Featuring Dr. Philip Verhoef, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and ICU physician: How has our fragmented healthcare system affected our ability to perform basic public health functions? What lessons can we learn from other countries with nationally-centralized electronic health […]

    Featuring Dr. Philip Verhoef, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Hawaii and ICU physician: How can we maximize our ability to confront pandemics like the coronavirus? Which strategies are working for us, and which are failing? Host Brenda Gazzar and Dr. […]

    Featuring Dr. Tony Iton, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment: Why does the U.S. lack a universal, Medicare-for-All-type healthcare system like many other developed countries have? And what are the consequences? In this fifth and final episode of a […]

    Featuring Dr. Tony Iton, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment: How does the lack of universal sick leave and health care affect America’s ability to respond to pandemics?  In this fourth in a series with host Brenda Gazzar, Dr. […]

    Featuring Dr. Tony Iton, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment:  Learn which of us are most vulnerable during this pandemic, and why. In this third of a podcast series with host Brenda Gazzar, Dr. Tony Iton describes the intersection […]

    Featuring Dr. Tony Iton, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment: Learn how deforestation and climate change are increasing the likelihood of future pandemics and what America can do to prepare for them. In this second of a podcast series […]

    Featuring Dr. Tony Iton, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment: Find out how the erosion of America’s public health system undermined our response to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. In this first of a podcast series, Dr. Iton explains how […]

    Featuring Dr. Ana Malinow, pediatrician and Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco: What’s more precious to our society than our children, our future? Yet today a growing number of children are losing health insurance coverage and as a result, […]

    Featuring Rebecca Wood, a Boston mother and community organizer: How do parents balance their own needs and their children’s in America’s high-stakes healthcare system? Learn how one devoted mother was forced to make a choice with traumatic consequences. Rebecca Wood has faced a […]