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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.

The move to home-based care got a big boost during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now there are questions about the sustainability and demand for this model of care delivery and whether home-based care could be a new normal. Dr. Carole Myers, Professor Emerita in the UT College of Nursing, speaks with Kevin Riddleberger, a co-founder and chief strategy officer for DispatchHealth.

The Metro Drug Coalition just held its annual East Tennessee Opioid Conference. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper spoke with four medical professionals who spoke at the conference about the current state of the opioid crisis in Tennessee; methods of harm reduction and recovery support; possible alternatives to opioids for pain treatment; and more.

Dr. Carole Myers of the UT College of Nursing speaks with Dr. David White, Interim Dean of UT's Herbert College of Agriculture about antimicrobial resistance (AMR), named one of the most serious global public health threats of the century.

Dr. Carole Myers speaks with Dr. Whitney Wharton and Dr. Joel Anderson, who are leading a national study designed to improve age-related resources and to ensure that LGBTQIA+ patients with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) and LGBTQIA+ caregivers are included in ADRD research.

On February's Dialogue, WUOT's Chrissy Keuper celebrated World Read Aloud Day with Teresa Brittain and Kristin Yarnell of the Friends of Literacy and writers Michael Knight and Linda Parsons, both members of the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.

WUOT's Chrissy Keuper spoke with Dr. Ted Olson of ETSU about James Hobart Stanton, the owner of Rich-R-Tone Records, one of the state's first record labels, the first in East Tennessee, and the first anywhere that had a primary focus on bluegrass music.

If predictions hold true, there will be some vigorous discussions in Nashville and across the state when the 113th Tennessee General Assembly convenes in January 2023. Two issues at the intersection of people, health, and policy are the crisis associated with children in custody of the Tennessee Department of Children Services and possible modifications to Tennessee’s abortion trigger law. Dr. Carole Myers of the University of Tennessee College of Nursing speaks with Tennessee State Senator Dr. Richard Briggs, a physician and retired Army Colonel representing the 7th District.

Homelessness qualifies as a "wicked” societal problem, which have several common characteristics: incomplete or contradictory knowledge about the problem; a wide range of people and opinions involved; associated with a large economic burden; and interconnected with other problems. Dr. Carole Myers of the University of Tennessee College of Nursing speaks with Dr. David Patterson, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tennessee College of Social Work.

The U.S. government does not track overdose death rates for every drug, but it does for opioids. Dr. Carole Myers speaks with Dr. Jennifer Tourville, Executive Director of the SMART Initiative, which provides leadership in mitigating the opioid crisis in Tennessee and is an agency of the University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service.