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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Anne Wyllie: The Latest on Omicron
Howie and Harlan discuss the state of the omicron surge and what we know and don’t know about the variant. Then they’re joined by Yale scientist Anne Wyllie, whose new research casts doubt on the ability of rapid antigen tests to detect asymptomatic omicron infections.
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Dr. Albert Ko: A Wider View of COVID-19
Howie and Harlan 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.