The Grapevine Health Podcast
Using storytelling, the Grapevine Health podcast desires to improve community health literacy. The voice of community members is central to the podcast, featuring community folks who have a story to tell about their health care scares, experiences, fears, and observations. Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick will facilitate conversations between the community member telling the story and an expert to help dispel myths and help people understand the nuances of the medical or scientific info being shared.
Episodes
50 episodes
A Year in Isolation
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Ms. Roney, our very first podcast guest! Roney talks about her year in isolation during the pandemic and how she coped with being stuck in her home. She also talks about the vaccine, the fact that the pandemi...
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Episode 50
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13:45
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick speaks with her neighbor, Linwood. Linwood talks about his healthcare experiences over the years and the lack of trust he has with the healthcare system in general. Linwood talks about how some members of the community may ...
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Episode 49
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15:10
Healthcare Advocacy
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Nickie Johnson-Ahorlu who shares stories about advocacy in healthcare. Johnson-Ahorlu shares personal stories about how a lack of advocacy can affect healthcare outcomes and how she has advocated for herself ...
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Episode 48
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20:34
Shining Light
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick talks with Shari Small, also known as Shining Light. Small sheds light on the marginalization of Native Americans across the country and the healthcare crisis caused by the pandemic. Small talks about the divide betwe...
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Episode 47
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19:05
Building a Better Community
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Kimberly Dowdell, an architect working in Detroit and Chicago. Dowdell talks about the relationships between where people live and their health outcomes and how architecture has influenced the history of the ...
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Episode 46
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20:30
Young Adults & the COVID-19 Long Haul
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Willow Fortunoff, a graduating senior at Macalester College and COVID long-hauler. Fortunoff talks about her experiences with coronavirus and how it took a toll on her health. She offers advice to young peopl...
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Episode 45
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15:16
Toothache
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Carlus Richardson, a community member. Richardson talks about his difficulty receiving dental care and the problems with the dental care system in the United States. Richardson gives examples of the specific ...
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Episode 44
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19:20
Hear Me Out
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick talks to John Johnson, artist, storyteller, and founder of Verbal Gymnastics. Johnson talks about his experiences getting the coronavirus vaccine as well as stories he heard about the vaccine from the community. Johnson tal...
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Episode 43
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21:21
Bias and Trauma
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Jessica Brooks, a health equity advocate and mother of four. Brooks talks about the trauma she experienced when delivering her treatment and how it motivated her to start Healthdesk, an organization that advo...
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Episode 42
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20:00
The Community and Mental Health
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Stephanie Foo, a community member working to help raise awareness about mental health issues. Foo talks about the root of mental health issues and some of the reasons why they go unsolved. She also talks abou...
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Episode 41
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18:40
Mental Health and Addiction
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Bomani Perkins. Perkins shares his story about his battle with addiction and mental health. He offers insight into the role of mental health in addiction and how mental health is stigmatized in the community....
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Episode 40
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20:25
Prisoner
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Joe Houston Jr., a returning citizen who breaks down how healthcare works inside the prison system. Houston talks about how he was injured while incarcerated and how he was mistreated by the prison system. Ho...
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Episode 39
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20:34
Evolving Trust
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Toyin Ajayi. co-founder and CHO of Cityblock Health. Ajayi talks about the creation of Cityblock and how it works to help those underserved in the healthcare community. Dr. Lisa and Ajayi talk about trust in ...
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Episode 38
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19:39
Addressing Bias
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with DeAndra Godwin-Randolph to talk about bias in the healthcare system. Randolph talks about her first-hand experiences about bias she has received and bias she has witnessed. She also breaks down how the health...
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Episode 37
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19:53
The Reality of Healthcare in the Community
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Juanita Coates, a community member. Coates talks about her experiences with healthcare and community responses to healthcare in the community. Coates talks about ways that the healthcare community can work to...
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Episode 36
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20:13
Vaccine Hesitancy
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Darryl Robinson, a vaccine skeptic turned advocate. Robinson talks about how he came around to believing in the vaccine and what he is hearing in the community about vaccine hesitancy. Dr. Lisa and Robinson b...
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Episode 35
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19:25
Community Sandwich
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Stuart Anderson, a community health activist. Anderson began making sandwiches to feed hungry people in the community when the pandemic began, making thousands of sandwiches over the past year. Anderson also ...
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Episode 34
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17:38
Disparity in Maternity
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with mother Ebony Kirby and doula Shanita Edwards to discuss inequalities in maternal health. Kirby and Edwards provide personal experiences where they felt that they were treated differently because of their heal...
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Episode 33
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23:30
The Importance of Community Health Workers
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Cortlen Yarbrough, a community health worker. Yarbrough goes over what community health workers do and their importance in the healthcare system. He also talks about his experiences as a community health work...
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Episode 32
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18:12
Riding the Bus
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Natasha Dupee, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in Washington, D.C. Dupee talks about "riding the bus," which is a view into the impact of social and economic segregation. The two talk about the health i...
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Episode 31
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20:06
Explaining the Vaccine
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Khadijah Tribble to talk about the coronavirus vaccine. The two talk about trusted healthcare information and vaccine skepticism in the black community. Dr. Lisa dispels skepticism about the vaccine and expla...
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Episode 30
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20:42
Sex Trafficking
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Charlynn Robertson, who tells her story about being involved in sex trafficking and how she escaped her predators. Robertson breaks down the process predators use to manipulate people and how healthcare worke...
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Episode 29
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19:35
Dr. Fauci
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick sits down with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Fauci explains how the coronavirus vaccine works in the body and provides explanations for how the vaccine was com...
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Episode 28
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16:05