Healthy Dialogue

Interview with Chien-Wen W. Tseng, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of USPSTF Recommendation: Screening for Hearing Loss in Older Adults

Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Clyde W. Yancy, MD, MSc, of Northwestern University, and David R. Williams, PhD, MPH, of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, join JAMA Editor in Chief Howard Bauchner, MD, to discuss racism and structural racism in health care and medicine. Recorded March 16, 2021.

Coronavirus trends, variants, vaccines, treatment, and more. JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, also from the University of Michigan, and Emory University School of Medicine's Carlos del Rio, MD, return to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the latest in COVID-19 medicine and public health. Recorded March 15, 2021. Related Content: COVID-19 in 2021—Continuing Uncertainty Coronavirus Update Wi...

Interview with Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, author of National Initiatives to Prevent Myocardial Infarction and Stroke

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, author of USPSTF Recommendation—Screening for Lung Cancer

Genetic variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are emerging but so far do not seem to have caused breakthrough infections in people with previous infection or in those who have been vaccinated. John P. Moore, PhD, of Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York, joins JAMA's Q&A series for an update on the latest variants and what you need to know. Recorded March 4, 2021. Related Article: App...

Interview with Christopher J.L. Murray, MD, DPhil, author of The Potential Future of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Will SARS-CoV-2 Become a Recurrent Seasonal Infection?

Nancy E. Messonnier, MD is director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and leads the CDC's efforts on COVID-19 vaccination. She joins JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the agency's response to emerging coronavirus variants, the FDA advisory hearings on the new Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and other agency activi...

Interview with James C. Robinson, PhD, author of Funding of Pharmaceutical Innovation During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Interview with Richard Saitz, MD, author of Removing One Barrier to Opioid Use Disorder Treatment: Is It Enough and with Yngvild Olsen, MD, author of Overcoming Barriers to Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder    

Interview with Ik-Kyung Jang, MD, PhD, author of New Insights Into Plaque Erosion as a Mechanism of Acute Coronary Syndromes

CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the agency's response to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants, implications for the planned vaccine mobilization strategy, the upcoming Johnson & Johnson vaccine FDA advisory hearings, strategies for reopening K-12 schools, and other agency activities and priorities related to COVID-19 control. Recorded February 17, 2021....

Paul A. Offit, MD, of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia returns to JAMA's Q&A series to provide an update on the emergence of COVID-19 variants and their implications for vaccine development, including the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, scheduled for a US Food and Drug Administration VRBPAC hearing on February 26, 2021. Recorded February 11, 2021. Related Article: SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines and the Gro...

As US vaccine distribution expands to include younger healthier populations, questions about vaccine safety in women of childbearing age have become more urgent. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center's Catherine Y. Spong, MD, and Emory University School of Medicine's Denise J. Jamieson, MD, MPH, both eminent obstetrician/gynecologists, join JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the safety of the...

Interview with Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, author of Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines

Interview with Donald Berwick, MD, author of The Triple Aim Applied to Correctional Health Systems

2021 has brought news of emerging SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants that increase transmissibility. Will they diminish vaccine efficacy and lead us to lose pandemic control? University of Michigan's Adam Lauring, MD, PhD, a molecular virologist who uses evolutionary theory to study viral transmission and pathogenesis, joins JAMA's Q&A series to explain the variants and what they mean for public health....

NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, MD, returns to JAMA's Q&A series to discuss Shifts in the US pandemic response under the Biden administration Emerging genetic variants and implications for vaccine efficacy Prospects for new vaccine approvals and more. Related Article: Preventing the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 With Masks and Other "Low-tech" Interventions

Interview with Philip A. Pizzo, MD, author of When Physicians Engage in Practices That Threaten the Nation's Health

Interview with Michael J. Barry, MD, USPSTF member and coauthor of USPSTF Recommendation: Carotid Artery Stenosis

Interview with Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, author of Ensuring Quality in the Era of Virtual Care and Abraham Verghese, MD, author of Virtual Care and Real Connection in the Era of COVID-19

Peter Piot, MD, PhD, director of The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is a legend in global health, having been involved in identification of HIV and Ebola virus in Africa. He was founding executive director of UNAIDS and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1995 to 2008. He joins JAMA's Q&A series to discuss the global public health response to COVID-19 past, present,...

Interview with Frederick P. Rivara, MD, author of Three Interventions to Address the Other Pandemic—Firearm Injury and Death

President Biden has released a health care plan that proposes reducing the age of eligibility for Medicare to 60 years and introducing a public option. Larry Levitt, MPP, Executive Vice President for Health Policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, JAMA Associate Editor Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, Co-Director of the Center for Health Economics and Policy (CHEP) at Washington University School of Me...

Interview with John P A Ioannidis, MD, DSC, author of Recalibrating the Use of Race in Medical Research