Healthy Dialogue
JAMA Network
Go beyond the latest discoveries with nuanced, in-depth conversations in Healthy Dialogue, a podcast from the JAMA Network. Host and JAMA Senior Editor, Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, sits down with the world's leading experts to explore the most pressing issues in health and health care.
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May 21, 2020 • 38min
The NIH Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Initiative
US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, discusses the agency's new initiative to collaborate with other agencies and industry to accelerate development and testing of COVID-19 treatments and vaccines. Recorded May 19, 2020. Related: Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV): An Unprecedented Partnership for Unprecedented Times
May 13, 2020 • 40min
Immunity Passports in the Time of COVID-19
Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, of the Perelman School of Medicine's Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, discusses the use of immunity licensing (immunity passports) as a means to restore public travel, activity, and the economy following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded May 11, 2020. Related: The Ethics of COVID-19 Immunity-Based Licenses ("Immunity Passports")
May 8, 2020 • 30min
When Should Physicians Act on Non–Statistically Significant Results From Clinical Trials?
Interview with Paul J. Young, PhD, author of When Should Clinicians Act on Non–Statistically Significant Results From Clinical Trials?
May 6, 2020 • 34min
COVID-19 and Health Care's New Normal
Don Berwick, MD, MPP, of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, discusses choices societies and the medical profession can make to improve health care and reduce inequities as we move out of the acute phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Related Article(s): Choices for the "New Normal"
May 5, 2020 • 35min
Coronavirus Q&A: Update From the CDC
Anne Schuchat, MD, Principal Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), discusses evolution of CDC guidance and latest developments in the COVID-19 pandemic. Recorded Friday May 1, 2020.
May 1, 2020 • 23min
Understanding Brain Death
Interview with Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, author of Understanding Brain Death
Apr 29, 2020 • 32min
COVID-19 and US Health Care Spending
The US spends more on health care as a proportion of its GDP than any other nation. Will the COVID-19 pandemic reduce or accelerate that spending? Sherry Glied, PhD, Dean and Professor of Public Service at New York University, explains. Recorded Monday, April 27, 2020. Read the article The Potential Effects of Coronavirus on National Health Expenditures
Apr 28, 2020 • 19min
USPSTF Recommendation: Tobacco Use Prevention and Cessation in Children and Adolescents
Interview with Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH, USPSTF member and coauthor of Primary Care Interventions for Prevention and Cessation of Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
Apr 24, 2020 • 36min
Predicting the COVID-19 Pandemic
Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, an infectious diseases epidemiologist developing biological and modeling approaches to pathogen transmission and outbreaks, discusses evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in summer and fall 2020. Originally recorded April 22, 2020.
Apr 23, 2020 • 19min
Irregularities and Misconduct in Clinical Trials: Increasing Access to FDA Inspection Reports
Interview with Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, author of Increasing Access to FDA Inspection Reports on Irregularities and Misconduct in Clinical Trials
