Cancer Moonshot

Published on December 1, 2023

The U.S. government just launched the largest, most ambitious research project yet aimed at understanding firefighter cancer.

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Trauma and Risk

November 28, 2023
It's well understood that childhood trauma can have dramatic effects on a person's adult life, and in recent years, risk prevention experts have started to recognize it as a sizeable contributor to both individual and community risk. Today on the podcast, we talk to a director at the University of Michigan Trauma Burn Center about the role that childhood trauma plays in increased community risk, a

Re-Thinking Wildfire

December 12, 2023
As destruction from wildfire in the U.S. continues to set records, it's become abundantly clear that the country's current strategies are not working. But what should we be doing differently? Over the past year, a wildfire commission, comprised of 50 experts from a range of fields, met to try and answer that incredibly complicated question. In September, the commission sent Congress its final 300-