The Dose is the Commonwealth Fund’s podcast that presents fresh ideas, new perspectives, and compelling conversations about where health care is headed. Join host Joel Bervell this season for conversations with leading and emerging experts in health care and health policy. Get the Dose in your inbox: https://thedose.show/signup
111 episodes transcribedA new movement in the United States is taking shape in maternal care, one that seeks to restore trust, center women, and protect lives. On this episod...
AI therapy for children with anxiety, mental health training for staff at nonprofits that work with young people, and an "art pharmacy" that prescribe...
Across Oklahoma, a community-powered doula network is reshaping what equitable maternal care looks like. On this episode of The Dose, Dr. Joel Bervell...
“The proportion of energy and resources that goes into getting paid instead of taking care of patients is out of whack.” That’s Dr. Mai Pham’s assessm...
Medical care for people with obesity is changing rapidly. Body mass index, or BMI, was once considered the gold standard for diagnosis but has proven...
“If people stop trusting science, they stop trusting each other. That has huge implications for everything, not just medicine.” Science, and medical s...
Look forward to a new season of The Dose, featuring your host Dr. Joel Bervell, launching this Friday.
What happens when your zip code threatens your health? Broadband access is often framed as a tech issue, but in some rural communities it’s a matter o...
Data is the engine of health innovation, but too often it can’t tell the full story. On this week’s episode of The Dose, Dr. Sema Sgaier joins host Jo...
We’re in a pivotal moment for health care equity and public health. Systems for tracking data on maternal mortality and chronic disease are being dism...
When private equity firms buy your local hospital, your primary care doctor’s office, or your local nursing home, they profit. But what happens to tho...
As the American Medical Association’s first chief equity officer, Dr. Aletha Maybank guided the legacy medical institution through a difficult reckoni...
Yes, the planet is getting hotter, tropical storms are becoming ever more fierce, and the Arctic is melting — but what’s that got to do with health ca...
As climate change intensifies and New Yorkers face record-breaking heat, the city is taking new measures to protect residents’ health. Landlords will...
Evidence of a mental health crisis is everywhere — from the recent surgeon general advisory about social media’s effects on our youth to the pandemic’...
Moving the needle on health care access and health disparities is no easy task. Inequities for people of color are embedded in the U.S. health system,...
In this special two-part edition of The Dose, we’re bringing listeners along to an exhilarating gathering of health care’s most innovative thinkers an...
In this special, two-part edition of The Dose, we’re bringing listeners along to an exhilarating gathering of health care’s most innovative thinkers a...
This month, a 12-year-old boy in Washington, D.C., became the first person in the world to undergo a grueling gene therapy treatment that could cure...
In Dr. Joseph Betancourt’s vision for the future of U.S. health care, “any patient who goes to any health care system around the country should get th...
