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
99 episodes transcribedOn this week’s episode of The Dose, host Joel Bervell speaks with Dr. Ziad Obermeyer, from the University of California Berkeley’s School of Public He...
On this special season of The Dose, guest host Joel Bervell is hosting a series of conversations with experts and leaders in health equity. In examini...
Joel Bervell joins The Dose to host a special season examining equity in health care. Joel has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok...
The maternal mortality rate in the United States is more than double that of our peers – and it’s especially high among Black birthing people. Why? Th...
What people eat, where they live, and how much they earn can impact their overall health more than the medical care they receive — sometimes much more...
In post-Roe America, many women seeking abortions are treading on landmines, particularly in states where access is banned or severely restricted. On...
The midterm elections are around the corner, and health care is likely to be a major factor in how Americans vote. Abortion and reproductive health ac...
Bills targeting the rights of LGBTQ+ people are under consideration in state legislatures across the country. Many aim to make it more difficult for t...
Earlier this week, President Biden declared the pandemic over. This tracks with public opinion: most Americans have long abandoned their masks, and fe...
Among other things, the Inflation Reduction Act is being hailed as a potential breakthrough in making health care more affordable. But what does this...
Social programs like Medicaid are supposed to help people, but often they reproduce racial inequities — and sometimes actually create them. That’s bec...
Climate change can have a devastating impact on our health. When people are injured or exposed to disease related to floods or fires, it’s up to healt...
The Dose will be taking a short summer break while our team works on brand-new episodes for the next season. Listen to our season finale, in which we...
A well-functioning public health system is vital to keeping individuals, and the population at large, safe and healthy. Except that success is often i...
Racial bias in medical care extends all the way to the prescription pad. Research shows that people of color are less likely to receive the most effec...
Nurses in the United States are experiencing burnout at unprecedented rates. More than two years into the pandemic, they are still processing the trau...
When a federal judge lifted the national mask mandate on airplanes, trains, and other public transportation, some Americans broke out the champagne. O...
Access to health care is a constitutional right for the 2 million Americans in our criminal justice system. For some of those incarcerated – overwhelm...
In the face of overwhelming demand for behavioral health services, the unmet needs of one group stands out: Black and brown teenagers. One rea...
Although primary care is the lifeline of a health care system, the United States spends less on it, and more on specialty care, than other high-income...
