A quarter of young adults are turning to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for mental health advice, highlighting a massive shift in how people seek support. Dr. Ateev Mehrotra discusses his research and the urgent need to balance AI's capacity for providing accessible, cost-effective care with its potential to unwittingly cause harm.

<description>&lt;p&gt;A quarter of young adults are turning to AI chatbots like ChatGPT for mental health advice, highlighting a massive shift in how people seek support. Dr. Ateev Mehrotra discusses his research and the urgent need to balance AI's capacity for providing accessible, cost-effective care with its potential to unwittingly cause harm.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The AI Therapist Will See You Now

In a world teeming with health data—from smart watch accelerometry to millions of hospital system electronic records—how do researchers find out which medical treatments truly work? Biostatistician Rebecca Hubbard discusses the messiness of real-world data, the limits of randomized control trials and how both of these powerful—but imperfect—methods are essential for building trustworthy evidence in public health.

<description>&lt;p&gt;In a world teeming with health data—from smart watch accelerometry to millions of hospital system electronic records—how do researchers find out which medical treatments truly work? Biostatistician &lt;strong&gt;Rebecca Hubbard&lt;/strong&gt; discusses the messiness of real-world data, the limits of randomized control trials and how both of these powerful—but imperfect—methods are essential for building trustworthy evidence in public health.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Messy Data, Real Answers

Measles has been declared eliminated in the U.S. for 25 years, but a surge in cases is threatening that status. Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the <a href="https://pandemics.sph.brown.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pandemic Center</a> at Brown University, joined Humans in Public Health to break down the outbreak, the chaotic federal response and how her team's tracker is stepping in to provide reliable, life-saving data.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Measles has been declared eliminated in the U.S. for 25 years, but a surge in cases is threatening that status. Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the &lt;a href="https://pandemics.sph.brown.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Pandemic Center&lt;/a&gt; at Brown University, joined Humans in Public Health to break down the outbreak, the chaotic federal response and how her team's tracker is stepping in to provide reliable, life-saving data.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

The Return of a Preventable Disease: Measles, misinformation and the crisis at the CDC

We all understand the power a song can have to recall vivid memories, seemingly sending us back in time. Professor Ellen McCreedy is a musician whose gerontology research harnesses music’s power to recall memories. She’s testing an intervention that brings personalized music playlists to nursing homes in order to help ease dementia symptoms for patients, without using medication. Driven to give dementia sufferers—and their caregivers—moments of having themselves back again, McCreedy joined Humans in Public Health to discuss her work, its challenges and the grandmother who originally inspired her.

<description>&lt;p&gt;We all understand the power a song can have to recall vivid memories, seemingly sending us back in time. Professor Ellen McCreedy is a musician whose gerontology research harnesses music’s power to recall memories. She’s testing an intervention that brings personalized music playlists to nursing homes in order to help ease dementia symptoms for patients, without using medication. Driven to give dementia sufferers—and their caregivers—moments of having themselves back again, McCreedy joined Humans in Public Health to discuss her work, its challenges and the grandmother who originally inspired her. &lt;/p&gt;</description>

The Power to Transport

Since the 1980s, the U.S. has experimented with various forms of managed health care. But none of them has managed to control costs or improve health outcomes, argues Senior Fellow Hayden Rooke-Ley. In this episode of Humans in Public Health, he explains a radical new idea from <a href="https://cahpr.sph.brown.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">CAHPR</a> researchers for delivering lower health care costs that is actually quite old-fashioned: a return to fee-for-service. Read the JAMA article <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2830677" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Since the 1980s, the U.S. has experimented with various forms of managed health care. But none of them has managed to control costs or improve health outcomes, argues Senior Fellow Hayden Rooke-Ley. In this episode of Humans in Public Health, he explains a radical new idea from &lt;a href="https://cahpr.sph.brown.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;CAHPR&lt;/a&gt; researchers for delivering lower health care costs that is actually quite old-fashioned: a return to fee-for-service. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the JAMA article &lt;a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2830677" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

A Revolutionary Approach to Health Care Pricing

How should we prepare for the next pandemic? How is noise pollution affecting my neighborhood? And how can we prevent opioid overdose from a public parking lot? From epidemiology to behavioral science, Megan Hall covers it all as she interviews public health researchers about their work and what brought them to the field of public health in this award-winning podcast.

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