Past Common Health Programs

Program Audio Archives

Please click on the links below to listen to past programs, hear news reports on the program topics, obtain contact information for guests, access links relevant to the program topics, and read text summaries of the program discussions.

2005

• January: An Introduction to the Series
• February: Clean Drinking Water
• March: Food Safety
• April: Toxics in Our Lives
• May: Community Heroes
• June Common Health: Tough Choices
• July: Workplace Health
• August: Air Quality
• September: Maine's State Health Plan
• October: Healthy Buildings
• November: Maine State Health Plan Draft
• December: What We've Learned

2006

• January: Infectious Disease-Bird Flu
• February: Homelessness-Seeking Shelter
• March: Violence, Peace, and Public Health
• April: Locally Grown Food
• May: Surviving Prom: Underage Substance Abuse
• June: Disasters and Emergency Management
• July: Fitness and the Calorie Balance
• August: Diet and the Calorie Balance
• September: School and Health
• October: Global Climate Change
• November: Substance Abuse through the Ages
• December: Inequity and Public Health

2007

• January: Sex and Public Health
• February: Creating Shelter
• March: Lessons from the East
• April: Building a Better Public Health System
• May: Not in Our Town: High School Students Speak Out
• June: Good Vibrations, Electromagnetic Emissions and Health
• July: Community Care Reaching Out to People in Need
• August: Hunger, Locally Grown Food and the Gastro-Industrial Complex
• September: Healthy Animals
• October: Healthy Buildings - Green Buildings
• November: Sanity
• December: Gifts for the World

2008

• January: Creativity, Art and Health
• February: Finding Shelter and Staying Warm
• March: On Dying
• April: Smart Growth
• April: Women's Health
• May: Clean and Sober
• June: Bike for your Life
• July: Sun, Sand and Skin Cancer
• August: Dealing with Disabilities
• September: Adolescent Health
• October: Bundle Up - Strategies for Staying Warm
• November: Healthy Wildlife