Epidemiology Counts from the Society for Epidemiologic Research
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 42 – Wildfires
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The area of land affected by wildfires has increased annually at a more rapid pace than the actual number of wildfires. With climate change comes an i...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 41 – Eating Disorders
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating, are very common and some of the most complicated psychiatric disorders t...
SER 2023 Live Podcast Recording: Busting Epi Myths
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The SER 2023 conference in Portland, Oregon was the site of the first ever live recording of the Epidemiology Counts podcast with an audience! Host Br...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 40 – Disasters & Risk Assessment
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The recent train derailment in East Palestine (apologies for host Bryan James’ mispronunciation in the Intro), Ohio raised major concerns over the r...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 39 – Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Epi Counts, host Bryan James talks to Maria Glymour, the incoming chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Boston University Scho...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 38 – Occupational Epidemiology
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Occupational Epidemiology is one of the oldest and most salient areas in Epidemiology. People need to work, so understanding the aspects of the work e...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 37 – Epidemiology vs. Population Health: Two sides of the same coin?
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Population Health Sciences and Epidemiology are thought about as different from one another by some, and largely overlapping by others. Depending on w...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 36 – Trans Health
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Trans health is a growing area in public health. This is largely due to the growing number of individuals who feel comfortable expressing gender ident...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 35 – The Microbiome: our gut, our health
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know trillions of microorganisms such as bacteria, virus, and fungi are living inside of your body right now? The microbiome can be described ...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 34 – Omicron & transition to endemic COVID-19
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The most recent stage of the COVID-19 pandemic has been defined by the surge of the Omicron variant, a version of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is highly ...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 33 – Social Media, Youth Mental Health
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Social media is a major part of many people’s day to day lives, including children. Social media can connect young people to other people, groups, i...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 32 – Built environment: Green Space
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode on how the built environment of our cities and towns affects our health, we discuss how living near green spaces and natural env...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 31 – Sports Injury
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sports is life. Fans have a deep devotion to their preferred teams from their alma maters or home towns. Fans spend shocking amounts of time discussin...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 30 – The Built Environment: walking and biking
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our health is very much shaped by the structure of the spaces around us, what we often refer to as our built environment. The concept of the built env...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 29 – Residential Segregation & Redlining
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Health in America is closely tied to where we live. Higher rates of preventable health conditions are concentrated in high-poverty neighborhoods that ...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 28 – Breakthrough COVID-19 & Delta
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The arrival of COVID-19 vaccines that are highly effective against infection and severe disease in late 2020 appeared to be the silver bullet that wou...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 27 – Perinatal Epidemiology
17 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What happens in pregnancy and the early stages of infancy can have a profound impact on child and adolescent development, and may even affect the heal...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 26 – Optimism
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can a positive outlook on life actually have a direct effect on our health? Optimism appears to be linked to better health and the ability to cope wit...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 25 – Racialized Policing
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By nearly any metric, Black and brown Americans are disproportionately policed, arrested, convicted, and incarcerated compared to white Americans. One...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 24 – “Epidemiology podcast crossover”
14 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In honor of the Society for Epidemiologic Research 2020 Meeting, the hosts of four epidemiology podcasts came together to record the first ever “cro...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 23 – “Coronavirus – Testing”
07 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
COVID-19 is surging as the United States heads into winter, with 100,000 new cases reported in a single day for the first time on the day of this podc...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 22 – “Maternal Mortality”
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maternal mortality is a key indicator of population health. While the leading causes of maternal death vary from place to place, most of these deaths ...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 21 – “Climate Change”
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hurricane and fire seasons are affecting communities across the US and globally. Over 5 million acres have burned in the Western US. Smoke from these ...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 20 – “Sleep”
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sleep is essential for wellbeing and overall health. We spend up to a third of our lives asleep and the general state of “sleep health” is an im...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 19 – “Cell Phones”
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cell phones outnumber people globally and they have become an important conduit through which we interact with our world, both personally and professi...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 18 – “Coronavirus Q&A”
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our infectious disease epidemiology experts, Justin Lessler from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Michael Mina from the Harvard Sch...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 17 – “Coronavirus – Reopening the US”
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Drs. Justin Lessler from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Michael Mina from the Harvard School of Public Heath are back for a fourt...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 16 – “Depression and Anxiety”
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Depression and anxiety disorders remain among the most common and destabilizing health conditions worldwide. As the COVID-19 epidemic progresses, ment...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 15 – “Coronavirus (Update)”
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The coronavirus outbreak is now a global pandemic and the US is ground zero for the COVID-19 crisis. Drs. Justin Lessler from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 14 – “Infertility”
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Infertility is increasingly common, and it is likely you know someone who has experienced infertility or may have experienced this yourself. Given tha...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 13 – “Coronavirus (Follow-up)”
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty days after releasing episode 12 "Coronavirus", host Bryan James follows up with two experts in infectious disease epidemiology, Dr. Justin Less...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 12 – “Coronavirus”
05 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The novel coronavirus outbreak originating in Wuhan, China has sickened tens of thousands of people and the number of cases is growing as of this reco...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 11 “Screentime”
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Screen time has been blamed for health issues ranging from sleep disturbances, to depression, and obesity. But how much do we actually know about how ...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 10 “Exercise”
19 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As the new year approaches, many people (epidemiologists included!) will resolve to begin exercising more. Making a renewed commitment to exercise is ...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 9 “Opioids”
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We are in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. More American lives have been lost to drug overdoses than were lost either at the height of the AI...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 8 “Gun Violence”
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gun violence is endemic in the United States. It’s become a politically polarized topic and the discourse, which tends to focus on mass shootings, i...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 7 “Vaping”
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While cigarette smoking has declined in the US, vaping has increased dramatically—especially among younger Americans. While vaping may be less harmf...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 6 “Influenza”
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Did you get your flu shot? Employers and other institutions that have a stake in our health, wellbeing and productivity have decided the flu shot is a...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 5 “Consequential Epidemiology”
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do we know what’s really making us sick? And how to do we make it better? If we read the newspaper, we might think it’s whether we follow a ...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 4 “Sweeteners”
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know there are 39 grams of sugar in a standard can of soda? That’s approximately equal to consuming 10 sugar cubes in one sitting! In the fo...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 3 “Plastics and Public Health”
02 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode, Matt Fox and Anna Pollack interview Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP, professor at NYU Langone Health, on plastics. In this episode, w...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 2 “Community Immunity”
22 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode, Matt Fox, Justin Lessler and Jennifer Ahern discuss the concept of herd immunity or community immunity. What is it? What has i...
Epidemiology Counts – Episode 1 “Why should I trust that new health study?”
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
 Welcome to Epidemiology Counts from the Society for Epidemiologic Research! Each episode delves into a particular disease or health condition or...