industry, and help to develop the evidence base for a sex-positive and pleasure-based approach to sexual health and rights. You can read more about her work here and...
Annie Philpott: Stigma, Sex and the Pleasure Revolution
September 11, 2021 18:00 - 50 minutes - 34.9 MBAnnie Philpott is a public health professional, pleasure propagandist and ‘guerrilla girl’ of HIV prevention. She founded The Pleasure Project in 2004, an international education and advocacy organization working to eroticize safer sex. The Pleasure Project builds bridges between the public health world and the pleasure and sex industry, and help to develop the evidence base for a sex-positive and pleasure-based approach to sexual health and rights. You can read more about her work here and...
Dr. Keosha Bond: Gendered Racism & Changing the Narrative
August 30, 2021 03:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBDr. Keosha T. Bond is an Assistant Medical Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine at the CUNY School of Medicine. She is a trained behavioral scientist and sexual health educator who has centered her work on the complex intersections of race, sexuality, social justice, and health equity among individuals of marginalized genders. You can learn more about her research here, and follow her on twitter here. We talk about Keosha's work on the intersection of gender ...
Dr. Steve Bell: Seek to be surprised
July 27, 2021 14:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBAssociate Professor Steve Bell is a Principal Research Fellow in the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Queensland. He is an applied health and social researcher with 20 years’ experience of qualitative, participatory and ethnographic research on sexual, reproductive and maternal health, HIV and other infectious diseases. He is currently working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in remote, regional and urban settings across Australia, and excluded and...
Calvin Hudson Hwang: Anti-Asian Racism & COVID-19
July 17, 2021 15:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBCalvin Hudson Hwang is an award winning Taiwanese Canadian director, producer and founder of SUPRE. SUPRE aims to empower underpowered voices and present often unheard points-of-view with insight, vulnerability and authenticity. They find unconventional ways to produce films to make them openly accessible for everyone to watch. Calvin's directorial work includes What Flowers They Bloom (2021), Miracle, Baby (2019), Exiting Hell Bar (2017), My Best Dress (2013), and Vestiaire (2011). You ca...
Dr. Laura Ferguson: Dismantling hierarchies of power & knowledge
July 04, 2021 17:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBLaura Ferguson is an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the University of Southern California, the director of the Program on Global Health & Human Rights and the director of research at the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. Her research focuses on understanding and addressing health system and societal factors affecting health and the uptake of health services, as well as how attention to human rights can improve health outcomes. She collaborates with a range of Uni...
Elder Valerie Nicholson: We are the voices behind the numbers
June 06, 2021 01:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MBElder Valerie Nicholson, of Mi’kmaq, Haida, Gypsy and English descent, is a storyteller and researcher, an advocate and an artivist. She works at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS as a co-principal investigator and community-based researcher, and brings her knowledge back to her communities. She is an HIV Older for the Weaving Our Wisdom (WOW) study, and actively works with the Canadian Coalition to Reform the Criminalization of HIV and the Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network. She is a...
Dr. Ayden Scheim: Finding your place to plug in to challenge stigma
May 28, 2021 21:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBDr. Ayden Scheim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health. He is also an Affiliate Scientist in the Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation and Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Western University. He studies the impacts of social, policy, and healthcare environments on the health of stigmatized popul...
Dr. Nitika Pant Pai: The elephant in the room was stigma
May 09, 2021 16:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBDr Nitika Pant Pai is Associate Professor at McGill University’s Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Epidemiology and a Physician Scientist at the MUHC Research Institute. She has been working in diagnostics for 20 years in the United States, Canada, South Africa, and India, with a focus on point of care diagnostics for HIV, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, HPV, and bacterial sexually transmitted infections. She develops and incorporates digital innovations, implementation science, Bayesia...
Dr. Amrita Daftary: Stigma, tuberculosis & 'nothing about us, without us!'
April 29, 2021 23:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBDr. Amrita Daftary is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at York University and a social and behavioural global health researcher. Dr. Daftary examines health care seeking and caregiving practices for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. Her projects are based in a number of global settings, particularly South Africa, India, and Canada. Learn more about her research here and you can follow her on Twitter. Dr. Daftary discusses TB and how this preventable and curable illness still affects more t...
Dr. Amrita Daftary: Stigma, tuberculosis & 'nothing about us, without us!'
April 29, 2021 23:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBDr. Amrita Daftary is an Assistant Professor of Global Health at York University and a social and behavioural global health researcher. Dr. Daftary examines health care seeking and caregiving practices for tuberculosis (TB) and HIV. Her projects are based in a number of global settings, particularly South Africa, India, and Canada. Learn more about her research here and you can follow her on Twitter. Dr. Daftary discusses TB and how this preventable and curable illness still affects more t...
Dr. Patrick Sullivan: Dialing in from a small town- PrEP, HIV and sexual stigma
April 15, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBDr. Patrick Sullivan, Professor of Epidemiology at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, has spent two decades investigating HIV. He implements innovative technology – mobile phones, tablets, text messaging, and online tools – into HIV and AIDS care and research. Find out more about Patrick's work at PRISM Health and learn more about his research here. You can find Patrick on Twitter as well as PRISM, @EmoryCFAR, @EmoryEPI, and @EmoryRollins. In this podcast, Patrick shares his work ad...
Dr. Patrick Sullivan: Dialing in from a small town- PrEP, HIV and sexual stigma
April 15, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBDr. Patrick Sullivan, Professor of Epidemiology at Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health, has spent two decades investigating HIV. He implements innovative technology – mobile phones, tablets, text messaging, and online tools – into HIV and AIDS care and research. Find out more about Patrick's work at PRISM Health and learn more about his research here. You can find Patrick on Twitter as well as PRISM, @EmoryCFAR, @EmoryEPI, and @EmoryRollins. In this podcast, Patrick shares his work ad...
Dr. Julie Pulerwitz: We need more than information to address stigma
April 01, 2021 19:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBDr. Julie Pulerwitz is the director of the Population Council’s HIV and AIDS program, where she provides leadership for a portfolio of research that generates evidence to inform HIV programs and policies around the world. Among her contributions, Dr. Pulerwitz is known for her conceptual and methodological work developing tools to measure power in sexual relationships (the SRPS), and gender norms / attitudes (the GEM Scale). The measures have led to a body of work documenting the global sali...
Dr. Chris Beyrer: Nobody should be excluded from our compassion
March 25, 2021 22:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBChris Beyrer MD, MPH, is the Desmond M. Tutu Professor of Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, Health, Behavior and Society, and Nursing. He serves as Director of Johns Hopkins Training Program in HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Science and as Founding Director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He is the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Cent...
Dr. Daniel Buchman: Stigma and the importance of believing people
March 15, 2021 01:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBDr. Daniel Buchman is a Bioethicist and Independent Scientist in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, a member of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, and an Affiliate Scientist in the Krembil Research Institute at the University Health Network. You can follow him on Twitter here and learn more about his work here. Daniel shares his journey to ...
Dr. Daniel Buchman: Stigma and the importance of believing people
March 15, 2021 01:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBDr. Daniel Buchman is a Bioethicist and Independent Scientist in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at CAMH. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, a member of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, and an Affiliate Scientist in the Krembil Research Institute at the University Health Network. You can follow him on Twitter here and learn more about his work here. Daniel shares his journey to ...
Dr. Kenneth Mayer: In it from the beginning to promote LGBT health
March 03, 2021 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBDr. Kenneth Mayer is Medical Research Director and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School; a Professor, Department of Global Health and Population at Harvard School of Public Health; and an Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of the International AIDS Society. Find out more about Dr. Mayer's work here. In this podcast we talk about the impact of non-affirming environments on health outcomes among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT...
Dr. Charlotte Loppie: Understanding the roots of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism
February 21, 2021 23:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBDr. Charlotte Loppie is a Mi’kmaq/French Acadian scholar. She is a Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy and the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Human and Social Development. Dr. Loppie’s guiding principle is to be of service to Indigenous communities, collectives and organizations. To that end, she has made it her life’s work to bring Indigenous peoples into research projects that touch their lives. We discuss the fallacy of racial categories and hierarchies ...
Dr. Charlotte Loppie: Understanding the roots of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism
February 21, 2021 23:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBDr. Charlotte Loppie is a Mi’kmaq/French Acadian scholar. She is a Professor in the School of Public Health and Social Policy and the Associate Dean Research in the Faculty of Human and Social Development. Dr. Loppie’s guiding principle is to be of service to Indigenous communities, collectives and organizations. To that end, she has made it her life’s work to bring Indigenous peoples into research projects that touch their lives. We discuss the fallacy of racial categories and hierarchies ...
Ina Park: Ever had an STI? Congratulations, it means you are human!
February 16, 2021 23:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBDr. Ina Park is an associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, Medical Consultant at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, and Medical Director of the California Prevention Training Center. Check out her new book Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs to learn the untold stories of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). You can follow her on Twitter. ...
Ina Park: Ever had an STI? Congratulations, it means you are human!
February 16, 2021 23:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBDr. Ina Park is an associate professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, Medical Consultant at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, and Medical Director of the California Prevention Training Center. Check out her new book Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs to learn the untold stories of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). You can follow her on Twitter. ...
Gareth Henry: Moving beyond stigma to lift each other up
February 09, 2021 23:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBGareth Henry is the Executive Director of the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) with leadership roles in the non-profit and HIV sectors for almost twenty years. He has worked at Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG), The 519 Church Street Community Centre and the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation (PWA). Gareth has also served as Board Chair at Africans in Partnership Against AIDS (APAA) for more than six years. He also volunteers with Rainbow Railroad, a C...
Gareth Henry: Moving beyond stigma to lift each other up
February 09, 2021 23:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBGareth Henry is the Executive Director of the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (Black CAP) with leadership roles in the non-profit and HIV sectors for almost twenty years. He has worked at Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG), The 519 Church Street Community Centre and the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation (PWA). Gareth has also served as Board Chair at Africans in Partnership Against AIDS (APAA) for more than six years. He also volunteers with Rainbow Railroad, a C...
Dr. Marija Pantelic: Challenging stigma with radical kindness
February 01, 2021 23:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBDr. Marija Pantelic is a Lecturer in Public Health at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). Marija is an associate member of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University; member of the International Scientific Advisory Board for the AIDS Impact Conference; and member of the Technical Working Group of the Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination. Marija is passionate about maximising the utility of research for evidence-based...
Dr. Marija Pantelic: Challenging stigma with radical kindness
February 01, 2021 23:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBDr. Marija Pantelic is a Lecturer in Public Health at Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). Marija is an associate member of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University; member of the International Scientific Advisory Board for the AIDS Impact Conference; and member of the Technical Working Group of the Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination. Marija is passionate about maximising the utility of research for evidence-based...
Marvelous Muchenje: HIV stigma and A.I.D.S. (Am I Doing Something?)
January 16, 2021 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBMarvelous Muchenje is a PhD student at the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto and the Manager, Community Relations and Communications at ViiV Healthcare Canada. With a professional and activist background in sexual and reproductive rights, Marvelous is passionate about seeking social justice in all its forms by changing systems of oppression through collective action. An affirming HIV-positive Black woman, Marvelous has made it her mission to spread love an...
Dr. Judith Auerbach: Social Sciences & Disciplinary Stigma
January 03, 2021 20:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBDr. Judith Auerbach is an independent science, policy consultant, and Professor in the School of Medicine at UCSF. She recently served as Vice President, Research & Evaluation at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, where she was responsible for developing, leading, and managing research and evaluation-related activities. Dr. Auerbach has taught, presented, and published widely in the areas of HIV/AIDS, social science and public policy, and sex and gender. You can find more about her researc...
Dr. Judith Auerbach: Social Sciences & Disciplinary Stigma
January 03, 2021 20:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBDr. Judith Auerbach is an independent science, policy consultant, and Professor in the School of Medicine at UCSF. She recently served as Vice President, Research & Evaluation at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, where she was responsible for developing, leading, and managing research and evaluation-related activities. Dr. Auerbach has taught, presented, and published widely in the areas of HIV/AIDS, social science and public policy, and sex and gender. You can find more about her researc...
Dr. Emily Mendenhall: Stigma, Syndemics and Diabetes
December 23, 2020 17:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBDr. Emily Mendenhall is the Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her books, Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV (2019, Cornell) and Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women (2012, Routledge), have received wide acclaim. You can learn more about her work here and here, rea...
Changing the world by linking arms: Dr. Bernice Pescosolido on mental health stigma
December 23, 2020 17:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MBDr. Bernice A. Pescosolido is distinguished professor of Sociology at Indiana University and director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. Pescosolido's research agenda addresses how social networks connect individuals to their communities and to institutional structures, providing the "wires" through which peoples attitudes and actions are influenced. This agenda encompasses three basic areas: health care services, stigma, and suicide research. You can learn more a...
Dr. Mark Tyndall: Drug use stigma & opiod vending machines
December 10, 2020 01:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBEpidemiologist, physician and public health expert Dr. Mark Tyndall has dedicated his career to studying HIV, poverty, and drug use in multiple places around the world, starting with Nairobi, and now in Vancouver. An early advocate for harm reduction programs, Mark was at the forefront of North America’s first legally sanctioned supervised injection facility, INSITE, established in Vancouver in 2003. A proponent of evidence-based public health policy and interventions, Mark's work advocates...
Dr. Millicent Atujuna and Youth Living with HIV from the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation: Celebrating World AIDS Day & Challenging HIV Stigma
November 28, 2020 22:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBDr. Millicent Atujuna is a sociologist/population scientist with a focus on issues relating to social and behavioral aspects of health. Currently working as a social behavioral scientist at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, Millicent’s current research interests are on understanding the macro and micro factors that drive health-seeking behavior as well as understanding how individuals negotiate such dynamics. Millicent also has a particular interest in issues relating to adolescent health ...
Dr. Susan Sherman: Stigma and the Importance of Looking People in the Eye
November 22, 2020 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBDr. Susan Sherman is a Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on improving the health of marginalized populations, particularly that of people who use drugs and sex workers. Dr. Sherman is interested in the structural drivers of health and risk. You can learn more about the Sparc Center that she co-founded, and find out more about her research here. Susan discusses stigma toward dru...
Dr. Susan Sherman: Stigma toward sex work, drug use, and the importance of looking people in the eye
November 22, 2020 23:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBDr. Susan Sherman is a Professor in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on improving the health of marginalized populations, particularly that of people who use drugs and sex workers. Dr. Sherman is interested in the structural drivers of health and risk. You can learn more about the Sparc Center that she co-founded, and find out more about her research here. Susan discusses stigma toward dru...
Dr. Dani Barrington: Water, Sanitation, and Menstruation Stigma
November 13, 2020 00:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBDr. Dani Barrington is a Lecturer in the School of Population and Global Health at The University of Western Australia and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is also a Visiting Lecturer in Water, Sanitation and Health within the School of Civil Engineering at The University of Leeds and an Honorary Fellow within the School of Public Health at The University of Queensland. You can follow her on Twitter and learn more about her research. In this podcast Dr. Barrington shares the im...
Dr. Andrea Gruneir and Jim Mann: Challenging stigma associated with aging and dementia
November 06, 2020 02:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBDr. Andrea Gruneir is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta. She is an epidemiologist and her research focuses on the health care needs of older adults, in particular as related to the use of home and long-term care services. Find more about her research here and you can follow her on Twitter here. Jim Mann was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in February 2007 at the age of 58. Since that time, he has been active in the community breaking down ste...