Urban Service Talks Podcast

About Urban Service Talks Podcast

Urban Service Talks is a student centered, student run podcast series developed and produced by Urban Health/AHEC Scholars, and is sponsored by CT AHEC. Urban Service Talks explores issues and answers questions important to today's and tomorrow's healthcare workforce. The focus of the podcast includes key pillars of the Urban Service Track/AHEC Scholars program: interprofessional education and team-based care, addressing social determinants of health, and care for the underserved, while featuring the voices of students from a variety of healthcare profession training programs at UCONN and Quinnipiac University. The topics for the podcasts are varied and feature students, professionals, and community members. The target audience includes health professions trainees, health and public health professionals, as well as pre-health professions students. To listen to the podcast, access Urban Service Talks through your preferred media account. Stay connected with Urban Service Talks through Twitter @TalksService and Instagram @urbanservicetalks. We welcome listener feedback about topics, presenters and most importantly, the dialogue and energy of our podcast series. Please contact us at ust.pod@gmail.com.

Publisher

CT AHEC

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jun 2021

Latest episode

12 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Jan 2026

   47. Indigenous Healthcare

   In this episode of Urban Service Talks recorded in the spring of 2025, Jackie and Flora talk with Kiara Tanta-Quidegeon, a proud member of the Mohegan tribe of Connecticut, about her personal and professional experiences about the challenges that Indigenous people currently face in receiving adequate healthcare. Kiara received a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University and has completed both research about Native Americans’ perspectives on health and written extensively about health equity. She provides insight into how ‘Western’ and ‘traditional’ medicine can be provided in partnership to Native communities and how clinicians and non-clinicians alike can support the improved health and well-being of all Indigenous people. https://health.uconn.edu/connecticut-area-health-education-center-network/urban-services-track-and-ahec-scholars/urban-service-talks/

2. 

   30 Jun 2025

   46. Substance Use Stigma

   Dr. Erin Fanning Madden discusses the pervasive stigma surrounding substance use in healthcare with Briti Prajapati and Bryson Christian, highlighting the need for harm reduction and compassionate care in policy and practice in this interview.

3. 

   13 Jun 2025

   45. Grief & Loss Part 4: A Healthcare Provider’s Story

   Michal Klau-Stevens, LCSW, shares her experiences navigating grief and loss in both her personal and professional life as a healthcare provider, interviewed by Hannah Martin and Monique Asselin.

Who has been a guest on Urban Service Talks Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Briti Prajapati
• Bryson Christian
• Michal Klau-Stevens
• Dr Germine Soliman
• Ruth Pearlman

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

26

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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