Prescription for Justice

Debuted October, 2017. Currently airing in Portland, OR and in markets in 13 other states and D.C.; open to new markets. YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJt34I9c5vT2RpZtkg6Im2A/videos. Subscribe to be notified of new episodes.

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Host, guests, and staff are not paid and there are no disclosures to report for this independent, community media program.

Introduction to program. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1p2YwUF0c.

*Episode 1: The education system in the United States. October, 2017. Guest Paul Donohoe – Donohoe Academics – https://www.facebook.com/pg/pauldonohoeacademics/about/. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XQHJPmMg-U.

*Episode 2: Reproductive rights for women, November, 2017. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt-Oa6YVGb0.

*Episode 3: Nuclear weapons and the campaign to abolish them. December, 2017 Guest Chuck Johnson – Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F0Fy0c5cec. 

*Episode 4: Housing and homelessness. January, 2018. Guest Allison McIntosh – Deputy Director of Policy and Communications at Neighborhood Partnerships. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6l5lgnuwB0.

*Episode 5: Air pollution – purifying the miasma. January, 2018.  Guest Mary Peveto – President, Neighbors for Clean Air, March. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=477dmxiWs4o.

*Episode 6: Gun violence – the war against ourselves. April, 2018. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8ZTmp8fur0.

*Episode 7: Contemporary labor issues. May, 2018. Guest Will Layng – Executive Director of Portland Jobs with Justice. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNC4OPbn3jc.

*Episode 8: Complicit. June, 2018. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eer4TTmPXvs.

*Episode 9: Corporate personhood. July, 2018. Guest David Delk – Chair of the Oregon Progressive Party and national Co-Chair of the Alliance for Democracy. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2aC8nw2GJs.

*Episode 10: Women in science. August, 2018. Guests Alison Schaser – President, Women in Science, Portland and Laura Stadum – Director and Title IX Coordinator, Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Department, Oregon Health and Science University. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFzb4Y-YoZE&feature=youtu.be

*Episode 11: Immigration – Ethics and Philosophy. September, 2018. Guest Alex Sager, PhD, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Portland State University and author of Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics of Mobility: The Migrant’s Eye View of the World. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QEuC4MlUX4.

*Episode 12. Howl – Ecological Destruction, Endangered Species, and Wolves. October, 2018. Guest Danielle Moser, Wildlife Coordinator at Oregon Wild. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5O6LHMLC7E.

*Episode 13. Teaching Social Justice (part I). November, 2018. Guest Hyung Nam, high school social studies teacher, activist, steering committee for the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okR2F54Mzbw.

*Episode 14. Teaching Social Justice (part II). December, 2018. Guest Hyung Nam, high school social studies teacher, activist, steering committee for the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h66IxAquxc.

*Episode 15. Doctors Gone Bad: Physicians, Dictatorships, and Warrior Cultures. January, 2019. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEWyHubz30&feature=youtu.be.

*Episode 16. Sick: The unhealthy state of the U.S. health care system, and how to fix it (part I). Guest Samuel Metz, MD, Oregon Physicians for a National Health Program and Mad as Hell Doctors. February, 2019. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2CjyJmxJA.

*Episode 17. Sick: The unhealthy state of the U.S. health care system, and how to fix it (part II). Guest Samuel Metz, MD, Oregon Physicians for a National Health Program and Mad as Hell Doctors. March, 2019. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC5wgXR2aUY.

*Episode 18. The death penalty: history, exonerations, and moratoria. Guest Ron Steiner, Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. April, 2019. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUEkqmL4XX8.

*Episode 19. Undocumented Immigrants and Kidney Transplants: An Inspiring Story. Guest Kristin Pallock, 4th year medical student at Rush Medical College (now MD), recipient of American Public Health Association’s 2018 Student Activist Award. May, 2019. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-lqemhfpqY.

*Episodes 20. Immigration: history, imperialism, incarceration, and human rights (Part I). Guest Matthew Anderson, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and co-editor, Social Medicine. June, 2019. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9IKAmXg5g.

*Episode 21. Immigration: history, imperialism, incarceration, and human rights (Part II). Guest Matthew Anderson, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and co-editor, Social Medicine.  July, 2019. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLZFUmw_Ys.

*Episode 22. Donald Trump is mentally unfit to be president. August, 2019. Guest Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv, forensic psychiatrist, internationally recognized expert on violence, member of the faculty of Yale School of Medicine’s Law and Psychiatry Division.  Consultant to the UN and WHO, co-founder and director of the World Mental Health Coalition, and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (New York, 2017, Thomas Dunne Books, St Martin’s Press). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKDLlvKsYEg.

*Episode 23. Climate change: causes, consequences, and call to action. Martin Donohoe. October, 2019. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OD5PRj3Y3k.

*Episode 24. Climate change, weather extremes, and sea level rise. Guest Kristina Dahl, PhD, Senior Climate Scientist at Union of Concerned Scientists and lead author of Killer Heat in the United States (UCS, 2019). November, 2019. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=821T3VdjA2c.

*Episodes 25. Lead Poisoning – Past, Present, and Future (Part I – December, 2019). Guest David Rosner, PhD, MPH,  Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Co-Director, Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqEJ9K7EHUA.

*Episodes 26. Lead Poisoning – Past, Present, and Future (Part II – January, 2020). Guest David Rosner, PhD, MPH,  Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and Co-Director, Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKJay2DC38c.

*Episode 27: Ignorance, Pseudoscience, and Democracy. February, 2020. Available at https://youtu.be/bGKnLhHlUfM.

*Episode 28. Slavery and Reparations, Part I (March, 2020). Guest Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD, Dean, Professor, and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Available at https://youtu.be/qkroHxqhOGM.

*Episode 29. Slavery and Reparations, Part II (March, 2020). Guest Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD, Dean, Professor, and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Available at https://youtu.be/q52L0eODOBw.

Covid hiatus Spring 2020, program returning soon