15 Best NPR Health Podcasts

1. 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 Hosts Dr. Jillian Woodruff, Dr. Justin Clark, Prentiss Pemberton
Producer/Network Alaska Public Media
Email ****@alaskapublic.org
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 14Facebook 60.9KTwitter 33.9KInstagram 17.7K Avg Length 56 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. 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 Host Dr. Joe Sirven
Producer/Network WJCT Public Media
Email ****@asu.edu
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 14Facebook 21.9KTwitter 4.1K Avg Length 53 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

3. 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
Producer/Network Life Kit
Email ****@npr.org
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 404Twitter 15.6K Avg Length 19 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

4. Zorba Paster On Your Health

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Wisconsin and the World.
Hosts Dr. Zorba Paster, Karl Christenson
Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
Email ****@wpr.org
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 66Facebook 15.1KTwitter 1KInstagram 8.2M Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

5. 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 Host Gabby Hiestand Salgado
Producer/Network KYUK
Email ****@kyuk.org
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Avg Length 31 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

6. 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 Host Bobbi Conner
Producer/Network Bobbi Conner
Email ****@scpublicradio.org
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Apple Rating 3.7/5Apple Reviews 5Facebook 24.4KInstagram 6.4K Avg Length 4 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

7. 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
Email ****@wdiy.org
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Facebook 6.2KTwitter 2.8KInstagram 3.1K Avg Length 30 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. 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 Host Dr. Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs
Email ****@semo.edu
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9. 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. The series launched in January 2000 and is available at no charge to public radio stations nationwide. It is a unique project offered by University of Florida Health in association with the UF radio stations 89.1 WUFT-FM and 90.1 WJUF-FM. It currently airs in more than 53 cities in 18 states and Washington, D.C., in addition to being available on NPR...MORE Producer/Network UF Health
Email ****@ufl.edu
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1Facebook 7.5KTwitter 4.7KInstagram 3.8K Avg Length 2 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

10. 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
Email ****@kcrw.org
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 2.2KFacebook 210.2KTwitter 396.2KInstagram 222.2K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

11. 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 Hosts Kennedy Krieger, Dr. Bradley Schlaggar
Producer/Network WYPR Baltimore
Email ****@wypr.org
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 10Facebook 33.1KTwitter 6.8KInstagram 9.1K Avg Length 34 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

12. 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
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 17Facebook 320Twitter 707Instagram 159 Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

13. 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
Email ****@kbbi.org
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Facebook 5.5KTwitter 187Instagram 1.4K Avg Length 37 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

14. 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
Email ****@kmuw.org
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1Facebook 7.8MTwitter 7.8MInstagram 8.2M Avg Length 2 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

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
Email ****@ttu.edu
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 1Facebook 8.3KTwitter 2.2KInstagram 3K Avg Length 13 min Format Short form Get Email Contact