The Georgia Health Report
Friday afternoons at 5:44 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 5:35 p.m.
The WUGA Health Desk presents a weekly program, Georgia Health Report, focused on health news and issues facing Georgians. The program, hosted by Emma Auer, features regular news and commentary from Renuka Rayasam and Sam Whitehead of KFF Health News, and Rebecca Grapevine of Healthbeat. Jamia Wideman is the show's production intern.
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This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Emma Auer and KFF's Sam Whitehead preview the upcoming meeting in Atlanta of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel. -
Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, host Emma Auer talks to Healthbeat Atlanta's Rebecca Grapevine about the recent exodus of top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, we’ll discuss the background on our state’s public health system, and what public health officials are telling legislators about the challenges ahead.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, we discusses an investigation into gun violence since the pandemic–and whether treating gun violence as a public health issue can save people’s lives.
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Today on the Georgia Health Report, Republican lawmakers in states including Georgia have long argued that the decision to refuse the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion would pay off in the long run.
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Today on the Georgia Health Report, host Emma Auer talks with Renuka Rayasam, a reporter for KFF Health News in Atlanta, about families who rely on the food benefit program (SNAP) and what changes to the program’s funding may mean for Georgians’ health.
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This week on the Georgia Health Report, we discuss new additions to a DeKalb clinic aimed at addressing cases of tuberculosis.
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This week on the Georgia Health Report, we're looking at how Georgia and the rest of the states could be affected by President Donald Trump's massive tax and spending bill, recently signed into law.
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This week on the Georgia Health Report, hosts Mary Ryan Howarth and KFF Atlanta's Renuka Rayasam discuss President Trump's megabill, which is expected to introduce Medicaid work requirements across the nation. What Georgia's Pathways Program suggests.
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Coming up on the Georgia Health Report, Host Emma Auer is joined by Rebecca Grapevine of Healthbeat.
