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
104 episodes transcribedWhat 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...
As a physician, researcher, and educator, Dr. Cheryl R. Clark wants her students to understand what vision, love, and equity can bring to health care...
In medical school, students learning about illness, pathology, and disease are trained almost exclusively on images of white patients. Even materials...
Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, is known as the birthplace of gynecology. It’s a brutal history, as the field’s “founding father,” J. Marion Sims, adv...
This year in the United States, an estimated 2 million people will receive a new cancer diagnosis, and a growing proportion will be younger adults and...
Overtreatment is a big problem in American health care. The proliferation of unnecessary medical tests and procedures not only harms patients but cost...
Health care is a $4.3 trillion business in the United States, accounting for 18 percent of the nation’s economy. It should come as no surprise then th...
Nearly one in five Americans has medical debt. Black households are disproportionately affected, carrying higher amounts of debt at higher rates. Ber...
