Podcasts

    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 […]

    Featuring Wendell Potter, Dr. Barbara Goff, Dr. Anthony Cardillo and Rachel Madley: How does America’s corporate healthcare system delay and deny care to save money and increase profits? Host Brenda Gazzar explores how such denials impact patients and their doctors. How would things […]