In honor of National Public Health Week 2025, please check out this special episode of Healthy Maine Talks featuring a real example of public health in action in Maine's communities. Jennifer Gunderman, MPH,  Director of Public...

In this "in the field" episode of Healthy Maine Talks, Barrett Takesian, Executive Director of

Welcome to the first installment of our new Pollinator Series on Healthy Maine Talks! We're taking HMT on the road across Maine to meet people and talk about what public health means to them in their communities. This episode covers...

Dr. Dora Mills, Chief Health Improvement Officer at MaineHealth, joins Healthy Maine Talks for this month's episode. Dr. Mills, a longtime champion for health and former Maine CDC Director, shares some history about Maine's public health system...

Tune in for this special episode featuring Nafeesha Mitchell, Program Leader with the Groundwater Institute and the Principal of B² Consulting. Matt and Nafeesha dig into the dynamics of power...

Dr. Amy Mayhew, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, joins Healthy Maine Talks to discuss the impact of high potency cannabis use among young people in Maine.According to Dr. Mayhew, high potency cannabis use can alter a young person's br...

Check out this year-end episode of Healthy Maine Talks, featuring reflections on MPHA's 40th annual conference from some of the attendees, as well as an interview with Ed Miller--longtime board member and one of the signers of the MPHA's articl...

Neil Kiely, CEO of Androscoggin Bank, joins Healthy Maine Talks to share how the bank, a Certified B Corporation, leverages its networks and resources to drive community benefit across Maine. Tune in to hear Matt and Neil ...

Don Hoppert, Director of Government Relations for the American Public Health Association, joins Matt for this special post-election episode of Healthy Maine Talks. Don gives his perspective on the potential implications the election results wil...

For this month's episode Kara Kaikini, MS, IBCLC, Executive Director of the Maine State Breastfeeding Coalition, joins Healthy Maine Talks. Kara digs into the wide range of benefits that breastfeeding has for parent and child, and describes the...

We're excited to welcome back our first ever returning guest to Healthy Maine Talks, Ambassador Maulian Bryant! This episode was recorded before the news officially broke that Ambassador Bryant has been tapped to lead the

Evan Murray, Civic Engagement Director of the

In this month's episode, Jennifer Hutchins, Executive Director of the Maine Association of Nonprofits, shares MANP's vision for how we can support nonprofit organizations t...

Welcome to our second special episode of Healthy Maine Talks focused on PFAS (recorded Friday, August 23rd). Background:On Monday, August 19th, more than a thousand gallons of

On Monday, August 19th, more than a thousand gallons of AFFF fire fighting foam containing high concentrations of PFAS-- a class of "forever chemicals" associated with

In this episode Matt speaks with Gabriela Alcalde MPH, DrPH, Executive Director of the Sewall Foundation. Gabriela shares Sewall's theory of change and how the foundation went through a radi...

For this bonus episode of the podcast, Matt sits down with Anna Krueger, MS, an epidemiologist at the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention, to discuss H5N1, otherwise known as avian flu. *This Healthy Maine Talks e...

Rose Lundy, a public health reporter at the Maine Monitor, walks Matt through her groundbreaking series that investigated Maine's long-...

For this month's episode, Matt speaks to Shelley Hearne, DrPH, the Deans Sommer and Klag Professor of the Practice in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the Lerner Center for Public Health Advoc...

Sarah Alexander from the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) joins Matt to discuss how we can incentivize local, organic food production that supports and nourishes communities.  To learn more check out

For this bonus episode of Healthy Maine Talks, Matt sits down with Barry Chaffin, co-founder and managing partner of Nova Analytic Labs, one of a handful of certified, licensed cannabis testing facilities in Maine. Barry and Matt discus...

For this month's episode, Heather Paquette, new President of Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine, and Laura Vinal, Senior Manager of Community Initiatives, join Matt to discuss food insecurity, an issue that intersects health, nutrition and commun...

Jennifer Boothroyd, MPA, CCP, Manager of Sustainability at Northern Light Health, joins Healthy Maine Talks to discuss climate resiliency and what that means for Maine's health systems. Jen digs into Northern Light Health's climate resi...

Adam Nordell, Campaign Manager at Defend Our Health and previous owner of Songbird Farm in Unity, Maine, joins the podcast to share his experience with severe PFAS contamination on his farm and how it's impacted his family and livelihood. <...

"All you have to do is make a little time and open the door. The kids will lead the way and show you how to play."--Alicia Heyburn, Executive Director of Teens to Trails. Tune into the episode to hear how