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. Jillian Woodruff, Dr. Justin Clark and Prentiss Pemberton and their guests 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 child care, mental health, nutrition, pharmacology, surgery and more. Callers can talk one-on-one with each week's guests and are encouraged to send in email questions as well.MORE Producer/Network Alaska Public Media
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 54.8KTwitter 33.4KInstagram 13.8K Avg Length 54 min Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com . We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us
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.
Host Marielle Segarra
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3. 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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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 32.3KTwitter 6.8KInstagram 6.7K Avg Length 34 min Get Email Contact
4. 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.Transcript (PDF) available upon request. Please include the title or topic of the podcast and the date.MORE Producer/Network Bobbi Conner
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5. Zorba Paster On Your Health
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Each week, 'Zorba Paster On Your Health' provides listeners with health and fitness tips to live a full and healthy life. The down-to-earth, personal style makes this call-in show as entertaining as it is informative. 'Zorba Paster On Your Health' can be heard Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. and again from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on The Ideas Network or anytime on the WPR app . You can also find the podcast on major platforms.MORE Producer/Network Wisconsin Public Radio
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 14.2KTwitter 1.1KInstagram 7.2M Get Email Contact
6. 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.MORE Producer/Network WJCT Public Media
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7. 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 healthcare 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 the University of Florida Health in association with the UF radio stations 89.1 WUFT-FM and 90.1 WJUF-FM.MORE Producer/Network UF Health
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8. 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.
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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. HealthBEAT
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WDIY's Greg Capogna with Edward Meehan 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, Greg and Edward 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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'What's wrong with me?' Each episode of this documentary series begins as a medical mystery. But once you peel back the layers, more questions emerge.
Host Allison Behringer
Producer/Network KCRW, Allison Behringer
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 209.8KTwitter 464.1KInstagram 188.5K 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
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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.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 | |||
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 | 8.4M | ||
Karl Christenson | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | 14 | @drzorba | 1.1K | ||
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 | ||
migrator | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | 6 | @drzorba | 1.1K | ||
WJCT Public Media | news.wjct.org/show/whats-health-got-to-do-with-it | 3 | @jsirven | 4K | ||
lee.rayburn | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | 2 | @drzorba | 1.1K | ||
karl.christenson | wpr.org/shows/zorba-paster-your-health | 2 | @drzorba | 1.1K | ||
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 20 Brain Health Podcasts
- Best 5 WJCT Podcasts
- Best 30 NPR News Podcasts
- Best 10 Prognosis Podcasts
- Best 10 Ohio Health Podcasts
- Best 30 Florida Health Podcasts
- Best 15 Florida Medical Podcasts
- Best 10 WUFT Podcasts
- Best 20 Wellbeing Podcasts
- Best 5 South Carolina Health Podcasts
- Best 50 Health Podcasts