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Turn on the Lights Podcast — 150 episodes

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Nursing Leadership, Courage, and Public Trust with Dr. Ernest J. Grant

2

Public Health Memory, Prevention, and Preparedness with Dr. Eugene McCray

3

HIV, Stigma, and Trust with Harold Phillips

4

Leading Humans Through Change with Sue Hassmiller

5

The Workforce We Need: Nurses as Healers, Leaders, and the Future of Care with Dr. Beverly Malone

6

A New Season: What Health Care Needs Now

7

Encore Release: The Cost Shifting Cycle Behind Your Rising Premiums

8

Encore Release: Who Sets the Table for Quality Measurement in U.S. Health Care? with Brenna Rabel & Michelle Schreiber

9

Encore release: Medicaid Work Requirements and the Unraveling of Health Coverage with Ben Sommers

10

Encore Release: The Real Reason Training Alone Cannot Fix Patient Safety

11

Encore Release: Beyond Compliance – Vivek Garg on Patient-Centered Quality and Real-Time Improvement

12

A New Chapter: Introducing Philip McAdoo and the Next Season of Turn on the Lights

13

Don Berwick and Kedar Mate on the Future of Health Care Dialogue

14

Building Intelligent Health Around the Whole Person with Nasim Afsar

15

Health Reform, Affordability, and the Future of Coverage with Professor Jonathan Gruber

16

The Future of Medicine with AI: Dr. Bob Wachter on Opportunity and Risk

17

Why Public Health Matters Most When You Don’t See It with Dr. Rochelle Walensky

18

Why Public Health Still Matters More Than Ever with Dr. Tom Frieden

19

Why Better Questions Lead to Better Care with Hugo Campos

20

How Maryland Is Testing a Different Way to Pay for Health Care with Dr. Meena Seshamani

21

Why Public Health Keeps Getting Ignored Until It’s Too Late with Michelle Williams & Linda Marsa

22

The Real Reason Training Alone Cannot Fix Patient Safety with Professor Charles Vincent

23

How Stories Can Help People Rethink Health Care Reform with Shantanu Rai

24

Who Sets the Table for Quality Measurement in U.S. Health Care? with Brenna Rabel & Michelle Schreiber

25

AI, Interoperability, and the Next Era of Quality Measurement with Jeff Geppert

26

The Hidden Math Of Aging That Is Bankrupting Middle-Class Families with Dr. Joanne Lynn

27

The Cost Shifting Cycle Behind Your Rising Premiums with Chris Van Gorder

28

Disrupting the Aging Services Model Through Community-Based Care with Marta Corvêlo

29

Why The US Pays More For The Same Medications Than Everyone Else with Dr. Jerry Avorn

30

The Power of Everyday Mindfulness: Healing, Community, and Public Health Impact with Brother Phap Luu

31

Beyond Compliance: Vivek Garg on Patient-Centered Quality and Real-Time Improvement

32

Medicaid Work Requirements and the Unraveling of Health Coverage with Ben Sommers

33

Who Guards Healthcare AI? Inside CHAI’s Push for Trust and Transparency with Dr. Brian Anderson

34

From Chaos to Care: Dr. Gary Kaplan on Leading with Quality

35

Patient Safety in the Age of AI: Risks, Rewards, and Reality live at the IHI Forum

36

The Cost of Not Listening: How Medical Silencing Harms Patients with Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan

37

From Bankruptcy to Rescue: Dr. Gregg Meyer on the Emergency that Transformed Massachusetts Healthcare

38

Medicaid: What’s at Risk, and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever with Cindy Mann

39

Relearning Trust: How Science, Communication, and Preparedness Must Evolve with Dr. Michael Osterholm

40

Healing Those Who Served: Dr. David Shulkin on the VA’s Legacy and the Future of American Health Care.

41

Information Sickness: How Our Media Environment Is Harming Public Health with Joshua Sharfstein & Joanne Kenen

42

From Patient to Advocate: Rosie Bartel on Transforming Pain into Change

43

Upstream Medicine: Healing Through Trust, Dignity, and Context - with Dr. Sandeep Kapoor

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Regulation, consternation, Food and Drug Administration - with Robert Califf

45

The chronic impact of health care corporatization on clinicians and patients - with Peter Grinspoon

46

The economics of medication - with Vinay Patel

47

The story of the NHS and what we can learn from it - with Bob Klaber

48

Housing, homelessness, and health - with Rosanne Haggerty

49

Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Optimism, Concern, and the Future of Health Care with Don Berwick & Kedar Mate

50

Safety x AI - with Jason Adelman

51

Madd love: Reducing recidivism rates in young adults - with Gregg Croteau

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It shouldn't take a crisis to make us talk about public health - with Howard Koh

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Inequities, inequalities, and truth to power - with Steven Woolf

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Graduate medical education and social contracts - with Tom Nasca

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Home-based care to tackle maternal health inequities and improve outcomes - with Rebekah Gee

56

Humans in health care - with Tom Fisher

57

The story of palliative care, on the big screen - with Jessica Zitter

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Kindness and what matters to you - with Maureen Bisognano

59

The human impact of today's politics on the oldest public hospital in America - with Eric Wei

60

The connection between meaning and purpose to reduce staff burnout - with Steve Swensen

61

Health Care AI at Speed – Recorded at IHI Leadership Alliance Spring Meeting 2025 with Brett Moran, Charles Binkley & Lucas Zier

62

Upstream and downstream determinants of health and the water we drink - with Cydian Kauffman

63

Join the patient revolution - with Victor M. Montori

64

Imagine a public health system built on mutual aid, participation, and dignity with Eric Reinhart

65

Has healthcare fully realized the potential of AI? with Eric Horvitz

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Democratizing Expertise with Sanjeev Arora

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Keeping Patients over Profits with Dhruv Khullar

68

Demystifying Dental Health with Melissa Burroughs

69

Catholic Health Care with Patricia Gabow

70

Movement Building and Large Scale Change with Joe McCannon

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Rational Public Policy with Mike Chernew

72

The Evolution of Palliative Care with Christine Cassel

73

Think Tanks and Their Role in Health Care Policy with Andrea Ducas

74

Anyone Can Choose Leadership with Dennis Wagner and John Scanlon

75

The Economics and Ills of U.S. Health Care and Health Insurance with Zack Cooper

76

Continuous Learning for Better Care with Daniel Hyman and Peter Margolis

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Approaching Systems Change with Dan Heath

78

The Past, Present, and Future of Health Plan Innovation with Liz Fowler

79

Turn off the lights with Jeff Thompson at the IHI Forum

80

There is no quality without equity with Thea James and Bisola Ojikutu

81

Building an Age Friendly Movement with Terry Fulmer and Faith Mitchell

82

Is medical education stuck in the past? with Abraham Nussbaum

83

The importance of the "hand-off" in health care with Christopher Landrigan

84

Workforce planning, workforce wellbeing, and workforce retention with Navina Evans

85

Cutting through the misinformation with Celine Gounder

86

When people of the system own the system with April Kyle and Doug Eby

87

Health system ownership with Hayden Rooke-Ley

88

Politics, mobilization, and political force with Marshall Ganz

89

What is social capital and what value does it have in health care? with Tom Lee

90

Ethical conundrums aplenty with Vardit Ravitsky

91

How technology giants like Google are impacting healthcare with Michael Howell

92

Expanding the role of health systems beyond traditional hospital care with Michael Dowling

93

Can trust in health care journalism be rebuilt? with David Rousseau

94

Using information, insights (and humans) to improve outcomes with Eric Poon

95

Building will and change with agency with Pedja Stojicic

96

The importance of access to information and data as a patient and caregiver with Susannah Fox

97

The transformative shift from health care in hospitals to home-based care

98

Maintaining medical care amidst bombs with Dr. Olesya Vynnyk and Dr. Miguel Cendoroglo Neto

99

Art, activism, and health care with Michelle Browder

100

Rerun: What Happened to Patient Safety with Sue Sheridan

101

Rerun - Penalized for Being Sick: The Uniquely American Crisis of Medical Debt with Berneta L. Haynes

102

We need a health care system that supports healthy aging with Maria Carney and Charles Kenney

103

Patient empowerment and community engagement for better health outcomes

104

The future of medical education with Holly Humphrey

105

The importance of evidence-based medicine and health care with Dr. Rita Redberg

106

The Power of Patients and Clinicians Aligning on a Deep Issue: Prior Authorization Law Change, with Dr. Nisha Mehta and Dr. Tina Shah

107

Beacons of scientific truth, with Alan Weil

108

Information exchange and the role publications play in health care and medical media today, with Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, 17th Editor-in-Chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network

109

Let's talk about "hospitalists" and what the term means with its inventor Robert Wachter

110

If you don't learn their story, you're cheating the patient and yourself with Dr. David Reuben

111

Taking the Policy Route to Improve Coverage and Care with Leslie Dach, Founder and chair of Protect Our Care

112

The Need for a Healthier, More Supportive Environment and System for Health Care Professionals with Eileen Barrett, J. Corey Feist, and Wendy Dean

113

Patient-Centric Care with Susan Edgman-Levitan

114

Big Data, Big Opportunity to Improve Patient Care with Dr. John Halamka, President of Mayo Clinic Platform

115

Do Health Care Systems Really Focus on Ensuring that Patients Have a Positive Experience? with Meg Gaines

116

Why Do Prescription Drugs Cost So Much with Aaron Kesselheim, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School

117

A Lesson in Preparedness: Qatar, COVID, and the FIFA World Cup

118

Is Health Care for Women and Families Still a Neglected Aspect of the US Health Care System? with Dr. Neel Shah

119

The Concerning Influence of Private Equity in the Health Care with Rosemary Batt

120

Combating Misinformation and Restoring Faith in Evidence-Based Medicine with Rich Baron

121

Building a Culture of Appreciation for the Nursing Community with Bonnie Barnes and Deb Zimmermann

122

From Theory to Practice with Vineet Arora

123

Safety net hospitals and their role in serving under-resourced communities with Fred Cerise

124

What it Means When a Health Care Provider gets Acquired by a Private Equity Firm with Zirui Song, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School

125

A Brief History of Trust and Health Care with Lewis A. Grossman

126

Transforming Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities with Mai Pham

127

An Innovative Care Management Model for a Fragmented System with Kathleen Noonan

128

Disrupting the Pharma Industry with Affordable Medication for Everyone with Dan Liljenquist

129

Investing in Local Communities to Improve Health with David Zuckerman, President and Founder of Healthcare Anchor Network

130

The Free Clinic Movement with Stephanie Willding

131

The Power of Networks for Learning, Improvement, and Large-scale Change with Helen Bevan

132

Sweden's Health System: A stark contrast to the US health system with Goran Henriks

133

Health Care's Unfortunate Role in the Global Climate Crisis with Gary Cohen

134

Health care for LGBTQ+ patients: Treat others as they would want to be treated with Kyle P. Christiason

135

Our healthcare system is confusing... Please help! with Lisa K. Fitzpatrick

136

Why does medicine cost so much? with Aaron S. Kesselheim

137

Journalism and Health Care: A Relationship Worth Talking About with Noam Levey

138

Reversing the Harms of Mass Incarceration with Emily Wang

139

Are Health Insurers Always the Villains? with Sachin Jain

140

An Innovative Response to Medical Debt with Allison Sesso

141

What is a Safety Net Hospital? with Elaine Batchlor

142

Some Hard Truths About US Health Care with Jason Leitch

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Is More Care Better Care? with Vikas Saini

144

From Challenges to Triumph: Tackling Hepatitis C and Advancing Healthcare with Francis Collins

145

What Happened to Patient Safety with Sue Sheridan

146

The Poverty and Bad Health Cycle with Alister Martin

147

Penalized for Being Sick: The Uniquely American Crisis of Medical Debt with Berneta L. Haynes

148

How to Make Health Care Work for Patients with Rushika Fernandopulle

149

Welcome to Turn on the Lights

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Introducing Turn on the Lights: Illuminating the Complexities of US Healthcare