20 Best NPR Health Podcasts

1. Zorba Paster On Your Health

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.
Podcast wpr.org
Email ****@wpr.org
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 11.2KTwitter Followers 1.2KInstagram Followers 6.8M Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 53 min Listen on Apple Play 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 Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. What's Health Got to Do with It?

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.
Podcast news.wjct.org
Email ****@wjct.org
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 18.2KTwitter Followers 3.3K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 54 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

3. Health in a Heartbeat

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.
Podcast podcasts.ufhealth.org
Email ****@wuft.org
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 5.9KTwitter Followers 5.1KInstagram Followers 2.9K Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 3 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

4. Life Kit | Health

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.
Podcast npr.org/lifekit
Email ****@npr.org
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5 Frequency 1 episode / day Avg Length 19 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

5. HealthBEAT

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.
Podcast wdiy.org
Host WDIY
Email ****@wdiy.org
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 4.2KTwitter Followers 2.7KInstagram Followers 2.1K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 30 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

6. Your Child's Brain

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.
Podcast kennedykrieger.org
Email ****@wypr.org
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 31.2KInstagram Followers 6.1K Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 33 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

7. Health Focus

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.
Podcast southcarolinapublicradio.org
Email ****@scpublicradio.org
Apple Rating 3.7 / 5Facebook Followers 19.2KInstagram Followers 2.8K Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 4 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

8. Wellness Wednesday

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.
Podcast npr.org
Email ****@kyuk.org
Frequency 1 episode / month Avg Length 30 min Play Get Email Contact

9. To Your Health

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.
Podcast npr.org
Email ****@semo.edu
Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 2 min Play Get Email Contact

10. Mental Health Matters

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.
Podcast npr.org
Email ****@kmuw.org
Facebook Followers 7.6MInstagram Followers 6.8M Frequency 1 episode / week Avg Length 2 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

11. Bodies

'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.
Podcast kcrw.com
Email ****@kcrw.org
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 211.1KTwitter Followers 495.1KInstagram Followers 173.7K Frequency 8 episodes / year Avg Length 33 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

12. Relax, It's Retirement Podcast

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.
Podcast npr.org
Email ****@alaskapublic.org
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 7.6MInstagram Followers 6.8M Frequency 24 episodes / year Avg Length 59 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

13. Prognosis Ohio

The podcast shines a light on a wide range of health and health care issues, from changing legislative developments; to stories of Ohioans interacting with their state's healthcare system; to ongoing challenges in housing, food, transportation, and other systems that relate to health outcomes; to research, advocacy, and activism.
Podcast npr.org
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 627 Frequency 3 episodes / quarter Avg Length 32 min Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

14. The Daily Dose

An evening roundup of WYPR's latest reporting on Maryland's COVID-19 response, a summary of essential state and local updates, and a forum for locals who want to share stories about everyday life in the era of Coronavirus.
Podcast wypr.org
Email ****@wypr.org
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 11.6KTwitter Followers 25.9KInstagram Followers 4.9K Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

15. COVID Brief

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.
Podcast npr.org
Hosts Jay Barrett, Jeff
Email ****@kbbi.org
Facebook Followers 5.2KTwitter Followers 101Instagram Followers 1.4K Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

16. Rural Healthcare

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.
Podcast npr.org
Email ****@ttu.edu
Facebook Followers 6KTwitter Followers 1.9KInstagram Followers 2.4K Play Get Email Contact