Identifying accurate public health studies with Dr. Mary Schooling (Episode 1)
Making Public Health Personal
English - November 02, 2021 20:33 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHealth & Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this Episode:
While it may be convenient, it is also dangerous to rely on quick social media headlines or secondhand information when making public and personal health decisions. At the same time, medical research studies can seem overwhelmingly complicated and hard to understand, if we can locate them at all.
In this first episode of Making Public Health Personal, we discuss identifying accurate research data and studies for everyday people (who aren’t researchers or physicians). We give practical tips to locate and understand health-related research data, including studies conducted by drug companies themselves. We also discuss the checks and balances the research community has in place to weed out unethical research practices.
Our expert in this episode is Dr. Mary Schooling, Chair of the Department of Environmental, Occupational, and Geospatial Health Sciences at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology, with over 400 academic journal articles published. Her research includes topics that explain patterns of disease and identify new interventions for population health.
The host of Making Public Health Personal is Laura Meoli-Ferrigon, a podcaster looking to help others understand the different types of research studies and the key terms to look for when deciphering good research from clickbait.
Episode Links:
www.Pubmed.gov (Direct source of public health research studies available to all, curated by the National Library of Medicine)
www.Wikipedia.com (Reminder: always check sources on this platform)
www.scholar.google.com (Another direct source of public health research studies available to all)
About Dr. Schooling’s research on salt & cardiovascular disease: https://sph.cuny.edu/life-at-sph/news/2020/10/07/salt-cardiovascular-disease/
Contact & find out more about Dr. Mary Schooling: https://sph.cuny.edu/about/people/faculty/mary-schooling/
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