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NEJM Interviews
Insightful conversations with leading experts in the field of health care, medical research, policy, and more from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Each episode examines the many complexities found at the junction of medicine and society.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jonathan Oberlander on health care successes and struggles under the Biden administration.
Dr. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Stephen…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Lisa Harris on preparing for the effects on patients and trainees of the likely overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Dr. Lisa Harris is a professor of reproductive health, of obstetrics and gynecology, and of women’s and gender studies at the University of Michigan, where she…
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Do We Need New Covid-19 Vaccines?
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Kushal Kadakia on the 21st Century Cures Act, Cures 2.0, and lessons from Covid-19 for medical product development.
Kushal Kadakia is a student at Harvard Medical School with a background in delivery-system reform. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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Communicating Covid-19 Science
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Jeanne Marrazzo is Director of the Division of Infectious…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Abigail Friedman on policy approaches to combating adolescent vaping and helping adult smokers quit.
Dr. Abigail Friedman is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Lois Lee on reductions in deaths from motor vehicle crashes among children and young adults and increases in firearm-related deaths.
Dr. Lois Lee is an emergency medicine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital and an associate professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at Harvard…
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The Effects of Covid-19 on Children
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Julie Ingelfinger is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen…
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Do the Tobacco Wars Offer Any Lessons for the Vaccine Wars?
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Barry Bloom is from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Hilary Seligman on reforming the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to reduce food insecurity in the United States.
Dr. Hilary Seligman is a professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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Do We Need a Fourth Dose of Covid Vaccine?
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Vikas Saini on the Choosing Wisely campaign and approaches for addressing low-value care.
Dr. Vikas Saini is the president of the Lown Institute. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. E.J. Rourke. Ten…
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Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccination in Children
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Christopher Robertson on the outcomes and implications of cases in which patients sued hospitals for access to ivermectin.
Prof. Christopher Robertson is a professor at the Boston University School of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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Covid-19 — Why We Publish What We Do
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jorge Rodriguez on new U.S. legislation and the role of health care organizations in addressing digital divides.
Dr. Jorge Rodriguez is a hospitalist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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Can We Make More Effective Covid-19 Vaccines?
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Melissa Wachterman on cultural factors and financial incentives driving where people in the United States choose to die.
Dr. Melissa Wachterman is a palliative care physician and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is…
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Making Covid-19 Vaccines Available around the World
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. David Hunter is a professor of epidemiology and medicine at…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Rachel Sachs on the balance between safeguarding access to high-quality care and constraining drug spending.
Prof. Rachel Sachs is a professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Michelle Mello on individual rights and state and federal powers to regulate health matters in the United States.
Prof. Michelle Mello is a professor of law and of health policy at Stanford University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of…
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Using Our Covid-19 Experience to Develop Vaccines More Quickly
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Patricia Zettler on conflicts between state and federal law and access to mifepristone.
Prof. Patricia Zettler is an associate professor of law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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Understanding the Omicron Variant of SARS-CoV-2
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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A New Antiviral against Covid-19
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Lee Fleisher on building a resilient health care delivery system that can maintain high safety levels in times of crisis.
Dr. Lee Fleisher is the chief medical officer and director of the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
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Covid-19 as an Endemic Disease
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Joseph Graves, Jr. on socially defined races, human biologic variation, and disease.
Dr. Joseph Graves, Jr. is a professor of biological sciences at North Carolina A&T State University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Tiffany Green on how economics can help guide public health policy.
Dr. Tiffany Green is an assistant professor in the Departments of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of…
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Studying Long Covid
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Clifford Rosen is head of the Center for Clinical and…
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Addressing the Omicron Variant of SARS-CoV-2
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Joshua Barocas is an infectious disease specialist at the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. David Morens on the need for developing broadly protective coronavirus vaccines.
Dr. David Morens is senior advisor to the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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Crushing the Covid-19 Curve
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Harvey Fineberg is president of the Gordon and Betty Moore…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. L. Ebony Boulware on the importance of racial and ethnic diversification and increased focus on equity in clinical and translational research.
Dr. L. Ebony Boulware is chief of the Duke Division of General Internal Medicine and vice dean for translational science at the Duke University School of…
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Covid-19 Takeaways at Podcast 100
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Debra Weinstein on the pandemic’s effects on graduate medical education and what we can learn from them.
Dr. Debra Weinstein is executive vice dean for academic affairs at the University of Michigan Medical School, chief academic officer for Michigan Medicine, and…
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Covid-19 — The Outlook in Europe
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Christian Drosten is a virologist at Charité…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Joshua Sharfstein on the haphazard organization of U.S. public health at the local, state, and federal levels.
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health…
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Covid-19 Vaccination and the Omicron Variant
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jennifer Lucero on aversive racism as a contributor to structural racism in academic medicine.
Jennifer Lucero is an associate professor and the associate dean for admissions at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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A Potential New Agent to Treat Covid-19
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Nicole Redvers on Covid-19 vaccination efforts in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
Dr. Nicole Redvers is an assistant professor of family and community medicine at the University of North Dakota. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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How Much Protection Does Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection Provide?
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jacob Bor on barriers to disseminating information about HIV treatment as a strategy for preventing virus transmission.
Dr. Jacob Bor is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Health at the Boston University School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Janine Knudsen on the experience of safety-net health systems during the Covid-19 pandemic and supporting them moving forward.
Dr. Janine Knudsen is a medical director in the Office of the Commissioner at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and a clinical…
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Waning Immunity against SARS-CoV-2
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Colleen Barry on using public policy to improve population health.
Colleen Barry is dean of the Cornell University Brooks School of Public Policy. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the…
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The Omicron Variant of SARS-CoV-2
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Salim Abdool Karim is a clinical infectious disease…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. James Robinson on the aducanumab experience and the structural factors responsible for high drug prices in the United States.
Dr. James Robinson is a professor of health economics at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer…
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What’s Gone Right in Our Battle against Covid-19
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Rena Conti on strategies for regulating drug prices while promoting the development of new pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Rena Conti is an associate professor in the Department of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at the Boston University Questrom School of Business. Stephen…
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The Legal Basis for Covid-19 Restrictions and Mandates
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Michelle Mello is Professor of Law and of Health Policy at…
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The Legal Basis for Covid-19 Restrictions and Mandates
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Michelle Mello is Professor of Law and of Health Policy at…
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Covid-19 in Brazil and New Evidence for Vaccinating Younger Children
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Beatriz Grinsztejn is head of the STD/AIDS Clinical Research…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jeffrey Baker on a short-lived 1921 law that supported U.S. women and children.
Dr. Jeffrey Baker is the director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine. Stephen…
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Do We Have the Tools to End the Covid-19 Pandemic?
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Elena Fuentes-Afflick on how focusing on the health and needs of subpopulations can advance population health.
Dr. Elena Fuentes-Afflick is chief of pediatrics at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and vice dean for academic affairs at the…
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A New Monoclonal Antibody for Covid-19 and Potential Vaccination for Children
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Marshall Chin on gaps and inequities in the health care system’s approach to managing chronic diseases.
Dr. Marshall Chin is a professor of healthcare ethics in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the…
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A New Look at Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive…