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Monica L. Wang discusses how personal storytelling can address public health challenges and her book on upstream solutions.

About this episode: When it comes to solving big public health issues, personal storytelling can turn abstract research into real impact. In this episode: Monica L. Wang, an award-winning public health researcher and educator, discusses her new book, "The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health," and how individual stories can help to identify and solve collective health challenges. Guest: Monica L. Wang , ScD, MS, is an associate professor at the Boston University School of Public Health and an adjunct professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is also the editor at large of the Public Health Post . Host: Lindsay Smith Rogers, MA , is the producer of the Public Health On Call podcast , an editor for Expert Insights , and the director of content strategy for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Show links and related content: The Collective Cure: Upstream Solutions for Better Public Health —Penguin Random House What public health can learn from the MAHA movement —STAT Transcript information: Looking for episode transcripts? Open our podcast on the Apple Podcasts app (desktop or mobile) or the Spotify mobile app to access…

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