A Health Podyssey

Welcome to a special four-part series from Health Affairs on the intersection of food, nutrition, and health. This special series compliments the release of a theme issue on food, nutrition, and health to be released April 7, 2025. In the first episode, Health Affairs' Ellen Bayer speaks with Na'Taki Osborne Jelks from Spelman College on the topic of water insecurity. Pre-order the Food, Nutrition...

On March 12th , A Health Podyssey 's Rob Lott invited Yashaswini Singh of Brown University to the program for a virtual podcast taping to discuss her paper on the effect of private equity on physician turnover . The two discussed the paper and took questions from the audience in attendance. Order the March 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely avai...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Erica Eliason of Rutgers University on her recent paper that explores how continuous eligibility policies and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) structure affected children's coverage loss during Medicaid unwinding. Order the March 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Richard Leuchter  from  the University of California Los Angeles on his recent paper that explores how socioeconomically disadvantaged groups may have underused emergency departments for non-avoidable visits. Order the March 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Jihye Han of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University on her recent paper that takes a closer look at the regulatory treatments for first-in-class drugs and how those differ between the US and Europe. Order the March 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Jennifer Wolff of John Hopkins University about her recent paper that explores the increasing number of family caregivers that are assisting older US adults , including adults with dementia. Order the February 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that wa...

Health Affairs ' Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott interviews Paige Nong of the University of Minnesota about her recent paper that evaluates and explores the current use of artificial intelligence and predictive models in US hospitals . Order the January 2025 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your sup...

A Health Podyssey is taking a holiday break. We will return to regular production on January 14, 2025. Until that time, enjoy a special series we created on our other podcast, Health Affairs This Week . In this special series, Rob Lott gets an update on health policy briefs surrounding the release of our theme issue on housing and health , which was released in February of this year. In this episo...

Guest: Philip Alberti, Founding Director, AAMC Center for Health Justice & Senior Director, Health Equity Research & Policy at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Philip Alberti from the AAMC to discuss health outcomes and what it means to achieve health equity across sectors. This season is s...

A Health Podyssey is taking a holiday break. We will return to regular production on January 14, 2025. Until that time, enjoy a special series we created on our other podcast, Health Affairs This Week . In this special series, Rob Lott gets an update on health policy briefs surrounding the release of our theme issue on housing and health , which was released in February of this year. In this episo...

Guest: Andrew Winn, Executive Director, Insight Garden Program Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Andrew Winn from the Insight Garden Program about the relationship between the environment and people in incarcerated spaces and access to nature as a human right. This season is sponsored by Deloitte. Learn more about Deloitte's work with Drivers of Heal...

A Health Podyssey is taking a holiday break. We will return to regular production on January 14, 2025. Until that time, enjoy a special series we created on our other podcast, Health Affairs This Week . In this special series, Rob Lott gets an update on health policy briefs surrounding the release of our theme issue on housing and health , which was released in February of this year. In this episo...

Guest: Sarah Hemminger, Co-Founder and CEO, Thread Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Sarah Hemminger of Thread about social isolation and wellbeing, particularly for young people. They discuss innovative ways to connect people and achieve transformational change.  This season is sponsored by Deloitte. Learn more about Deloitte's work with Drivers of...

A Health Podyssey is taking a holiday break. We will return to regular production on January 14, 2025. Until that time, enjoy a special series we created on our other podcast, Health Affairs This Week . In this special series, Rob Lott gets an update on health policy briefs surrounding the release of our theme issue on housing and health , which was released in February of this year. In this episo...

Guest: Alex Keuroghlian, Director, Division of Education and Trainings, The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Alex Keuroghlian from Fenway Health about the role that identity plays in the health care workforce. They also discuss best practices for creating safe spaces of care for LGBTQIA+ populations and health policie...

Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Richard Hughes IV of Epstein Becker Green and George Washington University about his recent paper that reviewed school-entry vaccine policies on a state level and observed how the responses to federal recommendations varied. Order the November 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - an...

Guest: Kimberly Driggins, Executive Director, Washington Housing Conservancy Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Kimberly Driggins from the Washington Housing Conservancy about the connections between housing security, economic mobility, and health outcomes. They also explore what it will take to reinvent an equitable, anti-racist housing system.  This...

Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Jared Walker of Dollar For about his recent paper that explores the widely varying criteria amongst US nonprofit hospitals to determine who qualifies for free and discounted charity care. Order the November 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With...

Guest: Dion Dawson, Chief Dreamer and CEO, Dion's Chicago Dream In the first episode of the second season of Research and Justice For All , host Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, Pediatrician and Child and Public Health Advocate, interviews Dion Dawson from Dion's Chicago Dream about innovative ways to address food insecurity. They also explore the nonprofit industrial complex and the systemic link between hung...

Welcome to the 200th episode of A Health Podyssey ! For our 200th episode, Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil invites Leemore Dafny of the Harvard Business School back to the program to discuss vertical integration in the health care sector , observations on what impacts it may have on the future state of markets, and what the regulatory response has been so far. Dafny joined us for our 10...

Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Janice Jhang of Harvard University about her recent paper that explores how regulatory and market forces are driving adoption of biosimilars. Order the November 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your support , we can continue to keep our di...

Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Naomi Zewde of the University of California, Los Angeles about her recent paper exploring how high-deductible health insurance plans may exacerbate racial and ethnic wealth disparities . Order the October 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With y...

Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Avni Gupta of the Commonwealth Fund about her recent paper that explores cost-associated unmet dental, vision, and hearing needs among low-income Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries. Order the October 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your sup...

Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Allison Hoffman of University of Pennsylvania about her recent paper that explores opportunities to simplify Medicaid home and community-based services in the age of rebalancing. Order the October 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your supp...

Health Affairs ' Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil interviews Pragya Kakani of Cornell University about her recent paper exploring the association between Medicare Part D protected-class policy and lower drug rebates . Order the October 2024 issue of Health Affairs . Currently, more than 70 percent of our content is freely available - and we'd like to keep it that way. With your support , we can continue...