Healthcare
An Inspiring Nonlinear Path to Impact
On the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz are joined by Yale epidemiologist and MacArthur ‘genius’ Gregg Gonsalves to discuss his non-traditional route to improving responses to global public health challenges.

Health & Veritas: Lessons Learned about Vaccine Hesitancy
On the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz 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.
Health & Veritas: Mass Incarceration and Health
In the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz 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.
Health & Veritas: Is Long COVID One Disease or Many?
On the Health & Veritas podcast, Yale physician-professors Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz talk with Dr. Akiko Iwasaki about her research trying to understand the cause or causes of long COVID, which has more than 200 reported symptoms.
Health & Veritas: Medical Storytelling
On the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz 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.
Medicare Helps Close Racial Gaps in Access to Healthcare
In a new study, Yale SOM’s Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and his co-authors use the transition to Medicare eligibility to test whether universal health coverage can help reduce racial disparities in health.
Health & Veritas: From COVID or with COVID?
On the latest episode of the Health & Veritas podcast, Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz 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.
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.
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.
Navigating a New Now: What a New York City Doctor Has Learned During the Pandemic
Dr. Charles Powell ’19, chief of pulmonary critical care for Mount Sinai, says that promising new approaches to research, diagnosis, and treatment have emerged from the devastation.