Show Notes
Health Affairs Pathways explores the avenues and alleyways of the health care system through a variety of storytelling – from investigative journalism and health policy explainers to long-form interviews.
Unique series are created by fellows at the Health Affairs Podcast Fellowship Program, designed to support early to mid-stage professionals pursue an audio project, tell a unique health care story, and highlight voices that may not be heard otherwise.
Our third and final series for the 2021 cohort, The Earth Disease, is from Jared Downing, a journalist based in New York City. In this series, Jared Downing explores the intersection of climate change and health policy.
Jared produced this series in 2021 as part of the Health Affairs Podcast Fellowship Program.
Guests on this episode include Ashish Jha, Aaron Bernstein from the
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mariel Fonteyn from
Americares, and Ed Gerber from the
Lestonnac Free Clinic.
At the time of this recording, Dr. Jha was the Dean of the
Brown University School of Public Health. He is currently the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator and Counselor to the President. The views represented in this podcast are his own.
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What is Health Affairs Pathways?
Health Affairs Pathways explores the avenues and alleyways of the health care system through a variety of storytelling – from investigative journalism and health policy explainers to long-form interviews.
Unique series are created by fellows at Health Affairs Podcast Fellowship Program, designed to support early to mid-stage professionals pursue an audio project, tell a unique health care story, and highlight voices that may not be heard otherwise.
Join the Health Affairs Podcast Fellows on their journey to unearth a new health care story on such topics as health care consolidation, independent primary care, behavioral health, climate change, health equity, and more.
Health Affairs, the leading journal of health policy research, offers a nonpartisan forum to promote analysis and discussions on improving health.