Health & Veritas

Robert Rohrbaugh: Bringing Antiracist Tools to Clinical Practice

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Robert Rohrbaugh, professor of psychiatry and deputy dean for professionalism and leadership at the Yale School of Medi...

A Cheating Scandal, Abandoned Research, and Other News

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines, including a cheating scandal that has led to the invalidation of hundreds of scores from Nep...

Lucila Ohno-Machado: AI and the Art of Medicine

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Lucila Ohno-Machado, the Yale School of Medicine’s deputy dean for biomedical informatics. She explains how expanding...

Farzad Mostashari: Aligning Incentives to Fix Primary Care

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Farzad Mostashari, co-founder and CEO of Aledade, an "accountable care organization" that seeks to align patient-provid...

Christopher O’Connor: Hospital Leadership in Trying Times

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Christopher O’Connor, CEO of Yale New Haven Health, to discuss his career path and his experience leading hospitals t...

Manisha Juthani: Solving Infectious Disease Mysteries

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Manisha Juthani, a Yale infectious disease specialist and commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health. ...

Claudine Litman: Designing Better Healthcare Solutions

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale SOM alum Claudine Litman, a designer and the director of Yale‘s Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation, to ta...

Reshma Ramachandran: Will the Supreme Court Upend Healthcare Regulation?

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Reshma Ramachandran, a Yale family physician and co-director of Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and...

Another Winter Wave, and Other News

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss the winter wave of COVID-19 and Howie’s experience with the Novovax vaccine, report on potential side effects of the next-g...

Julie Ann Sosa: Personalizing Treatment of Thyroid Cancer

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Julie Ann Sosa, chair of the University of California San Francisco department of surgery. She reports on new approache...

Eric Winer: A Cancer Doctor's Journey

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Eric Winer, director of the Yale Cancer Center and president of Yale's Smilow Cancer Hospital. They discuss his career,...

Tina Loarte-Rodríguez: Understanding Inequities in Healthcare

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Tina Loarte-Rodríguez, associate director, health equity measures, at Yale’s Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluati...

Tara Sanft: Life after Cancer

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Tara Sanft, chief patient experience officer at Yale’s Smilow Cancer Hospital and director of the Survivorship Progra...

Stephanie Sudikoff: The Power of Medical Simulation

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Stephanie Sudikoff, an expert on using simulation to train healthcare professionals, to discuss her new venture working...

Jerold Mande: Our Food Is Making Us Sick

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Jerold Mande, a nutrition expert who has served in the FDA, where he led the graphic design of the Nutrition Facts labe...

John Morton: The State of Obesity Treatment

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan review the results of a new study testing the effects of anti-obesity medications on cardiovascular health. Then they're joined by Ya...

Dhruv Khullar: The Physician-Journalist

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by the New Yorker's Dhruv Khullar to talk about his life as a clinician, researcher, and journalist. Harlan looks at how d...

Melinda Pettigrew: The Battle Against Antimicrobial Resistance

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Melinda Pettigrew of the Yale School of Public Health to discuss the changes needed in the prescription and agriculture...

The Latest on COVID-19 Vaccines, and Other News

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss current issues in healthcare, including burnout at the hospital, the downsides to Medicare Advantage, and how AI is helping r...

Katherine Baicker: Rigorous Thinking about Hard Problems

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by health economist Katherine Baicker of the University of Chicago to discuss her career in academia and government, the l...

Peter Salovey: A More Unified, Accessible, and Innovative Yale

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the 100th episode of Health & Veritas, Howie and Harlan are joined by Peter Salovey, the president of Yale University and a pioneering psychology s...

Marc Auerbach: Getting Emergency Departments Kid-Ready

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Marc Auerbach, a professor of pediatric emergency medicine at Yale, to discuss his work using standards and simulation ...

An Inspiring Nobel Win and Other News

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss the inspiring story behind the Nobel Prize in medicine, the settlement in the Cigna false billing case, and new research prov...

Mallika Mendu: Improving Operations

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Mallika Mendu to discuss how innovations in operations can lead to improved inpatient care and her work as both a pract...

Nita Ahuja: Epigenetics and Cancer

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Nita Ahuja, a Yale surgeon and researcher, to discuss new methods in for detecting and treating cancers and the barrier...

Peter Hotez: Opposing the Anti-Science Movement

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In a special episode, Howie and Harlan are joined by the virologist and advocate Peter Hotez to discuss his new book, The Deadly Rise of Anti-Science:...

Ted Long: A Model for Effective Primary Care

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Ted Long, senior vice president of ambulatory care and population health at New York City Health + Hospitals, to discus...

Zhenqiu Lin: Measuring Quality, Improving Care

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Zhenqiu Lin, senior director of analytics at Yale’s Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, to discuss how quali...

Best of Health & Veritas, Summer 2023

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan look back on some of their favorite moments from the first 92 episodes of Health & Veritas. Featured episodes: Ania Jastreboff: The ...

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy: Building a Culture of Health

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode, Howie and Harlan are joined by Vivek Murthy, the 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States, and a graduate of the Ya...

Alan Friedman: To Err Is Human

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Alan Friedman, chief medical officer at Yale New Haven Hospital, to talk about the organizational and cultural changes ...

Melissa Davis: Can a Radiologist Trust AI?

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Melissa Davis, a Yale radiologist and a graduate of Yale SOM’s MBA for Executives program, to discuss the ‘whoa’ ...

Julius Chapiro: Minimally Invasive Liver Cancer Treatment

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Julius Chapiro to discuss advances in the use of machine learning and molecular imaging to understand and treat liver c...

Dawn Harris Sherling: What Food Additives Are Doing to Your Microbiome

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dawn Harris Sherling, an internist at Florida Atlantic University and the author of Eat Everything: How to Ditch Addit...

Hil Moss: The Gap in Care for Cancer Survivors

29 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Hil Moss, a graduate of Yale SOM and the Yale School of Public Health, to discuss her experience being diagnosed with b...

Sejal Hathi: Serving the Public

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Sejal Hathi, a physician, podcaster, and social entrepreneur who recently left a White House role to become New Jersey’...

David Fiellin: The Treatments Changing the Lives of People with Opioid Addictions

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by David Fiellin, a Yale internist and an expert in addiction medicine. Harlan reports on a new study showing a surprising...

Abbe Gluck: The Legal Determinants of Health

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Abbe Gluck of Yale Law School to discuss how law shapes the health of Americans. Harlan explains how flaws in data priv...

Sandeep Jauhar: A Witness to Dementia

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Sandeep Jauhar, a cardiologist and the author, most recently, of the memoir My Father’s Brain: Life in the Shadow of ...

Albert Ko: A Journey in Public Health

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan welcome Yale’s Albert Ko back to the podcast to discuss the state of the COVID-19 pandemic and his career as an infectious disease ...

Joseph Sakran: Confronting Gun Violence

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Joseph Sakran, whose career as a trauma surgeon and advocate grew out of his own experience with gun violence. Harlan d...

Josh Geballe: Turning Yale Innovation into Startups

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Josh Geballe, a Yale SOM graduate who serves as managing director of Yale Ventures, Yale’s initiative overseeing the ...

Amanda Skinner: Navigating Reproductive Care after Roe

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Amanda Skinner, a Yale SOM graduate who leads Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. Harlan reflects on the potent...

Elizabeth Arleo: Advice for Working Mothers from a Women’s Health Specialist

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Elizabeth Arleo, a radiologist with a focus on breast imaging and the author of First, Eat Your Frog: And Other Pearls...

Megan Ranney: What’s Next for Public Health?

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Megan Ranney, who will become the dean of the newly independent Yale School of Public Health later this year. Harlan re...

Cary Gross: Effective Cancer Screening

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Cary Gross, professor of medicine and public health and director of the National Clinician Scholars Program at Yale, to...

Michael Alosco: The Toll of Repetitive Head Impacts

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Michael Alosco, co-director of Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, to discuss the consequenc...

Helen Burstin: Research with an Impact

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Helen Burstin to discuss her career examining issues of equity and quality in healthcare, and her current role as CEO o...

Michael Ivy: Doctors and Mental Health

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Michael Ivy, a surgeon and Yale New Haven Health's deputy chief medical officer, to discuss the mental health issues fa...

Harlan Krumholz, This Is Your Life

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie interviews Harlan about his path to medicine and his career as a physician and scientist. Links:  Harlan Krumholz: “Community-acquired bacte...

Ami Parekh: Tools for Navigating Care

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Ami Parekh, chief health officer of Included Health, which provides virtual care and data-driven guidance on finding th...

Brita Roy: Leveraging Community Resources for Better Health

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Brita Roy of NYU Langone Health to discuss her work drawing on the existing assets of a community to improve health out...

Anna Kaltenboeck: Untangling Drug Prices

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by health economist Anna Kaltenboeck, a graduate of Yale SOM’s EMBA program who served as senior health advisor to the S...

Tara Lagu: The Doctor Won’t See You Now

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Tara Lagu, a hospitalist, pharmacist, and researcher at Northwestern University, to discuss the startling bias faced by...

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld: The CEO Whisperer

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, an expert on leadership at the Yale School of Management, to discuss his decades of dialogue with t...

Countering COVID Revisionism

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss Howie’s recent bout of COVID-19 and the takeaways from new research on adverse events in hospitals, and they consider claim...

Leora Horwitz: Toward a Continuously Learning Healthcare System

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Leora Horwitz, director of the Rapid Randomized Controlled Trial Lab at NYU Langone Health, to discuss her work using e...

Gil Addo: Building a Model for Virtual Specialty Care

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan talk with Gil Addo, CEO and co-founder of RubiconMD, which is aiming to expand access to specialty care by providing virtual consulta...

Healthcare Headlines

12 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan check in on health issues that are in the news—or will be soon. Harlan discusses his work measuring patient outcomes and new avenue...

F. Perry Wilson: The Formula for Medical Misinformation

05 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan answers questions about the cardiac arrest suffered by Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin in a nationally televised football game; Howie report...

Lisa Sanders: The Art of Diagnosis

22 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Lisa Sanders, the Yale internist who writes the "Diagnosis" column in the New York Times. Harlan reports on new studi...

Jeffrey Gruen: The Genetic Roots of Learning Disabilities

15 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan reports on a new study suggesting dramatic health benefits from bursts of vigorous activity; Howie explains how genetic science is starting to ...

Kristen Nwanyanwu: Vision and Equity

08 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan reports on new research on effective prostate cancer screening; Howie explores the potential of the AI language model ChatGPT. And they’re jo...

Dr. Eric Topol: Pushing Medicine into the Future

01 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Eric Topol, a physician and writer who is widely recognized both as a leading researcher and a public voice on medi...

Dr. Nancy Brown: The Power of Mentorship

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan reports on a unprecedented recall of ventilators and CPAP machines; Howie discusses a new approach to tackling the issue of antimicrobial resis...

Dr. Vineet Arora: Reinventing Medical Education

17 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan provides updates on R.S.V., flu, and COVID-19; Howie considers the growing use of hallucinogens for treatment of severe depression. And they ar...

Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith: The Systemic Roots of Inequities in Health

10 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan reports on three negative—but striking—trials presented at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting; Howie reflects on the victori...

Dr. Lisa Leffert: Leading in Anesthesiology

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan describes a revealing new study on the long-term impacts of COVID; Howie reflects on the escalating costs of health insurance. And they are joi...

Nicholas Christakis: The Better Angels of Our Nature

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by physician, sociologist, and thinker Nicholas Christakis to talk about how humans have evolved to form powerful connecti...

Dr. Utibe Essien: Who Gets Access to Innovative Treatments?

20 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan reports on a new study testing the effectiveness of the OCD drug fluvoxamine in treating COVID; Howie reflects on the potential of continuous g...

Taking the Pulse

13 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan check in on new research and health issues in the news, including studies on colonoscopies and the timing of hypertension medication,...

Dr. Ania Jastreboff: The Revolution in Obesity Medication

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan look at the plunging cost of sequencing an individual genome, and the problem of concussions among athletes at all levels. And they’...

Ingrid Nembhard: Improving Healthcare Organizations to Improve Health

29 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan discusses the problem of “financial toxicity”—how medical bills can wreak havoc in vulnerable patients’ lives. Howie reflects on the pr...

Jonathan Rothberg: The Scientist-Entrepreneur

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan react to President Joe Biden’s declaration that the pandemic is over. Then they’re joined by Jonathan Rothberg, a Yale-trained sc...

Dr. Jeremy Faust: Is COVID Over? It's Complicated.

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss the confusion over COVID therapeutics, even among professionals. Then they're joined by Dr. Jeremy Faust, a researcher, emerg...

Dr. Esther Choo: The View from the Emergency Department

08 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan outlines his new study tracking excess mortality over the course of the pandemic in the highly vaccinated state of Massachusetts; Howie discuss...

Beating the Outbreaks

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Monkeypox, polio, and COVID-19 have all received the World Health Organization’s rarely used global health emergency designation. Howie and Harlan o...

Dr. James Hamblin: Should You Stop Washing?

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan talk with Dr. James Hamblin, a journalist and a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health. They discuss his approach to com...

Teresa Chahine: The Social Entrepreneur’s Guide to Making Change

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Teresa Chahine, the Sheila and Ron ’92 B.A. Marcelo Senior Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at Yale SOM. They disc...

Jennifer Miller: Scoring the Ethics of Pharma Companies

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss Harlan's large new study tracking the trajectory of patient safety in hospitals, and consider how individuals should resp...

Rethinking Research

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss a concerning new COVID-19 variant, the discovery casting doubt on a major fish-oil study, and the need for new models of fund...

Dr. Rebekah Gee: Can We Bring Family Healthcare to the Home?

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan reviews the latest COVID-19 research, and Howie reflects on the vast ramifications of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. They’re joi...

Gregg Gonsalves: An Inspiring Nonlinear Path to Impact

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale epidemiologist and MacArthur ‘genius’ Gregg Gonsalves to discuss his non-traditional route to improving respon...

Your Co-host’s Remarkable Career

16 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan interviews Howie about his life as a doctor and teacher, including how a radiologist without a PhD got to teach economics at Yale, why he engag...

Dr. Seth Trueger: When the Doctor Becomes a Patient

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Seth Trueger of Northwestern University, who was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder in 2020. They discuss hi...

Thomas Balcezak: Can Hospitals Recover from COVID-19?

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Harlan explains what the research says about the immunity acquired from a COVID-19 infection, and suggests a framework for thinking about exposure ris...

Dr. Amy Justice: Unlocking the Insights in Healthcare Data

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Amy Justice, a Yale clinical epidemiologist. They discuss the influential long-running studies she has conducted us...

Jason Schwartz: Building a Better Vaccine Policy

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Jason Schwartz of the Yale School of Public Health. They discuss what went wrong with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and ...

Dr. Cecelia Calhoun: Taking on Systemic Inequities

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Cecelia Calhoun ’21, a Yale sickle cell disease specialist and a recipient of Yale SOM's Pozen-Commonwealth Fund ...

Dr. Gail D’Onofrio: Grappling with the Opioid Epidemic

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Gail D’Onofrio, Yale's Albert E. Kent Professor of Emergency Medicine. They discuss the medications available f...

Melinda Irwin: Can Nutrition and Exercise Improve Cancer Outcomes?

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan talk with Yale’s Melinda Irwin about her research investigating how lifestyle factors impact the prevention and treatment of cancer...

Sherry Glied: Getting Ready for the Next Pandemic

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

To do better in the next pandemic, Sherry Glied, dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, argues we must en...

Lauren Taylor: Ethics and Public Health

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan talk with NYU’s Lauren Taylor about the “dirty hands problem” and other ethical dilemmas inherent in efforts to improve health.

Zeke Emanuel's Provocative Advice on Making Healthcare Better

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a leading expert on health policy and medical ethics, for a conversation about how to bring greate...

Dr. Daniel Stein: What the Data Says about Your Doctor

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan discuss a new study showing that moderate drinking doesn’t have health benefits after all. Then they’re joined by Dr. Daniel Stei...

Edward Kaplan: What Does Wastewater Reveal about COVID-19?

24 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale operations expert Edward Kaplan, who uses mathematical models to understand a variety of processes. They discuss K...

Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti: Hope for Sickle Cell Patients

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, chief of pediatric hematology and oncology at the Yale School of Medicine and an expert on...

Dr. Kristin Mattocks: Advancing the Health of Women Veterans

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Kristin Mattocks, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts and the Department of Veteran's Affairs. They d...

Dr. Mandy Cohen: Delivering Health, Not Just Healthcare

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan talk with Dr. Mandy Cohen, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and the CEO of Aledade Care...

Dr. Ijeoma Opara: Partnering with a Community

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Howie and Harlan talk with Dr. Ijeoma Opara of the Yale School of Public Health about the impact of persistent violence on mental health among urban ...