15 Best NPR Health Podcasts
NPR Health Podcasts
Here are 15 Best NPR Health Podcasts worth listening to in 2025. Subscribe in one place on FeedSpot Reader.
Play All Episodes Follow All1. Line One: Your Health Connection
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Hosts Dr. Justin Clark, Dr. Jillian Woodruff and Prentiss Pemberton discuss a variety of health-related topics during this live call-in show. Line One features local physicians and national subject experts from the fields of nutrition, childcare, surgery, and mental health issues.MORE Producer/Network Alaska Public Media
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2. Life Kit: Health
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Taking care of yourself shouldn't be complicated. We talk to the experts for practical advice to live a long and healthy life, based on science. Updated every time Life Kit posts an episode on health and wellness.Want another life hack? Try Life Kit . Your subscription supports the show and unlocks an exclusive sponsor-free feed. Learn more at plus.npr.org/lifekitMORE Host Marielle Segarra
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3. Health Focus
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Doctors, medical professionals and researchers from the Medical University of South Carolina will be featured weekly in a series of radio interviews on South Carolina Public Radio called Health Focus. Award winning public broadcaster Bobbi Conner will host this series of health and medical features, covering a wide array of topics. Health Focus is a production of the Medical University of South Carolina in partnership with South Carolina Public Radio.MORE Producer/Network Bobbi Conner
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4. Your Child's Brain
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Each month Your Child's Brain will bring together experts in child brain health, including researchers, educators, physicians and therapists as well as families to discuss contemporary topics about child and youth brain health and development.Your Child's Brain is produced by Kennedy Krieger Institute with assistance from WYPR.MORE Producer/Network WYPR Baltimore
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5. What's Health Got to Do with It?
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What's Health Got to Do with It? is a weekly talk program that examines where healthcare intersects with daily life, and will help guide the listeners through an increasingly convoluted medical bureaucracy. These days, health is a lot more than Googling the latest medical breakthrough or seeing your doctor. Staying healthy when you are well and getting healthy when you are sick means knowing how to interact and navigate an incredibly complex healthcare system.MORE Producer/Network WJCT Public Media
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6. Zorba Paster On Your Health
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7. Wellness Wednesday
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Wellness Wednesday is a talk show about health and wellness throughout the Y-K Delta that features health care providers from Bethel, the Y-K Delta region and beyond. The program airs at 10:00 a.m. every Wednesday with hosts from YKHC, Tundra Women's Coalition, and more.MORE Producer/Network KYUK
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8. Health in a Heartbeat
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Health in a Heartbeat is a daily radio series that features two-minute segments providing consumer-health information and the latest news on medical research, patient-care breakthroughs and health-care industry trends.MORE Producer/Network UF Health
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9. Mental Health Matters
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This series by Eric Litwiller of the Mental Health Association of South Central Kansas looks at mental health in the Wichita area. It is in conjunction with the Wichita Journalism Collaborative.MORE Producer/Network KMUW
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10. The Well-Being Report
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WDIY's Margaret McConnell with Dr. Samantha Shaak of the Leonard Parker Pool Institute for Health host monthly roundtable discussions on the social determinants of health and the impact on communities here in the Lehigh Valley and beyond. With special guests, Margaret and Dr. Shaak present ways to encourage healthier community outcomes with wide-ranging conversations about food security, early education and stable, affordable housing.MORE Host WDIY
Producer/Network WDIY 88.1 FM
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11. To Your Health
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Every Thursday, Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs provides health information you can trust. With trustworthy sources, she explores the fact and fiction surrounding various medical conditions and treatments, makes you aware of upcoming screenings, gives you prevention strategies, and more all to your health.MORE Email ****@semo.edu
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12. Bodies
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Each episode of this documentary series begins with a medical mystery. Sometimes the sickness is in the body, and sometimes the sickness is in the system. Once you peel back the layers, more questions emerge. Created by Allison Behringer and supported by KCRW.MORE Host Allison Behringer
Producer/Network KCRW, Allison Behringer
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 208.5KTwitter 464.1KInstagram 190.8K Avg Length 33 min Get Email Contact
13. Prognosis Ohio
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A podcast about all things health and health care in Ohio, part of the WCBE Podcast Experience and Health Podcast Network. Hosted by health policy professor, Dan Skinner. Collaborations with the Center for Community Solutions and the Ohio Journal of Public Health.MORE Producer/Network Prognosis Ohio
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14. COVID Brief
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The COVID-19 Brief is a weekly live, call-in show with the Homer Unified Command-The City of Homer, South Peninsula Hospital, AK Department of Public Health, and Kenai Peninsula Borough School District- to update the community on the local Covid-19 situation.MORE Hosts Jay Barrett, Jeff
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15. Rural Healthcare: The Other Texas Drought
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Rural communities in Texas have struggled to keep up in the fight against the coronavirus. The Texas Newsroom examines the shortage of health care resources people living in those communities face. This reporting is done in partnership with The Texas Newsroom—a collaboration among Texas public radio stations and NPR—and is funded in part by PBS FRONTLINE's Local Journalism Initiative, with support from the Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.MORE Producer/Network Texas Tech Public Media | Jayme Lozano, Bonnie Petrie, Kaysie Ellingson
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NPR Health shows hosts and producers
Podcaster Name | Role | Podcast Link | Total Episodes | Twitter Handle | Twitter Followers | |
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Marielle Segarra | Host | npr.org/lifekit | 191 | |||
Dr. Zorba Paster | Co Host | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | 2 | @drzorba | ||
Karl Christenson | Co Host | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | 2 | |||
WDIY | Host | wdiy.org | 2 | @wdiyfm | ||
Allison Behringer | Host | kcrw.com/culture/shows/bodies | @albtweetin | 3.5K | ||
Jay Barrett | Host | npr.org/podcasts/1049844859/c-o-v-i-d-brief | ||||
Jeff | Host | npr.org/podcasts/1049844859/c-o-v-i-d-brief | ||||
UF Health | podcasts.ufhealth.org/category/health-in-a-heartbeat | 179 | @wuftmedia | 5K | ||
Bobbi Conner | southcarolinapublicradio.org/show/health-focus | 64 | @medunivsc | |||
Alaska Public Media | npr.org/podcasts/1118798578/line-one-your-health-connection | 41 | ||||
Dr. Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs | npr.org/podcasts/474840308/k-r-c-u-s-to-your-health | 30 | ||||
KYUK | npr.org/podcasts/743266771/wellness-wednesday | 22 | ||||
Eric Litwiller | npr.org/podcasts/1102479800/mental-health-matters | 18 | @npr | 8.3M | ||
Stacey Bennett | news.wjct.org/show/whats-health-got-to-do-with-it | 13 | @jsirven | 4K | ||
Kathy Waterman | news.wjct.org/show/whats-health-got-to-do-with-it | 12 | @jsirven | 4K | ||
WYPR Baltimore | kennedykrieger.org/stories/your-childs-brain-podcast | 6 | @kennedykrieger | 6.8K | ||
WJCT Public Media | news.wjct.org/show/whats-health-got-to-do-with-it | 3 | @jsirven | 4K | ||
Daria Mironova | news.wjct.org/show/whats-health-got-to-do-with-it | 2 | @jsirven | 4K | ||
Dan Skinner | npr.org/podcasts/981383203/prognosis-ohio | 1 | ||||
Kelila Ritchie | news.wjct.org/show/whats-health-got-to-do-with-it | 1 | @jsirven | 4K | ||
Heather Schatz | news.wjct.org/show/whats-health-got-to-do-with-it | 1 | @jsirven | 4K | ||
Kimberley Smith | podcasts.ufhealth.org/category/health-in-a-heartbeat | 1 | @wuftmedia | 5K |
See Also
- Best 5 WJCT Podcasts
- Best 15 Florida Medical Podcasts
- Best 10 Alaska Health Podcasts
- Best 10 Ohio Health Podcasts
- Best 10 Prognosis Podcasts
- Best 15 Brain Health Podcasts
- Best 30 NPR News Podcasts
- Best 10 WUFT Podcasts
- Best 30 Florida Health Podcasts
- Best 20 Wellbeing Podcasts
- Best 50 Health Podcasts