Health & Veritas

Wolfram Goessling: Lessons from the Other Side of Cancer

30 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine liver specialist Wolfram Goessling, who reflects on his experience surviving a rare cancer and ...

Trust, Truth, and Moral Distress

23 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan take on tough questions at the intersection of medicine and society. They trace the deadly history of anti-vaccine activism, unpack Y...

Stephen Latham: The End of Irreversibility

16 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Stephen Latham, a Yale School of Medicine senior research scholar and the director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center...

Help That Endures

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine gastroenterologist Deborah Proctor, who reflects on her decades of work in Honduras and how her...

Selwyn Rogers: Bearing Witness to Violence

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by trauma surgeon Selwyn Rogers, who reflects on caring for victims of gun violence and speaking with families in their da...

Arya Singh: Beyond Accessibility

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale College and Yale School of Public Health graduate Arya Singh, who reflects on growing up with spinal muscular atro...

Vaccines, Cholesterol, and Other News

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss the end of flu season, vaccine effectiveness, and the challenge of rebuilding public confidence in immunization. Also: new ch...

Kevin Billingsley: The Making of the Modern Surgeon

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine surgical oncologist Kevin Billingsley, who discusses how robotics and advanced imaging are resh...

Kevin Sheth: Innovation Toward a Healthier Brain

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine neurologist Kevin Sheth to discuss how collaboration helps drive breakthroughs in brain health,...

Janet Currie: Investing in Kids

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale economist Janet Currie to discuss how early-life investments in health, education, and environmental protection sh...

Evangelos Oikonomou: Decoding the Hidden Signals of Heart Disease

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Evangelos Oikonomou, a cardiologist and data scientist at the Yale School of Medicine, to discuss how AI can extract ov...

Joel Hirschhorn: How Genes Add Up

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by geneticist and endocrinologist Joel Hirschhorn to discuss how thousands of genetic variants collectively shape disease ...

Measles Outbreaks, Preventative Cardiology, and Other News

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss an escalating measles outbreak in the U.S. and a project piloted by Yale School of Medicine professor Erica Spatz to deliver ...

Robert Wachter: AI Is Already Remaking Healthcare

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by internist and author Robert Wachter to discuss his new book, which explores how AI is already changing day-to-day medic...

Mary-Ann Etiebet: Confronting Preventable Disease

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Mary-Ann Etiebet of the public health organization Vital Strategies, to discuss how policy, prevention, and stronger pu...

Jonathan Cohn: Health Policy in the Age of MAHA

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by health policy writer Jonathan Cohn to discuss the RFK Jr. food agenda, the barriers to universal healthcare in the U.S....

Sara Rosenbaum: Expanding Coverage, One Step at a Time

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by health law and policy expert Sara Rosenbaum to discuss how incremental reform expanded healthcare access—and the urge...

Ania Jastreboff: Treating Obesity Without Shame

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this bonus episode, Howie and Harlan are joined by Ania Jastreboff, a Yale School of Medicine endocrinologist and an expert on the science of obesi...

Julie Rovner: On the Health Policy Beat

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, joins Howie and Harlan to make sense of the fight over ACA subsidies and reflect on ...

Ezekiel Emanuel: Ice Cream and Other Keys to a Long Life

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In a bonus episode, Howie and Harlan welcome oncologist, bioethicist, and public health expert Ezekiel Emanuel to discuss his new book, which counters...

An Ongoing Conversation about Health and Healthcare

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the 200th episode of Health & Veritas, Harlan offers end-of-the-year reflections on medicine drawn from his editor's notes in JACC (the Journal of ...

Basmah Safdar: Why Women Experience Illness Differently

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Basmah Safdar, a Yale School of Medicine emergency physician and an expert on sex-specific differences in cardiovascula...

Sudhakar Nuti: Bringing Healthcare to the Unhoused

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Sudhakar Nuti to discuss his work improving healthcare for homeless New Yorkers, as a street-medicine doctor and a popu...

Peter Hotez: Mapping the Anti-Science Machine

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Peter Hotez, a vaccine expert and an outspoken opponent of health misinformation, to discuss vaccine skepticism and the...

The Cost Curve, Flu, and Other News

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss the outlook for U.S. healthcare spending over the next five years, the state of seasonal and avian flu, and an expensive AI-b...

Jerry Avorn: Countering the Drug Marketing Machine

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Harvard internist Jerry Avorn to discuss his research on the pharmaceutical industry and his work promoting evidence-ba...

Ali Rahimi: A Cardiologist in Your Pocket

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by cardiologist Ali Rahimi, the founder of ALYKA Health, which uses a personalized mobile app to help patients manage thei...

Nate Wood: Cooking Lessons for Better Health

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Nate Wood, a Yale School of Medicine internist and trained chef, to discuss his work combining lifestyle guidance with ...

Akiko Iwasaki: What Have We Learned About Long COVID?

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine immunologist Akiko Iwasaki, a leading authority on vaccines and long COVID. Harlan reflects on ...

Rajlakshmi Krishnamurthy: Coordinated Care, Better Care

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Rajlakshmi Krishnamurthy, the Yale School of Medicine's associate dean for population health, to discuss her work build...

Crowded Emergency Rooms and Other News

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss the roots of the crisis in emergency departments, the lack of oversight for hydration spas, new approaches in blood pressure ...

Vanessa Cooper: The Science of Headaches

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Vanessa Cooper, a Yale School of Medicine neurologist, to discuss the causes of migraines and promising new treatments ...

Kate Heilpern: Jumping into the Deep End

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Kate Heilpern, president of Yale New Haven Hospital, to discuss the innovation and adaption needed to lead NewYork-Pres...

Barry Wu: The Questions to Ask the Elderly

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale School of Medicine geriatrician Barry Wu, who provides a framework for family caregivers and physicians to underst...

Eric Topol: The Keys to Healthy Aging

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by physician, scientist, and author Eric Topol to discuss his new book, Super Agers: An Evidence-Based Approach to Longevi...

Science, Politics, and Personality

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss Dr. Vinay Prasad’s departure from the FDA after a backlash against his decisions on Sarepta’s Duchenne muscular dystrophy...

Katelyn Jetelina: A Visit from Your Local Epidemiologist

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by public health communicator Katelyn Jetelina for updates on COVID-19 and other issues, and to discuss how her emails to ...

Seth Berkowitz: The Power Problem

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Seth Berkowitz, an internist and health equity expert, who argues that we know how to keep people healthier but are lac...

Azita Emami: Educating Nurse-Leaders

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Azita Emami, dean of the Yale School of Nursing, to discuss the school’s approach to training nurses who can have a s...

America’s Healthcare Paradox and Other News

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss the alarming healthcare cuts proposed in the budget bill currently moving through Congress, recent breakthroughs in HIV preve...

Stephen Waxman: Easing the Horrors of Chronic Pain

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Stephen Waxman, a leading neurology researcher, to discuss the promise of new methods developed by his lab to treat the...

The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ and Other News

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare issues making headlines, including public attitudes toward the Medicaid cuts in the budget bill making ...

Sarah DeSilvey: Creating Space for Healing

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Sarah DeSilvey to talk about her career as a rural nurse practitioner and her work to create a shared vocabulary for tr...

Dave Chokshi: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Pandemic

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dave Chokshi, who led New York City’s response to COVID-19 as health commissioner and serves as chair of the Common H...

Live at the Yale Innovation Summit 2025

30 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a special episode recorded at Connecticut’s largest entrepreneurship event, Howie and guest host Megan Ranney, the dean of the Yale School of Pub...

Rebekah Gee: Improving Health, One Family at a Time

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Rebekah Gee, founder and CEO of Nest Health, which provides in-home care to kids on Medicaid and their families. Harlan...

James Dodington: Protecting Kids from Gun Violence

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by James Dodington, a Yale pediatric emergency medicine physician and an expert in community-based violence prevention. Ha...

Thomas Gill: The Secrets to an Active Old Age

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Thomas Gill, a Yale geriatrician whose research tracks the factors that contribute to disability in older adults—and ...

Joel Bervell: The Healthcare Communicator

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Joel Bervell, a recent medical school graduate who uses social media platforms to combat misinformation and explain rac...

Afib, AI Agents, and Other News

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie reflects on his decades-long experience with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and the procedure that has changed his life. Howie and Harlan report...

Deepak D’Souza: Perils of Cannabis and Promise of Psychedelics

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Deepak D'Souza, the Vikram Sodhi ’92 Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, explains risks from highly potent cannabinoids and research on treating mental...

Evan Sussman: Expanding Access to Fertility Drugs

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan welcome Evan Sussman, the CEO of Granata Bio, which aims to bring IVF and fertility drugs that have been proven in other markets to t...

Alexi Nazem: Building Healthcare Solutions

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Alexi Nazem, a Yale-trained internist who co-founded the healthcare staffing company Nomad Health and now leads healthc...

Ryan Schwarz: Thinking Differently about the Primary Care Crisis

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Ryan Schwarz, a Yale-trained MD-MBA who oversees accountable care for the Massachusetts Medicaid program, to discuss ne...

Mark McClellan: An Economic Lens on Healthcare

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Mark McLellan, a physician, economist, and longtime public servant, to discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19 respon...

Aging in Bursts and Other News

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan check in on health issues in the news, including the big bet that went wrong for Walgreens, prohibited words at federal health agenci...

Sarah Taylor: The Science of Breastfeeding

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale neonatologist Sarah Taylor to discuss our growing understanding of breastfeeding, including the active role that i...

Michael Dunne: Confronting the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by infectious disease specialist Michael Dunne to discuss the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance and what’s nee...

Paul Lombardo: Reckoning with the Dark History of Eugenics

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by legal historian Paul Lombardo to discuss his work exploring the role of the legal and medical establishments in eugenic...

Deborah Rhodes: A Breast-Cancer Screening Breakthrough

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Deborah Rhodes, a Yale internist and the chief quality officer for Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Health System. They...

The AI in the Doctor’s Office and Other News

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss a breakthrough pain medication, studies on AI-assisted medicine, the explosion of sports gambling, and the health consequence...

Lisa Rosenbaum: Medicine, Well-Being, and Victimhood

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Lisa Rosenbaum, a cardiologist and the national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, to discuss her w...

Susan Mayne: Keeping Food Safe

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Susan Mayne, a Yale epidemiologist and the former director of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition,...

Sachin Jain: Has Managed Care Lost Its Way?

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Sachin Jain, CEO of the nonprofit Scan Health Plan, who argues that the managed care industry must dramatically reorien...

Perverse Incentives in Healthcare and Other News

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines, including misaligned incentives keeping medicine from its mission, burdensome out-of-pockets...

Dana Dunne: Learning to Learn

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale physician Dana Dunne, who leads a new coaching program designed to help medical students develop a lifelong orient...

Jaewon Ryu: The Power of Integrated Care

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Jaewon Ryu, CEO of Risant Health, a nonprofit company that brings together integrated health systems with the goal of s...

Aaron Kesselheim: Law, Policy, and Health

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Aaron Kesselheim, a physician, attorney, and public health expert, to discuss the shifting legal landscape for healthca...

Vin Gupta: Impact at Scale

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Vin Gupta, a physician, a medical analyst for NBC News, and the chief medical officer of Amazon Pharmacy. Harlan report...

Halle Tecco: Investing in Women’s Health

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by investor and entrepreneur Halle Tecco to discuss her work connecting the worlds of technology and healthcare, and her l...

Rahul Rajkumar: Intensive Home-Based Care for High-Need Patients

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Rahul Rajkumar, founder and CEO of Accompany Health, which provides a team of providers for patients who are on both Me...

Medicine-Life Balance and Other News

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines, including generational shifts in doctors’ approach to work, a promising vaccine for norovi...

Stephen Knight: Investing in Biotech Solutions

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Stephen Knight, president and managing partner of the healthcare and technology venture capital firm F-Prime Capital, t...

Michael Sherling: Building a Better Electronic Health Record

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Michael Sherling, a dermatologist and a founder of Modernizing Medicine, which aims to save doctors time with an intell...

The Physician Shortage and Other News

17 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare issues in the headlines, including a powerful—but dangerous—new gene therapy, racial disparities in...

Max Laurans: An Entrepreneurial Life in Medicine

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Max Laurans, a Yale neurosurgeon and hospital administrator, and a founder of the healthcare staffing company Nomad Hea...

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Crises and Common Ground

03 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan welcome Vivek Murthy, the 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States and a graduate of the Yale School of Medicine and the Ya...

Boosters, Brain Age, and Other News

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss recent headlines, including the latest round of COVID and flu vaccines, a lousy report card for the U.S. healthcare system, a...

Ania Jastreboff: The Transformative Obesity Drugs

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Ania Jastreboff, a Yale endocrinologist and an expert on obesity medication, to talk about the remarkable range of dise...

Margaret McGovern: Building an Integrated Health System

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Margaret McGovern, deputy dean for clinical affairs at the Yale School of Medicine, CEO of Yale Medicine, and chief phy...

Lee Schwamm: Smarter Healthcare Systems With AI

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Lee Schwamm, associate dean for digital strategy and transformation for Yale School of Medicine and chief digital healt...

Joshua Sharfstein: Policy and Health

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Joshua Sharfstein, a longtime public health official in federal, state, and local government, to discuss the state of t...

Kate Goodrich: A Better Model for Care

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Kate Goodrich, chief medical officer for Humana and a former Medicare staffer, to discuss the improvements in care and ...

Timothy Westmoreland: Healthcare at the Supreme Court

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Timothy Westmoreland to discuss his long career in health policy and law, and the far-reaching consequences of the Supr...

An HIV Breakthrough and Other News

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan catch up on healthcare headlines, including the politics of treating gun violence as a public health crisis, the growing evidence for...

Lisa Suter: Medicine, Measurement, and Equity

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Lisa Suter, a rheumatologist and the senior director of the Quality Measurement Program at Yale’s Center for Outcomes...

Anna Reisman: Bringing the Humanities to Medicine

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Anna Reisman, a physician and writer who leads Yale’s Program for Humanities in Medicine. They discuss the gaps in ca...

Mitesh Rao: Democratizing Healthcare Data

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mitesh Rao, co-founder and CEO of OMNY Health, joins Howie and Harlan to discuss his entrepreneurial journey and how his company is creating a common ...

Live at the Yale Innovation Summit

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A special episode recorded at the Yale Innovation Summit, which brings together entrepreneurs and investors in the arts, biotech, climate, health, and...

Chima Ndumele: Reinventing Medicaid

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Chima Ndumele of the Yale School of Public Health to discuss his research on structural changes to Medicaid that could ...

Ruth Katz: Crafting Landmark Legislation

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Ruth Katz, executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Health, Medicine & Society Program and a former Capitol Hill s...

Greg Licholai: Breaking through the Innovation Bottleneck

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Greg Licholai, a Yale SOM lecturer and biotech entrepreneur, to discuss his career and his work at the contract researc...

The Primary Care Crisis and Other News

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines. From flatlining telehealth to Walmart closing retail clinics to months-long waits for health...

Arthur Caplan: Medicine’s Toughest Ethical Questions

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Arthur Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics and founding head of the division of ...

Scott Berkowitz: Value-Based Care and Population Health

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Scott Berkowitz ’03, cardiologist and chief population health officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, to discuss the neces...

Atheendar Venkataramani: Opportunity, Hope, and Health

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Atheendar Venkataramani, a physician, health economist, and director of the Perelman School of Medicine’s Opportunity...

Kate McEvoy: How Medicaid Is Driving Healthcare Innovation

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Kate McEvoy, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, to discuss the programs’ underappr...

Margo Harrison: Women’s Health as a Path to Empowerment

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Margo Harrison, an OB-GYN and femtech entrepreneur, to discuss how innovative solutions to women’s health problems of...

Zack Cooper: High Healthcare Costs: Who Pays, Who Benefits

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale health economist Zack Cooper to discuss his work on surprise medical bills and the impact of high healthcare costs...

Robert Alpern: Creating an Inspired Medical School

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Robert Alpern, a Yale nephrologist and the former dean of the Yale School of Medicine, to discuss the importance of a f...