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Metro Health Matters Podcast
Explore the most pressing health challenges facing the region and the solutions taking shape to address them.
Metro Health Matters brings you conversations with the people, organizations, and communities working to improve health across Metro Atlanta. Through engaging discussions with community leaders, community health workers, healthcare partners, researchers, and other changemakers, the podcast explores the most pressing health challenges facing the region and the solutions taking shape to address them.
Each episode highlights local perspectives, promising approaches, and the power of collaboration to advance health equity and create lasting systems change. Tune in to hear what’s working, what we’re learning, and how partners across the region are coming together to build a healthier, more equitable Metro Atlanta.​
Episode 1: Redlining in Atlanta​
In this episode of Metro Health Matters, presented by ARCHI, host Jeff Smythe sits down with Dr. Tabia Akintobi of Morehouse School of Medicine for a timely conversation about redlining, community-centered public health, and the ongoing relationship between place, policy, and health in Metro Atlanta.
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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Together, they explore how historic housing discrimination shaped neighborhood investment, wealth-building opportunities, access to resources, and health outcomes—and why those impacts continue to show up today.
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Dr. Akintobi also discusses what it means to move from community participation to community leadership, how ARCHI’s concept of “inverting the burden” connects to health equity, and what it would take to repair structural harms in ways that are truly community-centered. This conversation invites public health leaders, healthcare systems, community organizations, policymakers, and residents to think beyond programs and toward long-term systems change rooted in collaboration, accountability, and local leadership.