# Melissa Anne

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S2.E2. MAHA Strategy Part 2: Realigning Whose Incentives?

The MAHA Commission's September 2025 Strategy Report laid out four pillars for tackling childhood chronic disease. Today Jamie and Melissa Anne are digging into Pillar 2: "Realigning Incentives" — a sprawling grab-bag of food labeling, sunscreen modernization, dietary guidelines, synthetic dye phas…

S2.E3. MAHA Strategy Part 3.1: Increasing Public Awareness and Knowledge

HHS calls the third pillar of the MAHA strategy "Increasing Public Awareness and Knowledge"—a plan to empower parents and restore trust in public health. Jamie and Melissa Anne read the fine print and find the bootstraps myth woven throughout: sixteen-plus awareness campaigns built almost entirely …

S2.E10. Are We Really Experiencing More Foodborne Illness in the US?

Cyclospora. Salmonella. Listeria. E. coli. It has felt like a relentless summer of foodborne illness headlines. So Jamie and Melissa Anne went looking for the actual data. In this episode, we trace how an outbreak is actually discovered. We break down which federal agency picks up which food (USDA …

S2.E11. The Science of Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton has died at 80, and the tributes have poured in from every corner of American life — country music, film, business, Appalachia. We wanted to write a different kind of tribute. As nurse scientists, Jamie and Melissa Anne dig into not just what made Dolly's philanthropy extraordinary, bu…

S2.E13. A Little Breather + A Season Update

We're taking a short hiatus — and using it to bring back the episode where we talk about how it all started. We've had a lot happen since we launched Nursing the Nation. Melissa Anne defended her dissertation in August and started a full-time assistant professor position a week later. Jamie has ent…

S2.E14. Ethics, Values, Politics: Why Nursing is All Three

A professional nursing organization recently drew a line between policy and politics, and said nurses belong on one side of it. We disagree, and this replay explains why. In this episode, Jamie and Melissa Anne provide an update to the conversation that started the show: what led each of us into nu…

S2.E15. Shout Out Saturday: Dena Bushman

It's the first Shout Out Saturday of Season Two, and Jamie and Melissa Anne spotlight nurse practitioner and epidemiologist Dena Bushman. A CDC-trained medical epidemiologist and lieutenant commander in the U.S. Public Health Service, Bushman built her career inside federal public health—until she …

S2.E20 The One Big Beautiful Healthcare Series, Part 4: I Have Private Insurance, so why should I care?

Have insurance through work, or Medicare? The One Big Beautiful Bill Act still reaches you. In Part 4 of our OBBBA series, Jamie and Melissa Anne explain why you don't need a Medicaid card to depend on Medicaid. We cover CBO's projection of 10 million more uninsured by 2034, what expiring marketpla…