The Yale School of Public Health is now a proud sponsor of Health & Veritas, a lively and topical podcast hosted by YSPH and Yale School of Medicine physician-professors Drs. Howard P. Forman and Harlan M. Krumholz. The weekly podcast, a joint production of YSPH and the School of Management, began in September 2021 and new episodes go online every Thursday.
Each week, Forman and Krumholz discuss timely issues in public health, medicine, and health care with YSM and YSPH faculty, administrators, alumni, and staff as well as with other experts in various health-related fields.
Incoming YSPH Dean Megan Ranney was the podcast’s guest for Episode 77 on April 20. Ranney discussed how she got into public health, her vision for YSPH, her role as an emergency medicine physician, her activism in addressing gun violence, and what she sees as the future of public health.
Other recent guests include YSPH and YSM Professor Cary Gross, who spoke about effective cancer screening; Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, who discussed the systemic roots of inequities in health; Senior Lecturer Teresa Chahine, who spoke about social entrepreneurship; and MacArthur ‘genius’ and YSPH Associate Professor Gregg Gonsalves, who discussed his non-traditional route to improving responses to global health challenges.
“When Dr. Krumholz and I began this adventure into podcasting, we wanted to truly bring light and nuance to topics in public health and health, and we have been heartened that our audience has grown so much and that feedback is so positive,” said Forman, who added that listenership has grown more than 300% in the past year.
Upcoming podcast guests include:
- Abbe R. Gluck, Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School and Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine) at the Yale School of Medicine
- Zack Cooper, Associate Professor of Public Health (Health Policy), and Associate Professor of Economics, and Associate Professor in the Institution for Social and Policy Studies
- Dr. David Fiellin, MD, Professor of General Medicine (General Medicine), of Emergency Medicine, and of Public Health
- Hil Moss, Co-founder and CEO of VivorCare, the first virtual cancer survivorship clinic; and
- Dr. Melissa Davis, MD, Assistant Professor at YSM, and Vice Chair for Imaging Informatics, Radiology & Biomedical Imaging.
A full archive of past episodes and more information about the podcast can be found by visiting the Health & Veritas website.
Dr. Forman is a professor of Diagnostic Radiology, of Public Health (Health Policy), Economics, and Management.
He directs the Health Care Management Program at YSPH and teaches health care economics in the Yale College Economics Department. He is the faculty founder and director of the MD/MBA program as well as the faculty director of the health care focus area in the School of Management’s MBA for Executives program. He is the co-founder and special advisor to the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership program.
As a practicing emergency/trauma radiologist, Dr. Forman is actively involved in patient care and issues related to financial administration, health care compliance, and contracting. His research has focused on improving imaging services delivery through better access to information. He has worked as a health policy fellow in the U.S. Senate, on Medicare legislation.
Dr. Krumholz is a cardiologist and scientist at Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital.
He is the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine, and Professor in the Institute of Social Policy Studies, of Investigative Medicine, and of Public Health (Health Policy). He is a leading expert in the science to improve the quality and efficiency of care, eliminate disparities and promote equity, improve integrity and transparency in medical research, engage patients in their care, and avoid wasteful practices. His most recent efforts are focused on harnessing the digital transformation in health care to accelerate knowledge generation and facilitate the delivery of care aligned with each patient’s needs and preferences.
Dr. Krumholz also directs the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE), which is dedicated to improving health and health care through research, tools, and practices that produce discovery, heighten accountability, and promote better public health and clinical care. He also co-founded and co-leads the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project, designed to increase access to clinical research data and promote their use to generate new knowledge. Dr. Krumholz also co-founded and co-leads medRxiv, a non-profit preprint server for the medical and health sciences. He was a founding faculty co-director of the Yale Center for Research Computing.