Health & Veritas
Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz, two Yale physician-professors, discuss the latest news and ideas in healthcare 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.

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Episodes
- PodcastEpisode 25Duration 35:27
Dr. Lakshmanan Krishnamurti: Hope for Sickle Cell Patients
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 sickle cell disease. They discuss promising new treatments that can effectively cure the painful disease for some patients.
- PodcastEpisode 24Duration 35:17
Dr. Kristin Mattocks: Advancing the Health of Women Veterans
Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Kristin Mattocks, a researcher at the University of Massachusetts and the Department of Veteran's Affairs. They discuss her research on the complexities of healthcare for the growing number of women veterans.
- PodcastEpisode 23Duration 34:53
Dr. Mandy Cohen: Delivering Health, Not Just Healthcare
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 Solutions. They discuss how to create the incentives and infrastructure needed for better outcomes for all patients.
- PodcastEpisode 22Duration 37:19
Dr. Ijeoma Opara: Partnering with a Community
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 youth and the power of community-based participatory research.
- PodcastEpisode 21Duration 33:01
Dr. Saad Omer: Lessons Learned about Vaccine Hesitancy
Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. They discuss mistakes made in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and how to avoid a crisis in childhood immunizations.
- PodcastEpisode 20Duration 33:12
Dr. Emily Wang: Mass Incarceration and Health
Howie and Harlan are joined by Dr. Emily Wang, director of Yale's SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, to discuss the health effects of mass incarceration on the imprisoned and their families and communities.
- PodcastEpisode 19Duration 33:42
Dr. Akiko Iwasaki: Is Long COVID One Disease or Many?
Howie and Harlan talk with Dr. Akiko Iwasaki about her research trying to understand the cause or causes of long COVID, which has over 200 reported symptoms.
- PodcastEpisode 18Duration 31:50
Dr. Randi Epstein: Medical Storytelling
Howie and Harlan discuss two recent studies (one of them co-authored by Harlan) illustrating the health impacts of racism. Then they're joined by Randi Epstein, a physician and journalist whose most recent book is Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything.
- PodcastEpisode 17Duration 31:55
Nathan Grubaugh: Genomic Surveillance
Howie and Harlan are joined by Yale epidemiologist Nathan Grubaugh. They discuss the utility of rapid antigen tests and Grubaugh's work tracking the evolution of COVID-19 variants.
- PodcastEpisode 16Duration 29:02
From COVID or with COVID?
Howie and Harlan talk about the patients who test positive for COVID-19 after being admitted to the hospital for something else, and other health issues in the news, including the explosion in healthcare spending last year, a controversial Alzheimer’s drug, and the consequences of underinsurance in the United States.