Public Health is Essential Podcast

This podcast is a place for public health professionals, students, or anybody that just wants to learn more about public health in Washington State, to hear from its leaders and innovators, the latest research, legislation, and a myriad of other topics.

 

Join us for the new season during the 2024 WA Legislative Session! 

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The Public Health is Essential Podcast is back for the 2024 WA Legislative Session! Join us for weekly episodes geared towards beginners all about the legislative process and how to use your voice for health. 

Week 1:Session Structure and Using Your Voice. WSPHA Director, Megan Moore, and Admin Coordinator, Gloria Rogers, talk about the start of the Washington Legislative Session. We dive into feelings of inadequacy doing policy work and lay out the structure of the 2024 short session. RSS iTunes Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music

Week 2: Full steam ahead! WSPHA Executive Director, Megan Moore, and Admin Coordinator, Gloria Roger, discuss the happenings in the third week of the WA legislative session. They talk about how often bills can change and how you have to stay vigilant when tracking. RSS iTunes Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music

Week 3Free Ice Cream Fridays? WSPHA Executive Director, Megan Moore, and Admin Coordinator, Gloria Roger, discuss the happenings in the third week of the WA legislative session. They talk about how often bills can change and how you have to stay vigilant when tracking. RSS iTunes Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music

Week 4: Policy Cutoff and the Pace of Session. WSPHA Executive Director, Megan Moore, and Admin Coordinator, Gloria Rogers, talk about the looming first cutoff of session and what that means about the conversation in the legislature moving forward. RSS iTunes Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music

Week 5:The Floor and Behind-the-Scenes Magic. WSPHA  Executive Director, Megan Moore, and Admin Coordinator, Gloria Rogers, discuss the work done behind-the-scenes in the legislature to prevent wasted time in floor debate. We also have an update on the citizens' initiatives and how the legislature may handle them. RSS iTunes Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music
Week 6: Budgets and what to do if your bill dies? WSPHA Executive Director, Megan Moore, and Admin Coordinator, Gloria Rogers, discuss today's "House of Origin" cutoff and upcoming budget drops. We talk about what the budget means and what to do if your bill is doomed to die this session. RSS iTunes Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music
Week 7: The 2024 Budgets are out! WSPHA Executive Director, Megan Moore, and Admin Coordinator, Gloria Rodgers, talk about the happenings of week 6 and 7 during the Washington Legislative Process. We talk about some of the proposed allocations in the budgets. The end is in sight!  RSS iTunes Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music
Week 8: Rep. Greg Nance on Opioid Overdose Solutions. In this week's special episode WSPHA Director, Megan Moore, and Admin Coordinator, Gloria Rogers, interview Representative Greg Nance (LD 23, Bainbridge Island) about HB 2112, which would offer opioid overdose solutions and education in institutions of higher education. We talk about what to do after a bill passes and how you can get involved if you are a student in college right now. RSS iTunes Google Podcasts Spotify Amazon Music

 

Public Health is Essential Podcast

Theme music for Episode 1 and 2 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Shane Ivers of silvermansound.com.

1/6/2021
Adrian Dominguez
WSPHA Board President and Chief Data Officer at Seattle Indian Health Board
2/5/2023 
Prevention, Not Punishment. Decriminalizing youth Purchase/Use/Possession of commercial tobacco and vapor products
Elaine Ishihara, APICAT (Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Advocating Together for Health)
Penny Lipsou, Formerly of the American Heart Association