WUGA Health Desk

Friday afternoon at 5:44 p.m. and Sunday afternoons at 5:35 p.m.
  • Hosted by Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller
  • Lauren Baggett
    Lauren Baggett
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The WUGA Health Desk presents a weekly program, Georgia Health Report, focused on health news and issues facing Georgians. The program features news and commentary from Andy Miller of Georgia Health News and is hosted by UGA College of Public Health health writer Lauren Baggett. 

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Healthy Aerobic Ability in Middle School Girls

By Lauren Baggett • Nov 23, 2020

This week on Georgia Health Report, hosts Grace Bagwell Adams and Andy Miller discuss the public health issue of healthy aerobic ability among middle-school-aged girls.

COVID and Racial Disparities in Georgia

By lauren baggett • Nov 13, 2020

This week on the Georgia Health Report, guest host Grace Bagwell Adams and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss COVID 19 and racial disparities in Georgia. What's behind the high death rate of people of color in Georgia?

Housing for Transplant Patients and Caregivers

By Lauren Baggett • Nov 9, 2020

This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss how a grieving family created a foundation for helping organ transplant patients and their caregivers find a place to live near their transplant hospital

Trauma Cases Increase Since the Pandemic Began

By Lauren Baggett • Oct 23, 2020

This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss how several major Georgia hospitals report an increase in trauma cases -- from car accidents to gunshot wounds to bicycle crashes -- since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

A New Supreme Court Justice and the ACA

By Lauren Baggett • Oct 23, 2020

This week on the Georgia Health Report, host Lauren Baggett and Andy Miller of Georgia Health News discuss the upcoming Supreme Court case challenging the Affordable Care Act. Will key elements of the program be declared unconstitutional? And will the nomination of a new Supreme Court justice influence the outcome?

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