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The Mental Health Association of East Tennessee recently released a report on the state of mental health in Knox County. Dr. Carole Myers of the UT College of Nursing speaks with Ben Harrington, MHAET's CEO, about mental health in Knox County and the rest of East Tennessee.

Dr. Carole Myers of the UT College of Nursing speaks with Robin Cogan, a Nationally Certified School Nurse (NCSN) currently in her 21st year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District, and Allyson Neal, Assistant Dean in the UT College of Nursing and a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who specializes in child and adolescent mental and behavioral health.

Each year about 1 in 10 infants in the United States is born prematurely. Prematurity is defined as being born before 37 weeks of gestation. Due to major advances, babies born very prematurely are more likely to survive than even a few decades ago. Dr. Carole Myers of the UT College of Nursing speaks with Dr. Kathy Newnam, Associate Professor in the UT College of Nursing and a neonatal nurse practitioner at UT Medical Center.

On our next Dialogue, a snapshot of Knox County’s unhoused population. What has changed from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to today? How is the current housing crisis affecting this population? What are the plans for the future? WUOT's Chrissy Keuper will speak with:Nate First, Knox Homeless Management Information System or KnoxHMIS through the Social Work Office of Research and Public Service (SWORPS) in the University of Tennessee College of Social Work; Kristine Townsend, Knoxville-Knox County Community Action Committee; Candace Allen, McNabb Center; Michael Dunthorn and Shawn Griffith, Homeless Program Coordinators for the City of Knoxville Office on Homelesseness.Join us for Dialogue today, September 7th, at noon on WUOT.

About 1 in 6 people living in the U.S. are Hispanic/Latino. This number is expected to grow to 1 in 4 by 2035. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Hispanic population grew by 3.8% from 2020 to 2021, the largest growth among any group. The Hispanic population in TN is the third largest racial or ethnic group behind Whites and Black/African Americans. Dr. Carole Myers of the University of Tennessee College of Nursing speaks with Cristina Cáceres, Director of Community Resources at Centro Hispano de East Tennessee about the healthcare challenges facing this community.

Dr. Carole Myers of the UT College of Nursing and Dr. Marianne Wanamaker, Executive Director for the Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy, discuss life expectancy, which is a key measure for assessing the health of a population.

Mental illness is a significant global health crisis. In late 2021, the US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued an advisory about the youth mental health crisis. In Knoxville and East Tennessee, youth are struggling with depression, anxiety, and behavioral disorders. In Tennessee, suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth ages 10 to 17. Dr. Carole Myers speaks with Dr. Stephen Loyd, Chief Medical Officer for Cedar Recovery, VP of the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners, Chair of the Tennessee Abatement Count, and a member of the University of Tennessee SMART Policy Network.

Dr. Carole Myers of the UT College of Nursing speaks with Dr. David Bassett, UT Professor Emeritus of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies, about his studies of physical activity and energy expenditure, especially the impact of walking on body weight, blood pressure, blood lipids, and other cardiovascular risk factors, and about how many steps are enough for good health.

COVID-19 and monkeypox are keeping viruses and our knowledge about them at the forefront of our lives and the news. On August's Dialogue, we’ll look at the current landscape of another virus we’ve been talking about since the 1970s: the HIV virus. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper, Dr. Carole Myers, and a panel of guests discussed the current state of HIV/AIDS in Knox County and the U.S.

In June of 2015, a fire soon ruled as arson burned part of the College Hill Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Knoxville, one of several Black churches in the South that experienced arson that summer. Dr. Todne Thomas, a socio-cultural anthropologist and Associate Professor of African American Religious Studies at Harvard Divinity School, is studying what has happened in the church community and the city since the College Hill arson and she spoke about that work with WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper.