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Turn on the Lights Podcast — 135 episodes
The Future of Medicine with AI: Dr. Bob Wachter on Opportunity and Risk
Why Public Health Matters Most When You Don’t See It with Dr. Rochelle Walensky
Why Public Health Still Matters More Than Ever with Dr. Tom Frieden
Why Better Questions Lead to Better Care with Hugo Campos
How Maryland Is Testing a Different Way to Pay for Health Care with Dr. Meena Seshamani
Why Public Health Keeps Getting Ignored Until It’s Too Late with Michelle Williams & Linda Marsa
The Real Reason Training Alone Cannot Fix Patient Safety with Professor Charles Vincent
How Stories Can Help People Rethink Health Care Reform with Shantanu Rai
Who Sets the Table for Quality Measurement in U.S. Health Care? with Brenna Rabel & Michelle Schreiber
AI, Interoperability, and the Next Era of Quality Measurement with Jeff Geppert
The Hidden Math Of Aging That Is Bankrupting Middle-Class Families with Dr. Joanne Lynn
The Cost Shifting Cycle Behind Your Rising Premiums with Chris Van Gorder
Disrupting the Aging Services Model Through Community-Based Care with Marta Corvêlo
Why The US Pays More For The Same Medications Than Everyone Else with Dr. Jerry Avorn
The Power of Everyday Mindfulness: Healing, Community, and Public Health Impact with Brother Phap Luu
Beyond Compliance: Vivek Garg on Patient-Centered Quality and Real-Time Improvement
Medicaid Work Requirements and the Unraveling of Health Coverage with Ben Sommers
Who Guards Healthcare AI? Inside CHAI’s Push for Trust and Transparency with Dr. Brian Anderson
From Chaos to Care: Dr. Gary Kaplan on Leading with Quality
Patient Safety in the Age of AI: Risks, Rewards, and Reality live at the IHI Forum
The Cost of Not Listening: How Medical Silencing Harms Patients with Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan
From Bankruptcy to Rescue: Dr. Gregg Meyer on the Emergency that Transformed Massachusetts Healthcare
Medicaid: What’s at Risk, and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever with Cindy Mann
Relearning Trust: How Science, Communication, and Preparedness Must Evolve with Dr. Michael Osterholm
Healing Those Who Served: Dr. David Shulkin on the VA’s Legacy and the Future of American Health Care.
Information Sickness: How Our Media Environment Is Harming Public Health with Joshua Sharfstein & Joanne Kenen
From Patient to Advocate: Rosie Bartel on Transforming Pain into Change
Upstream Medicine: Healing Through Trust, Dignity, and Context - with Dr. Sandeep Kapoor
Regulation, consternation, Food and Drug Administration - with Robert Califf
The chronic impact of health care corporatization on clinicians and patients - with Peter Grinspoon
The economics of medication - with Vinay Patel
The story of the NHS and what we can learn from it - with Bob Klaber
Housing, homelessness, and health - with Rosanne Haggerty
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Optimism, Concern, and the Future of Health Care with Don Berwick & Kedar Mate
Safety x AI - with Jason Adelman
Madd love: Reducing recidivism rates in young adults - with Gregg Croteau
It shouldn't take a crisis to make us talk about public health - with Howard Koh
Inequities, inequalities, and truth to power - with Steven Woolf
Graduate medical education and social contracts - with Tom Nasca
Home-based care to tackle maternal health inequities and improve outcomes - with Rebekah Gee
Humans in health care - with Tom Fisher
The story of palliative care, on the big screen - with Jessica Zitter
Kindness and what matters to you - with Maureen Bisognano
The human impact of today's politics on the oldest public hospital in America - with Eric Wei
The connection between meaning and purpose to reduce staff burnout - with Steve Swensen
Health Care AI at Speed – Recorded at IHI Leadership Alliance Spring Meeting 2025 with Brett Moran, Charles Binkley & Lucas Zier
Upstream and downstream determinants of health and the water we drink - with Cydian Kauffman
Join the patient revolution - with Victor M. Montori
Imagine a public health system built on mutual aid, participation, and dignity with Eric Reinhart
Has healthcare fully realized the potential of AI? with Eric Horvitz
Democratizing Expertise with Sanjeev Arora
Keeping Patients over Profits with Dhruv Khullar
Demystifying Dental Health with Melissa Burroughs
Catholic Health Care with Patricia Gabow
Movement Building and Large Scale Change with Joe McCannon
Rational Public Policy with Mike Chernew
The Evolution of Palliative Care with Christine Cassel
Think Tanks and Their Role in Health Care Policy with Andrea Ducas
Anyone Can Choose Leadership with Dennis Wagner and John Scanlon
The Economics and Ills of U.S. Health Care and Health Insurance with Zack Cooper
Continuous Learning for Better Care with Daniel Hyman and Peter Margolis
Approaching Systems Change with Dan Heath
The Past, Present, and Future of Health Plan Innovation with Liz Fowler
Turn off the lights with Jeff Thompson at the IHI Forum
There is no quality without equity with Thea James and Bisola Ojikutu
Building an Age Friendly Movement with Terry Fulmer and Faith Mitchell
Is medical education stuck in the past? with Abraham Nussbaum
The importance of the "hand-off" in health care with Christopher Landrigan
Workforce planning, workforce wellbeing, and workforce retention with Navina Evans
Cutting through the misinformation with Celine Gounder
When people of the system own the system with April Kyle and Doug Eby
Health system ownership with Hayden Rooke-Ley
Politics, mobilization, and political force with Marshall Ganz
What is social capital and what value does it have in health care? with Tom Lee
Ethical conundrums aplenty with Vardit Ravitsky
How technology giants like Google are impacting healthcare with Michael Howell
Expanding the role of health systems beyond traditional hospital care with Michael Dowling
Can trust in health care journalism be rebuilt? with David Rousseau
Using information, insights (and humans) to improve outcomes with Eric Poon
Building will and change with agency with Pedja Stojicic
The importance of access to information and data as a patient and caregiver with Susannah Fox
The transformative shift from health care in hospitals to home-based care
Maintaining medical care amidst bombs with Dr. Olesya Vynnyk and Dr. Miguel Cendoroglo Neto
Art, activism, and health care with Michelle Browder
Rerun: What Happened to Patient Safety with Sue Sheridan
Rerun - Penalized for Being Sick: The Uniquely American Crisis of Medical Debt with Berneta L. Haynes
We need a health care system that supports healthy aging with Maria Carney and Charles Kenney
Patient empowerment and community engagement for better health outcomes
The future of medical education with Holly Humphrey
The importance of evidence-based medicine and health care with Dr. Rita Redberg
The Power of Patients and Clinicians Aligning on a Deep Issue: Prior Authorization Law Change, with Dr. Nisha Mehta and Dr. Tina Shah
Beacons of scientific truth, with Alan Weil
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
Let's talk about "hospitalists" and what the term means with its inventor Robert Wachter
If you don't learn their story, you're cheating the patient and yourself with Dr. David Reuben
Taking the Policy Route to Improve Coverage and Care with Leslie Dach, Founder and chair of Protect Our Care
The Need for a Healthier, More Supportive Environment and System for Health Care Professionals with Eileen Barrett, J. Corey Feist, and Wendy Dean
Patient-Centric Care with Susan Edgman-Levitan
Big Data, Big Opportunity to Improve Patient Care with Dr. John Halamka, President of Mayo Clinic Platform
Do Health Care Systems Really Focus on Ensuring that Patients Have a Positive Experience? with Meg Gaines
Why Do Prescription Drugs Cost So Much with Aaron Kesselheim, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
A Lesson in Preparedness: Qatar, COVID, and the FIFA World Cup
Is Health Care for Women and Families Still a Neglected Aspect of the US Health Care System? with Dr. Neel Shah
The Concerning Influence of Private Equity in the Health Care with Rosemary Batt
Combating Misinformation and Restoring Faith in Evidence-Based Medicine with Rich Baron
Building a Culture of Appreciation for the Nursing Community with Bonnie Barnes and Deb Zimmermann
From Theory to Practice with Vineet Arora
Safety net hospitals and their role in serving under-resourced communities with Fred Cerise
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
A Brief History of Trust and Health Care with Lewis A. Grossman
Transforming Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities with Mai Pham
An Innovative Care Management Model for a Fragmented System with Kathleen Noonan
Disrupting the Pharma Industry with Affordable Medication for Everyone with Dan Liljenquist
Investing in Local Communities to Improve Health with David Zuckerman, President and Founder of Healthcare Anchor Network
The Free Clinic Movement with Stephanie Willding
The Power of Networks for Learning, Improvement, and Large-scale Change with Helen Bevan
Sweden's Health System: A stark contrast to the US health system with Goran Henriks
Health Care's Unfortunate Role in the Global Climate Crisis with Gary Cohen
Health care for LGBTQ+ patients: Treat others as they would want to be treated with Kyle P. Christiason
Our healthcare system is confusing... Please help! with Lisa K. Fitzpatrick
Why does medicine cost so much? with Aaron S. Kesselheim
Journalism and Health Care: A Relationship Worth Talking About with Noam Levey
Reversing the Harms of Mass Incarceration with Emily Wang
Are Health Insurers Always the Villains? with Sachin Jain
An Innovative Response to Medical Debt with Allison Sesso
What is a Safety Net Hospital? with Elaine Batchlor
Some Hard Truths About US Health Care with Jason Leitch
Is More Care Better Care? with Vikas Saini
From Challenges to Triumph: Tackling Hepatitis C and Advancing Healthcare with Francis Collins
What Happened to Patient Safety with Sue Sheridan
The Poverty and Bad Health Cycle with Alister Martin
Penalized for Being Sick: The Uniquely American Crisis of Medical Debt with Berneta L. Haynes
How to Make Health Care Work for Patients with Rushika Fernandopulle
Welcome to Turn on the Lights
Introducing Turn on the Lights: Illuminating the Complexities of US Healthcare