LaShyra Nolen, the first Black woman to serve as Harvard Medical School’s student council president, joins us to discuss health equity, community engagement, and the future of health professional school curricular design.
Dr Hannah Janeway of the Refugee Health Alliance explains why good health care for refugees and asylum seekers at the US southern border might require border abolition.
Alisson Sesso talks about the devastating impacts of medical debt and how the nonprofit organization, RIP Medical Debt, helps to abolish this financial burden.
Dr Paris Adkins-Jackson proposes how to measure racism in academic health centers, as one responsibility of medicine is to rebuild trust with marginalized communities.
Dr Matthew Wynia talks about activating crisis standards of care in response to the rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations that are pushing the limits of health systems' critical care capacity.
Dr Ariane Lewis discusses how we can navigate uncertainty and ambiguity about brain death by understanding clinical criteria for brain death determination and how our approaches to death are culturally and socially situated.
