Clarence Jones has worked for years to keep us and our communities healthy, and he continues to do so! Clarence is the Executive Director and Community Engagement Strategist of the Hue-MAN Partnership- a coalition of collaborators that strengthen community health through innovative partnerships. He is also an Adjunct Instructor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. … Read more
Today we’re going to be talking about living healthier lives with Dr. Tom Kottke. Dr. Kottke is the Medical Director of Well-Being at HealthPartners and Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. He has also authored or co-authored an incredible number of articles, reports, presentations, and reviews – all centered around how we can … Read more
Dr. Gatermann (he/him) specializes in working with the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community, providing assessment and therapeutic services to early childhood to late adulthood. Dr. Gatermann works from a trauma-informed intersectional framework, which enables him to understand the complexities of identity and mental healthcare. Therapeutically, he believes that people are masters of their journey and therapy can be … Read more
Kelly Robinson of Messianic Care is back! In this conversation we catch up on her work on COVID-19 and talk through her passion for reducing health disparities – particularly when it comes to black women and black children. Finally, we take some time to talk about how people can just go about living a healthy … Read more
The Youth and AIDS Projects—a non-profit organization housed in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Pediatrics—offers HIV testing, HIV/AIDS medical case management, HIV prevention services, and sexual health education programs for young people living in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. Val Rubin-Rashaad is YAP’s executive director. She graduated from Concordia University with a B.A. in Political … Read more
Mattie Laidlaw is a Community Engagement Systems Planner at the Center for Health Equity and the LGBTQ+ Community Liaison for the Cultural, Faith, and Disability Communities Branch for the Minnesota Department of Health. In this conversation Jerome and Mattie walk through the differences between the way that COVID-19 and Mpox show up in our bodies, … Read more
Kate Murry is the Program Manager for Long COVID / long haulers syndrome for the Minnesota Department of Health. This conversation reflects what was known about Long COVID in the scientific and public health community up to Spring of 2022. Jerome and Kate talk through the ins and outs of Long COVID or long haulers … Read more
We are reading “What Happened to You?” by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry to learn more about trauma, our brains, and ourselves. All episodes relating to this conversation will be posted to this page with the latest episode near the top. Listen and follow “Bottomless Coffee Podcast”Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | … Read more
Coordinating Pandemic Response Bianca Virnig is the Regional COVID Coordinator to Twin Cities metro area schools and a School Board member for Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District. In this conversation Jerome and Bianca talk through her work in helping to coordinate the way that school districts respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Related Conversation
Guest Dr. Nathan Chomilo is the former director of vaccine equity for the Minnesota Department of Health. Dr. Chomilo sat down with Jerome to discuss how health officials at the highest levels decided who would get first access to the COVID-19 vaccine when it was still in short supply.
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