Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Safe States staff Eva Bland and Catherine Guerrero about the upstream prevention work happening among Safe States members. Also, they share resources available on the Safe States website to assist those working on upstream prevention work. RESOURCES: https://www.safestates.org/page/MappingOutIVP https://www.safestates.org/page/ConnectionsLab...
Jun 16, 2025•27 min•Season 5Ep. 8
Send us a text In this episode, Safe States Executive Director Sharon Gilmartin is the guest host and talks with Allison Arwady, Director of the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. To kick off the conversation, Dr. Arwady shares that the CDC has recently released 2024 provisional drug overdose death data that highlights a nearly 27% decrease in predicted deaths from the previous year's data and is seen in 48 states nationwide. Dr. Arwady credits changes in drug use, public h...
May 19, 2025•34 min•Season 5Ep. 7
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with guests Christina Ore from Seven Directions and Chris Tallbear from the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) about the collaborative work they are doing through their public health infrastructure grant funding received from the CDC. This work, in partnership with Safe States Alliance, is allowing them to provide opioid overdose prevention activities and education through training, technical assistance, and evaluation to b...
May 07, 2025•27 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Send us a text Host Mighty Fine talks with guest Jessica Ritter about the despair and hope many working in public health are feeling following the April 2025 cuts to the CDC and HHS workforce. Jessica references different resources she has found helpful: "Learning from the 60's" in Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde "Feminist Survival Project" podcast by Emily Nagoski, especially the episode "An Alternative to Hope" Big Bear Bald Eagle Nest Cam: https://www.friendsofbigbearvalley.org/eagles/...
Apr 15, 2025•36 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Send us a text In this episode, guest hosts Sharon Gilmartin, Safe States Executive Director, and Paul Bonta, Director of Government Relations, discuss Advocacy Day, which took place on March 20, 2025. Paul shares why it is so important for Safe States members and partners to participate in Advocacy Day, especially this year. Christa Thelen, Safe States Program Manager, interviews participants at Advocacy Day in Washington DC on March 20th to have them share their experience about the day. Brand...
Mar 25, 2025•15 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Send us a text In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine talks about policy tools and resources available on the Safe States website (www.safestates.org). These include funding briefs, Congressional priorities, and other resources available to individuals to assist in advocacy efforts in their IVP work. As Safe States gears up for Advocacy Day on March 20, 2025 - these tools and resources will be helpful to prepare for meetings with legislators, etc. to share the importance of injury and viole...
Feb 18, 2025•10 min•Season 5Ep. 3
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Tracy Mehan, Director of Research Translation and Communication, about artificial intelligence (AI) and how individuals use it every day, whether we realize it or not, in our work and lives. She provides insights and examples of AI use in injury and violence prevention (IVP) work while also giving some tips and recommendations on what to watch out for while using it to ensure quality in our work....
Jan 13, 2025•32 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Send us a text In this very special episode, host Mighty Fine sat down with Rich Hamburg, Safe States' Executive Director, and Sharon Gilmartin, Safe States' Deputy Director. They discussed the upcoming leadership transition as Rich retires at the end of December 2024 and Sharon takes on the Executive Director role in January 2025. Rich shares some words of wisdom and we hear some future plans from Sharon as the organization prepares for the upcoming changes....
Dec 16, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine is live at the 2024 Annual Conference in Portland, Oregon, asking participants how they are "blazing trails in injury and violence prevention," following the conference's theme.
Sep 16, 2024•21 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Send us a text Some may think that "ism's" - sexism, racism, classism, ableism, ageism, nationalism, etc. don't have anything to do with injury and violence prevention (IVP). On the contrary - they have everything to do with IVP. In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Jessica Ritter (she/they), a Certified Nonprofit Professional who has been working to improve public health in Pennsylvania. She is the current Safe Kids Pennsylvania State Office Coordinator. Throughout her career, she has f...
Aug 04, 2024•49 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Chezik Tsunoda, founder of No More Under, an organization based in Seattle, Washington along with Jeanette Jacobs, a nurse educator and teacher at CAST Med High School in San Antonio Texas. They will share about their projects that have received seed grant funding through Safe States. Both projects focus on equity and provide opportunities in their communities to expand injury and violence prevention efforts....
Jun 03, 2024•42 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Send us a text In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine talks about the recently released "Equity in Injury and Violence Prevention Vision and Call to Action" document from Safe States Alliance. Recommendations provided to advance equity injury and violence prevention are provided in this resource, and Mighty shares his thoughts - encouraging listeners to utilize this resource and take action to advance equity in their IVP work. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.safestates.org/resource/resmgr/ivpequi...
Apr 23, 2024•7 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine discusses the importance of advocacy in injury and violence prevention work at the state and national level. Topics include advocating in person on Capitol Hill along with finding opportunities to advocate virtually using online tools available to assist in the process. Guests include: Paul Bonta, Senior Policy Consultant Safe States Alliance Maria Cariaso, Injury Prevention Coordinator Indiana Department of Health Madelyn Maxwell, Healthy Aging a...
Mar 07, 2024•42 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Send us a text February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine shares with listeners some statistics on teen dating violence and provides some strategies that can be incorporated into injury and violence prevention work to increase awareness and educate on prevention of this important issue facing teens and families.
Feb 02, 2024•6 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Send us a text Host Mighty Fine talks with Jolene Holgate, Co-Founder and Board President of the Missing and Murdered Diné Relatives (MMDR). This group was established in March 2019 to address the ongoing crisis of missing and murdered relatives on the Navajo Nation. It is comprised of a multidisciplinary team tasked with developing a framework to establish a Missing & Murdered Diné Relatives data institute, encourage community action, and develop a missing persons community action toolkit t...
Jan 09, 2024•37 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine is live at the 2023 Annual Conference in Denver Colorado asking participants what they think the next big injury and violence prevention issue will be and how can we prepare for it now.
Sep 27, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Send us a text In this episode, guest host Deltavier Robertson speaks with staff and youth from the Michigan Organization on Sexual Health (MOASH) to learn more about their youth advocacy efforts and how they used grant funding from Safe States to support their work in building equity into their programming. We learn that youth are not just the future, they are very much the present and their voices matter!...
Jul 30, 2023•23 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Send us a text In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine shares with listeners his thoughts about disparities within maternal and child health. Factors related to drug overdose, COVID-19 and quality of care are having a negative effect on mothers and babies that needs increased attention and focus among injury and violence prevention professionals.
May 25, 2023•10 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Kristi Ladowski, an Injury Prevention & Outreach Coordinator for Stony Brook Trauma Center in NY. In addition to coordinating health promotion programs, she is currently working on her PhD in Public Health with her research focused on older adult falls prevention program implementation and sustainability. In this episode Kristi shares statistics about adult falls and also goes 'indepth' about prevention programs offered through her ...
Mar 03, 2023•31 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine sits down with several IVP professionals to discuss their unique roles and rich experiences as an IVP professional. Featured guests include: Beatriz Menanteau is a human rights and public health attorney. As Supervisor to the Minnesota Department of Health’s (MDH) Violence Prevention Programs Unit, she oversees efforts to change systems that perpetuate sexual violence, human trafficking, and exploitation, and ensure appropriate system-wide respons...
Nov 16, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text During the Safe States 2022 Annual Conference held August 31 - September 2 in Orlando, Florida host Mighty Fine had a chance to meet up with attendees and chat "in person"! Hear from our members what it's like being back in person for our Annual Conference after a 3 year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, what benefits they were getting out of the conference and exciting IVP work they are involved in. Take a few minutes to listen in and learn all about it....
Sep 29, 2022•56 min
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks with Tony Gomez, Manager of Violence and Injury Prevention at the Public Health - Seattle and King County Health Department in the first segment. Following that, Mighty speaks with Morag McKay, Director of Research and Network at Safe Kids Worldwide and also the chair of the steering committee overseeing the development of a US National Water Safety Action Plan along with Rebekah Thomas, who is a public health practitioner with expertise in ...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Send us a text In this INbetween episode, host Mighty Fine provides a list of suggestions that we as public health and injury violence prevention professionals can consider and act on in regards to gun violence prevention.
Jul 21, 2022•10 min
Send us a text In this episode, our host Mighty Fine talks with Russell Krumnow and Dr. Emmy Betz about suicide prevention and firearm safety. In the United States, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death among adults. When we talk about suicide, we also need to talk about firearms as 1/2 of all suicides are by firearms and 1/2 of firearm deaths are suicide. It is so important that conversations take place about how suicide and firearms interconnect - even if those conversations may be diffic...
Mar 30, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text Happy 2022! In this episode, we are changing things up a bit. This mini-podcast offers something for our listeners "INbetween" regular episodes and has been named as such. Join host, Mighty Fine, as he reflects on the topics of the INdepth podcast in 2021 and looks ahead to 2022 and ways we can work independently and collaboratively in strengthening the field of injury and violence prevention....
Jan 10, 2022•9 min0
Send us a text In this episode, host Mighty Fine talks about health equity and how it relates to injury and violence prevention with guests Pamela Imm, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Ashley Lamar, JPS Health Network and Ina Robinson, Safe States Alliance. Mighty poses some challenging questions to the group to encourage a very full discussion on what's been learned on these topics and what some possible solutions may be to improve equity across our nation....
Sep 27, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Send us a text Host Mighty Fine features Safe States members on this special edition to share their thoughts and feelings on the upcoming Safe States Annual Conference. Statements focus on Reconnecting and Reimagining - both individually and with their injury and violence prevention peers. Safe States members in order of "audio" appearance: Toska Cooper, UNC Injury Prevention Research Center Scott Proescholdbell, North Carolina Division of Public Health Courtney Edwards, Parkland Health & Ho...
Aug 26, 2021•8 min
Send us a text Host Mighty Fine talks with Richard Hamburg, Executive Director at Safe States Alliance and Sabah Ghulamali, Public Health Advisor to Senator Patty Murray about Public Health Infrastructure. In their conversation, they discuss the definition of public health infrastructure and proposed legislation that would improve it in our nation.
Jul 26, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Send us a text Our host Mighty Fine continues to talk all things data with guests Jared Parrish, a Maternal & Child Health Senior Epidemiologist with the Alaska Division of Public Health and Mike Dolan Fliss, an Epidemiologist with the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center. They discuss more about data trends and explore ways that data collection can be improved .
Jun 02, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Send us a text Host Mighty Fine talks with Jared Parrish, a Senior Maternal & Child Health Epidemiologist with the Alaska Division of Public Health and Mike Dolan Fliss, an Epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center about all things data as it relates to injury and violence prevention.
Jun 02, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 2
