Faculty Viewpoints
Health & Veritas: A Wider View of COVID-19
On the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Dr. Albert Ko, a Yale epidemiologist who has advised Connecticut governor Ned Lamont. They discuss the state of the pandemic, rebuilding global public health infrastructure, and what omicron tells us about future variants.
Health & Veritas: Taming Healthcare Costs
In the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Yale SOM economist Fiona Scott Morton, an expert on competition in healthcare and other industries. They discuss the forces driving up healthcare costs in the U.S. and the steps that Scott Morton and her colleagues have proposed to bring them under control.
Is Climate Risk More than Markets Can Handle?
Yale SOM finance professor Stefano Giglio lays out the unique complications of grappling with climate risk, and explains his own work on stock portfolios that hedge climate change.
Heath & Veritas: Long COVID
In the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Liza Fisher to talk about her experience navigating the medical system and advocating for patients while enduring 18 months of debilitating COVID symptoms.
Is the Fed Ready for the Next Financial Crisis?
Yale SOM’s June Rhee discusses how the lessons of the global financial crisis prepared policymakers for COVID, and what tools they’ll need for future crises.
Health & Veritas: Omicron; The Drug Approval Process
In the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz discuss what we know and don’t know about the newly identified omicron variant. Then they’re joined by Yale’s Dr. Joseph Ross to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the FDA’s process for approving new drugs.
Health & Veritas: AI, Machine Learning, and Medicine
On the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Dr. Rohan Khera, a Yale cardiologist whose research interests include the use of advanced data science tools to improve diagnosis and treatment. They discuss how artificial intelligence and machine learning can supplement human expertise in summarizing current literature, interpreting an electrocardiogram, and other areas.
Health & Veritas: Health Economics
On the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Jason Abaluck, a health economist at Yale SOM. They discuss a massive study co-authored by Abaluck that showed that masks reduce COVID infections in a community setting.
GE’s Split Unravels a Massive Management Mistake
General Electric CEO Larry Culp announced this week that the company would split into three separate firms. Prof. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld writes that Culp was acknowledging the failure of an approach—the highly diversified industrial conglomerate—that dates back to Jack Welch’s tenure in the 1980s.
Health & Veritas: The Saliva Test
On the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Anne Wyllie, the Yale scientist who developed the SalivaDirect test for COVID-19. They discuss the development of the technology and its potential for enabling easier testing in a variety of communities.