In our first episode based largely on archival research, we trace the complicated relationship between feminism and alternative medicine from its origins to the present day, with a focus on homeopathy and the ways it’s been co-opted for profit.
Read MoreIf you live in an earthquake-prone area, there's probably one question on your mind a lot of the time: when is the next big one going to hit?
Read More“You just do things differently and that's fine!”
In the fifth Spotlight, UC Berkeley's Jen Pearlstein talks about her research on how stress affects decision making, how she's making mental health care more accessible, and being a disabled scientist.
Read MoreArtificial intelligence guides nearly every aspect of our lives: what TV shows we’re recommended, whose opinions we see on social media, what we buy, how we invest our money...the list is endless. But what does “artificial intelligence” mean? What do these algorithms know? If we could look inside a robot’s mind, would we see a reflection of ourselves? Dr. Dan Yamins, Dr. Kim Stachenfeld, and Dr. Grace Lindsay helped us explore what it means to be intelligent, and what separates humans from machines.
Read MoreIn this week's episode, we talk to Dr. Madhavi Dandu and Dr. Elizabeth Fair about how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the course of Global Health education, why the US’s pandemic response has fallen short, and what we can learn from looking abroad.
Read MoreIn this week's episode, we talk to Alexandra Keir, Jane Fieldhouse, Dr. Lucia Abascal, and Maeve Forster. Since March, they have been working on Research Watch, a project to rapidly summarize new COVID-19 research and communicate it to healthcare workers, scientists, and policy makers.
Read MoreGlobal Health in the Time of COVID is a miniseries from the Institute for Global Health Sciences at UCSF produced by Carry the One Radio. Our first episode features Dr. Kim Baltzell, a professor of nursing at UCSF and director of Global Action in Nursing (GAIN), a project that promotes clinical training in sub-Saharan Africa.
Read MoreFor installment of “The Spotlight” we interviewed Jhia Jackson, a sociology PhD candidate at UCSF. We discussed her educational journey, research on pediatric palliative care, her career as a professional dancer, being black at UCSF, cats, and ways to stay sane in grad school.
Read MoreWe pretty much all accept the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the earth, but this wasn’t always the case. A few centuries ago, nobody believed animals could even go extinct. It would take huge societal upheaval and a few very determined oddballs to change people’s minds.
Read MoreIn this episode, we’re getting into the weeds of cannabis research. Cannabis is the most widely used illegal drug in the world, but there is still so much we do not know about it.
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