Posts tagged Health
Josie Lehrer on the Men's Story Project

How can storytelling help foster healthy masculinity in a time of #MeToo and Time’s Up? How can social learning help us examine and challenge gender norms to promote health, peace, and justice? 

In this episode of FoossaPod, Lee-Sean Huang interviews Dr. Josie Lehrer of the Men’s Story Project, a movement building project for healthy masculinity. The project uses the power of storytelling and social learning to promote community, health, and peace-building. 

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FoossaPod: Klaatch on Design for Meaningful Connections and Healthy Seniors

Loneliness kills. 

Fortune Magazine analyzed findings from 70 scientific studies. They found that loneliness, isolation, and living alone all had a significant effect on a person's risk for early death. 

Loneliness affects people of all ages, but older people are particularly vulnerable.  

In this episode of Foossapod, we hear from Meli Glenn and Adam Green from Klaatch.

Klaatch is a service that is ending loneliness among seniors. 

Klaatch removes the barriers to making meaningful connections, in-person, that create lasting change and improve healthy aging. 

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Uzma Alam on Community Engagement in International Humanitarian Health

How can community engagement help humanitarian health workers save more lives? What can the humanitarian health community learn from global brands like Coca Cola and McDonalds? 

In this episode of FoossaPod, we hear from Dr. Uzma Alam, an expert in international humanitarian health and an Allies Reaching for Community Health Equity (ARCHE) Public Voices fellow with The OpEd Project and the Center for Global Policy Solutions. 

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