On the next episode of Kentucky Health, Dr. Wayne Tuckson talks with Dr. Steven Stack, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Public Health, about other urgent public health concerns in Kentucky, aside from the COVID-19 epidemic, and how his office is addressing them.

Kentucky Health: Obesity, Diabetes, Lung Diseases and Other Healthcare Problems in Kentucky airs Sunday, Feb. 13, at 12:30 pm/11:30 am on KET and Monday, Feb. 14, at 2/1 pm on KET2. 

Kentucky Health is a weekly KET program that seeks to improve the people’s health through education and increased awareness. Kentucky Health is hosted by Dr. Wayne Tuckson, a colorectal surgeon in Louisville, and produced by Laura Krueger.

KET is Kentucky’s largest classroom, where learning comes to life for more than one million people each week via television, online and mobile. Learn more about Kentucky’s preeminent public media organization at KET.org, on Twitter @KET and at facebook.com/KET.