{"id":43653,"date":"2026-10-01T17:23:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=43653"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T21:27:35","slug":"furmans-shaniece-criss-kerry-sease-headline-the-wellness-files-live-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-shaniece-criss-kerry-sease-headline-the-wellness-files-live-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s Shaniece Criss, Kerry Sease headline &#8216;The Wellness Files&#8217; live podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kari Beal of FOX Carolina News hosted a live podcast on the campus of Furman University Sept. 30 called &#8220;The Wellness Files: Who Was This Medicine Made For?&#8221; The talk, which took place in Younts Conference Center, featured Furman&#8217;s Dr. Shaniece Criss, associate professor of Health Sciences, and Dr. Kerry Sease, executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of Community Health. The panelists discussed representation (or lack thereof) for clinical trials. Beal promoted the event on FOX Carolina&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2026\/09\/28\/join-wellness-files-live-furman-university\/\">Access Carolina<\/a>&#8221; morning show. On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/share\/ddbf6791-968d-4a8f-a843-739d73e421a6\/dfb9d9c3-e052-43e5-a7a6-f0cfa3fb9e13\">Beal spoke with Criss and Sease<\/a> ahead of the event about the importance of inclusion for better health outcomes for all.<\/p>\n<p>TV links are temporary and typically expire after 90 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinical trials are meant to improve health outcomes for all patients. But a lack of representation by women and minorities skews the results. Shaniece Criss and Kerry Sease join Kari Beal of FOX Carolina&#8217;s &#8220;The Wellness Files&#8221; to discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":43655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1569,21,6,65,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-fox-carolina","category-health-sciences","category-in-the-news","category-institute-for-the-advancement-of-community-health","category-pre-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43653"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43661,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43653\/revisions\/43661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}