Cateogry: Podcast

The Importance of Community Health Workers

The Importance of Community Health Workers

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Cortlen Yarbrough, a community health worker. Yarbrough goes over what community health workers do and their importance in the healthcare system. He also talks about his experiences as a community health worker and what he would do...
The Importance of Community Health Workers

Riding the Bus

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Natasha Dupee, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Washington, D.C. Dupee talks about “riding the bus,” which is a view into the impact of social and economic segregation. The two talk about the health impacts of...
The Importance of Community Health Workers

Explaining the Vaccine

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Khadijah Tribble to talk about the coronavirus vaccine. The two talk about trusted healthcare information and vaccine skepticism in the black community. Dr. Lisa dispels skepticism about the vaccine and explains how the vaccine was...
The Importance of Community Health Workers

Sex Trafficking

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Charlynn Robertson, who tells her story about being involved in sex trafficking and how she escaped her predators. Robertson breaks down the process predators use to manipulate people and how healthcare workers can approach people...
The Importance of Community Health Workers

Dr. Fauci

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Fauci explains how the coronavirus vaccine works in the body and provides explanations for how the vaccine was completed so quickly. Fauci...
The Importance of Community Health Workers

Dehumanized

Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Greg Millet, vice president of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Millet talks about an encounter he had with discrimination in medicine and gives insight into his experience. He then talks about the racial discrepancies in...