Welcome! This month's special guest is Dr. Kristen Brown, a senior research associate at Urban Institute. We discuss her recent publication Still Separate, Still Not Equal: An ecological examination of redlining and racial segregation with COVID-19 vaccination administration in Washington DC. We talk about methods for measuring racial residential segregation and contemporary/historical redlining, and we discuss the implications of the paper's findings. Racial residential segregation in the US is persistent and associated with racial health inequities, including in COVID-19 infections, testing, and vaccination. For more details, visit https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-racial-segregation/.

This month marks the 10-year anniversary (blogiversary) of The Medical Care Blog, where we focus on the intersection of public health and medical care. To celebrate this milestone, we are dedicating this month's podcast to a blog-focused episode featuring special guests Greg Stevens and Ben King, co-editors of this blog (and absolutely wonderful colleagues). Visit the blog today to see the video for this episode and learn more about becoming a contributor!

This month's podcast features a roundtable on the new Local Climate Impact pilot project from the RTI Rarity team. Special guests Aditya Vadalkar, MS, Bahamin Ayla Akhtari, MS, and Sourabh Deshmukh, MS discuss our project, focused on three domains: climate-related risk, community resilience, and community vulnerability.

We also present interactive maps of our in-progress dashboard featuring California and Florida. The dashboard allows us to explore those states' current risk, resilience, and vulnerability along with simulation modeling of the potential local impact of climate change in the future.

Episode video at https://www.themedicalcareblog.com/podcast-local-climate-impact/