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Health & Veritas — 228 episodes
Science, Policy, and Power
Mark Siegel: The Craft of Teaching Doctors
Live at the Yale Innovation Summit 2026
Nicholas Christakis: The Science of Human Connection
Who Gets to Shape Healthcare?
Josh Geballe: Building Yale's Innovation Engine
Lee Schwamm: Onboarding AI at the Hospital
Wolfram Goessling: Lessons from the Other Side of Cancer
Trust, Truth, and Moral Distress
Stephen Latham: The End of Irreversibility
Deborah Proctor: Help That Endures
Selwyn Rogers: Bearing Witness to Violence
Arya Singh: Beyond Accessibility
Vaccines, Cholesterol, and Other News
Kevin Billingsley: The Making of the Modern Surgeon
Kevin Sheth: Innovation Toward a Healthier Brain
Janet Currie: Investing in Kids
Evangelos Oikonomou: Decoding the Hidden Signals of Heart Disease
Joel Hirschhorn: How Genes Add Up
Measles Outbreaks, Preventative Cardiology, and Other News
Robert Wachter: AI Is Already Remaking Healthcare
Mary-Ann Etiebet: Confronting Preventable Disease
Jonathan Cohn: Health Policy in the Age of MAHA
Sara Rosenbaum: Expanding Coverage, One Step at a Time
Ania Jastreboff: Treating Obesity Without Shame
Julie Rovner: On the Health Policy Beat
Ezekiel Emanuel: Ice Cream and Other Keys to a Long Life
An Ongoing Conversation about Health and Healthcare
Basmah Safdar: Why Women Experience Illness Differently
Sudhakar Nuti: Bringing Healthcare to the Unhoused
Peter Hotez: Mapping the Anti-Science Machine
The Cost Curve, Flu, and Other News
Jerry Avorn: Countering the Drug Marketing Machine
Ali Rahimi: A Cardiologist in Your Pocket
Nate Wood: Cooking Lessons for Better Health
Akiko Iwasaki: What Have We Learned About Long COVID?
Rajlakshmi Krishnamurthy: Coordinated Care, Better Care
Crowded Emergency Rooms and Other News
Vanessa Cooper: The Science of Headaches
Kate Heilpern: Jumping into the Deep End
Barry Wu: The Questions to Ask the Elderly
Eric Topol: The Keys to Healthy Aging
Science, Politics, and Personality
Katelyn Jetelina: A Visit from Your Local Epidemiologist
Seth Berkowitz: The Power Problem
Azita Emami: Educating Nurse-Leaders
America's Healthcare Paradox and Other News
Stephen Waxman: Easing the Horrors of Chronic Pain
The 'Big Beautiful Bill' and Other News
Sarah DeSilvey: Creating Space for Healing
Dave Chokshi: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Pandemic
Live at the Yale Innovation Summit 2025
Rebekah Gee: Improving Health, One Family at a Time
James Dodington: Protecting Kids from Gun Violence
Thomas Gill: The Secrets to an Active Old Age
Joel Bervell: The Healthcare Communicator
Afib, AI Agents, and Other News
Deepak D'Souza: Perils of Cannabis and Promise of Psychedelics
Evan Sussman: Expanding Access to Fertility Drugs
Alexi Nazem: Building Healthcare Solutions
Ryan Schwarz: Thinking Differently about the Primary Care Crisis
Mark McClellan: An Economic Lens on Healthcare
Aging in Bursts and Other News
Sarah Taylor: The Science of Breastfeeding
Michael Dunne: Confronting the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis
Paul Lombardo: Reckoning with the Dark History of Eugenics
Deborah Rhodes: A Breast-Cancer Screening Breakthrough
The AI in the Doctor's Office and Other News
Lisa Rosenbaum: Medicine, Well-Being, and Victimhood
Susan Mayne: Keeping Food Safe
Sachin Jain: Has Managed Care Lost Its Way?
Perverse Incentives in Healthcare and Other News
Dana Dunne: Learning to Learn
Jaewon Ryu: The Power of Integrated Care
Aaron Kesselheim: Law, Policy, and Health
Vin Gupta: Impact at Scale
Halle Tecco: Investing in Women's Health
Rahul Rajkumar: Intensive Home-Based Care for High-Need Patients
Medicine-Life Balance and Other News
Stephen Knight: Investing in Biotech Solutions
Michael Sherling: Building a Better Electronic Health Record
The Physician Shortage and Other News
Max Laurans: An Entrepreneurial Life in Medicine
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Crises and Common Ground
Boosters, Brain Age, and Other News
Ania Jastreboff: The Transformative Obesity Drugs
Margaret McGovern: Building an Integrated Health System
Lee Schwamm: Smarter Healthcare Systems With AI
Joshua Sharfstein: Policy and Health
Kate Goodrich: A Better Model for Care
Timothy Westmoreland: Healthcare at the Supreme Court
An HIV Breakthrough and Other News
Lisa Suter: Medicine, Measurement, and Equity
Anna Reisman: Bringing the Humanities to Medicine
Mitesh Rao: Democratizing Healthcare Data
Live at the Yale Innovation Summit
Chima Ndumele: Reinventing Medicaid
Ruth Katz: Crafting Landmark Legislation
Greg Licholai: Breaking through the Innovation Bottleneck
The Primary Care Crisis and Other News
Arthur Caplan: Medicine's Toughest Ethical Questions
Scott Berkowitz: Value-Based Care and Population Health
Atheendar Venkataramani: Opportunity, Hope, and Health
Kate McEvoy: How Medicaid Is Driving Healthcare Innovation
Margo Harrison: Women's Health as a Path to Empowerment
Zack Cooper: High Healthcare Costs: Who Pays, Who Benefits
Robert Alpern: Creating an Inspired Medical School
Robert Rohrbaugh: Bringing Antiracist Tools to Clinical Practice
A Cheating Scandal, Abandoned Research, and Other News
Lucila Ohno-Machado: AI and the Art of Medicine
Farzad Mostashari: Aligning Incentives to Fix Primary Care
Christopher O'Connor: Hospital Leadership in Trying Times
Manisha Juthani: Solving Infectious Disease Mysteries
Claudine Litman: Designing Better Healthcare Solutions
Reshma Ramachandran: Will the Supreme Court Upend Healthcare Regulation?
Another Winter Wave, and Other News
Julie Ann Sosa: Personalizing Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
Eric Winer: A Cancer Doctor's Journey
Tina Loarte-Rodríguez: Understanding Inequities in Healthcare
Tara Sanft: Life after Cancer
Stephanie Sudikoff: The Power of Medical Simulation
Jerold Mande: Our Food Is Making Us Sick
John Morton: The State of Obesity Treatment
Dhruv Khullar: The Physician-Journalist
Melinda Pettigrew: The Battle Against Antimicrobial Resistance
The Latest on COVID-19 Vaccines, and Other News
Katherine Baicker: Rigorous Thinking about Hard Problems
Peter Salovey: A More Unified, Accessible, and Innovative Yale
Marc Auerbach: Getting Emergency Departments Kid-Ready
An Inspiring Nobel Win and Other News
Mallika Mendu: Improving Operations
Nita Ahuja: Epigenetics and Cancer
Peter Hotez: Opposing the Anti-Science Movement
Ted Long: A Model for Effective Primary Care
Zhenqiu Lin: Measuring Quality, Improving Care
Best of Health & Veritas, Summer 2023
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Building a Culture of Health
Alan Friedman: To Err Is Human
Melissa Davis: Can a Radiologist Trust AI?
Julius Chapiro: Minimally Invasive Liver Cancer Treatment
Dawn Harris Sherling: What Food Additives Are Doing to Your Microbiome
Hil Moss: The Gap in Care for Cancer Survivors
Sejal Hathi: Serving the Public
David Fiellin: The Treatments Changing the Lives of People with Opioid Addictions
Abbe Gluck: The Legal Determinants of Health
Sandeep Jauhar: A Witness to Dementia
Albert Ko: A Journey in Public Health
Joseph Sakran: Confronting Gun Violence
Josh Geballe: Turning Yale Innovation into Startups
Amanda Skinner: Navigating Reproductive Care after Roe
Elizabeth Arleo: Advice for Working Mothers from a Women's Health Specialist
Megan Ranney: What's Next for Public Health?
Cary Gross: Effective Cancer Screening
Michael Alosco: The Toll of Repetitive Head Impacts
Helen Burstin: Research with an Impact
Michael Ivy: Doctors and Mental Health
Harlan Krumholz, This Is Your Life
Ami Parekh: Tools for Navigating Care
Brita Roy: Leveraging Community Resources for Better Health
Anna Kaltenboeck: Untangling Drug Prices
Tara Lagu: The Doctor Won't See You Now
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: The CEO Whisperer
Countering COVID Revisionism
Leora Horwitz: Toward a Continuously Learning Healthcare System
Gil Addo: Building a Model for Virtual Specialty Care
Healthcare Headlines
F. Perry Wilson: The Formula for Medical Misinformation
Lisa Sanders: The Art of Diagnosis
Jeffrey Gruen: The Genetic Roots of Learning Disabilities
Kristen Nwanyanwu: Vision and Equity
Dr. Eric Topol: Pushing Medicine into the Future
Dr. Nancy Brown: The Power of Mentorship
Dr. Vineet Arora: Reinventing Medical Education
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith: The Systemic Roots of Inequities in Health
Dr. Lisa Leffert: Leading in Anesthesiology
Nicholas Christakis: The Better Angels of Our Nature
Dr. Utibe Essien: Who Gets Access to Innovative Treatments?
Taking the Pulse
Dr. Ania Jastreboff: The Revolution in Obesity Medication
Ingrid Nembhard: Improving Healthcare Organizations to Improve Health
Jonathan Rothberg: The Scientist-Entrepreneur
Dr. Jeremy Faust: Is COVID Over? It's Complicated.
Dr. Esther Choo: The View from the Emergency Department
Beating the Outbreaks
Dr. James Hamblin: Should You Stop Washing?
Teresa Chahine: The Social Entrepreneur's Guide to Making Change
Jennifer Miller: Scoring the Ethics of Pharma Companies
Rethinking Research
Dr. Rebekah Gee: Can We Bring Family Healthcare to the Home?
Gregg Gonsalves: An Inspiring Nonlinear Path to Impact
Your Co-Host's Remarkable Career
Dr. Seth Trueger: When the Doctor Becomes a Patient
Thomas Balcezak: Can Hospitals Recover from COVID-19?
Dr. Amy Justice: Unlocking the Insights in Healthcare Data
Jason Schwartz: Building a Better Vaccine Policy
Dr. Cecelia Calhoun: Taking on Systemic Inequities
Dr. Gail D'Onofrio: Grappling with the Opioid Epidemic
Melinda Irwin: Can Nutrition and Exercise Improve Cancer Outcomes?
Sherry Glied: Getting Ready for the Next Pandemic
Lauren Taylor: Ethics and Public Health
Zeke Emanuel's Provocative Advice on Making Healthcare Better
Dr. Daniel Stein: What the Data Says about Your Doctor
Edward Kaplan: What Does Wastewater Reveal about COVID-19?
Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti: Hope for Sickle Cell Patients
Dr. Kristin Mattocks: Advancing the Health of Women Veterans
Dr. Mandy Cohen: Delivering Health, Not Just Healthcare
Dr. Ijeoma Opara: Partnering with a Community
Dr. Saad Omer: Lessons Learned about Vaccine Hesitancy
Dr. Emily Wang: Mass Incarceration and Health
Dr. Akiko Iwasaki: Is Long COVID One Disease or Many?
Dr. Randi Epstein: Medical Storytelling
Nathan Grubaugh: Genomic Surveillance
From COVID or with COVID?
Anne Wyllie: The Latest on Omicron
Dr. Albert Ko: A Wider View of COVID-19
Fiona Scott Morton: Taming Healthcare Costs
Liza Fisher: Long COVID
Dr. Joseph Ross: Omicron; The Drug Approval Process
Dr. Rohan Khera: AI, Machine Learning, and Medicine
Jason Abaluck: Health Economics
Anne Wyllie: The Saliva Test
Dr. Mary-Ann Etiebet: Saving Mothers' Lives
Elizabeth Bradley: Leading Vassar through COVID-19
Dr. Erica Spatz: Shared Decision-Making
Why Are We Paying for Ineffective Treatments?
Will AI Transform Radiology?
Medical Education
Boosters and Nocebos