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Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy Podcast
Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz, two Yale physician-professors, discuss the latest news and ideas in healthcare—including new research, AI in medicine, federal health policy, value-based care, healthcare innovation and entrepreneurship, and much more—and seek out the truth amid the noise. Produced with the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Public Health. New episodes are available every Thursday.
Episodes
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastSeth Berkowitz: The Power Problem
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 lacking the…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAzita Emami: Educating Nurse-Leaders
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 seat at the…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAmerica's Healthcare Paradox and Other News
Howie and Harlan discuss the alarming healthcare cuts proposed in the budget bill currently moving through Congress, recent breakthroughs in HIV prevention and…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastStephen Waxman: Easing the Horrors of Chronic Pain
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 ravages…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastThe 'Big Beautiful Bill' and Other News
Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare issues making headlines, including public attitudes toward the Medicaid cuts in the budget bill making its way…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastSarah DeSilvey: Creating Space for Healing
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 tracking…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastDave Chokshi: Lessons from the Front Lines of the Pandemic
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 Health…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastLive at the Yale Innovation Summit 2025
In a special episode recorded at Connecticut's largest entrepreneurship event, Howie and guest host Megan Ranney, the dean of the Yale School of Public Health…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastRebekah Gee: Improving Health, One Family at a Time
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 reports…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastJames Dodington: Protecting Kids from Gun Violence
Howie and Harlan are joined by James Dodington, a Yale pediatric emergency medicine physician and an expert in community-based violence prevention. Harlan…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastThomas Gill: The Secrets to an Active Old Age
Howie and Harlan are joined by Thomas Gill, a Yale geriatrician whose research tracks the factors that contribute to disability in older adults—and those that…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastJoel Bervell: The Healthcare Communicator
Howie and Harlan are joined by Joel Bervell, a recent medical school graduate who uses social media platforms to combat misinformation and explain racial…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAfib, AI Agents, and Other News
Howie reflects on his decades-long experience with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and the procedure that has changed his life. Howie and Harlan report on…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastDeepak D'Souza: Perils of Cannabis and Promise of Psychedelics
Deepak D'Souza, the Vikram Sodhi '92 Professor of Psychiatry at Yale, explains risks from highly potent cannabinoids and research on treating mental health…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastEvan Sussman: Expanding Access to Fertility Drugs
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 the United…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAlexi Nazem: Building Healthcare Solutions
Howie and Harlan are joined by Alexi Nazem, a Yale-trained internist who co-founded the healthcare staffing company Nomad Health and now leads healthcare…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastRyan Schwarz: Thinking Differently about the Primary Care Crisis
Howie and Harlan are joined by Ryan Schwarz, a Yale-trained MD-MBA who oversees accountable care for the Massachusetts Medicaid program, to discuss new models…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastMark McClellan: An Economic Lens on Healthcare
Howie and Harlan are joined by Mark McLellan, a physician, economist, and longtime public servant, to discuss lessons learned from the COVID-19 response and…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAging in Bursts and Other News
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 agencies, the…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastSarah Taylor: The Science of Breastfeeding
Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale neonatologist Sarah Taylor to discuss our growing understanding of breastfeeding, including the active role that infants…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastMichael Dunne: Confronting the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis
Howie and Harlan are joined by infectious disease specialist Michael Dunne to discuss the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance and what's needed to…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastPaul Lombardo: Reckoning with the Dark History of Eugenics
Howie and Harlan are joined by legal historian Paul Lombardo to discuss his work exploring the role of the legal and medical establishments in eugenics and…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastDeborah Rhodes: A Breast-Cancer Screening Breakthrough
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 discuss…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastThe AI in the Doctor's Office and Other News
Howie and Harlan discuss a breakthrough pain medication, studies on AI-assisted medicine, the explosion of sports gambling, and the health consequences of the…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastLisa Rosenbaum: Medicine, Well-Being, and Victimhood
Howie and Harlan are joined by Lisa Rosenbaum, a cardiologist and the national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, to discuss her writing…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastSusan Mayne: Keeping Food Safe
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, to discuss…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastSachin Jain: Has Managed Care Lost Its Way?
Howie and Harlan are joined by Sachin Jain, CEO of the nonprofit Scan Health Plan, who argues that the managed care industry must dramatically reorient itself…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastPerverse Incentives in Healthcare and Other News
Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines, including misaligned incentives keeping medicine from its mission, burdensome out-of-pockets costs…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastDana Dunne: Learning to Learn
Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale physician Dana Dunne, who leads a new coaching program designed to help medical students develop a lifelong orientation…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastJaewon Ryu: The Power of Integrated Care
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 spreading…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAaron Kesselheim: Law, Policy, and Health
Howie and Harlan are joined by Aaron Kesselheim, a physician, attorney, and public health expert, to discuss the shifting legal landscape for healthcare…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastVin Gupta: Impact at Scale
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 reports on the…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastHalle Tecco: Investing in Women's Health
Howie and Harlan are joined by investor and entrepreneur Halle Tecco to discuss her work connecting the worlds of technology and healthcare, and her latest…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastRahul Rajkumar: Intensive Home-Based Care for High-Need Patients
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 Medicare…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastMedicine-Life Balance and Other News
Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines, including generational shifts in doctors' approach to work, a promising vaccine for norovirus, the…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastStephen Knight: Investing in Biotech Solutions
Howie and Harlan are joined by Stephen Knight, president and managing partner of the healthcare and technology venture capital firm F-Prime Capital, to discuss…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastMichael Sherling: Building a Better Electronic Health Record
Howie and Harlan are joined by Michael Sherling, a dermatologist and a founder of Modernizing Medicine, which aims to save doctors time with an intelligent…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastThe Physician Shortage and Other News
Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare issues in the headlines, including a powerful—but dangerous—new gene therapy, racial disparities in excess…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastMax Laurans: An Entrepreneurial Life in Medicine
Howie and Harlan are joined by Max Laurans, a Yale neurosurgeon and hospital administrator, and a founder of the healthcare staffing company Nomad Health…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastSurgeon General Vivek Murthy: Crises and Common Ground
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 Yale School…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastBoosters, Brain Age, and Other News
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, and a rare…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAnia Jastreboff: The Transformative Obesity Drugs
Howie and Harlan are joined by Ania Jastreboff, a Yale endocrinologist and an expert on obesity medication, to talk about the remarkable range of diseases…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastMargaret McGovern: Building an Integrated Health System
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 physician…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastLee Schwamm: Smarter Healthcare Systems With AI
Howie and Harlan are joined by Lee Schwamm, associate dean for digital strategy and transformation for Yale School of Medicine and chief digital health officer…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastJoshua Sharfstein: Policy and Health
Howie and Harlan are joined by Joshua Sharfstein, a longtime public health official in federal, state, and local government, to discuss the state of the opioid…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastKate Goodrich: A Better Model for Care
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 outcomes…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastTimothy Westmoreland: Healthcare at the Supreme Court
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 Supreme Court…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAn HIV Breakthrough and Other News
Howie and Harlan catch up on healthcare headlines, including the politics of treating gun violence as a public health crisis, the growing evidence for the…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastLisa Suter: Medicine, Measurement, and Equity
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 Research &…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAnna Reisman: Bringing the Humanities to Medicine
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 care she…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastMitesh Rao: Democratizing Healthcare Data
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 layer of…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastLive at the Yale Innovation Summit
A special episode recorded at the Yale Innovation Summit, which brings together entrepreneurs and investors in the arts, biotech, climate, health, and tech…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastChima Ndumele: Reinventing Medicaid
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 keep…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastRuth Katz: Crafting Landmark Legislation
Howie and Harlan are joined by Ruth Katz, executive director of the Aspen Institute's Health, Medicine & Society Program and a former Capitol Hill staffer, to…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastGreg Licholai: Breaking through the Innovation Bottleneck
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 research…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastThe Primary Care Crisis and Other News
Howie and Harlan discuss health and healthcare headlines. From flatlining telehealth to Walmart closing retail clinics to months-long waits for healthcare…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastArthur Caplan: Medicine's Toughest Ethical Questions
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 medical…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastScott Berkowitz: Value-Based Care and Population Health
Howie and Harlan are joined by Scott Berkowitz '03, cardiologist and chief population health officer at Johns Hopkins Medicine, to discuss the necessity of…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastAtheendar Venkataramani: Opportunity, Hope, and Health
Howie and Harlan are joined by Atheendar Venkataramani, a physician, health economist, and director of the Perelman School of Medicine's Opportunity for Health…
Health & Veritas: Yale's Healthcare and Health Policy PodcastKate McEvoy: How Medicaid Is Driving Healthcare Innovation
Howie and Harlan are joined by Kate McEvoy, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, to discuss the programs' underappreciated…