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This collection of stories will allow you to grasp uneasy topics related to common social determinants of health. These health-related fictional stories cover the impact of social standards such as war, displacement, poverty, isolation, discrimination, and many other forces that adversely affect health outcomes.

We hope these stories will allow our listeners to identify the most longstanding public health problems and encourage others to advance public health worldwide.

Visit http://www.rwjf.org/fiction to learn about the stories, authors, and ideas presented in Take Us To A Better Place.

Foreword by Roxane Gay - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

Opening - Take Us To A Better Place by RWJF

Psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel answers our question “what advice did you give your own children about developing healthy relationships?”

Enjoy this unedited conversation with psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author Esther Perel, who is recognized as one of today's most insightful and original voices on modern relationships. In the clip, RWJF’s Lori Melichar talks with Esther about how our relationships affect our health and how that has evolved over the course of time.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode RWJF senior program officer Paul Tarini connects with grantee Ted Smith, PhD, Chief of Civic Innovation in Louisville, Kentucky, to explore his work with Air Louisville. This program is using city-wide collaboration to gather real-time data as part of their mission to understand what contributes to health inequities in the city and how the data can be used to create policies and partnerships that will make the city of Louisville—and all cities—a healthier place to live.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore the cognitive power of the brain through the lens of video games with Adam Gazzaley, professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry and director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at UC-San Francisco, and Jane Lowe, RWJF senior advisor for program development. Listen in as they discuss Gazzaley’s work and what happens when you use neuroscience to develop healthy video games.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore resilience and using mindfulness to manage stress with Amit Sood, MD, MSc, FACP, professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College and chair of Mayo Mind Body Initiative, and Mike Painter, RWJF senior program officer. Together they discuss what Sood and his team are doing to improve health outcomes and quality of care through teaching compassion and utilizing the strengths of the brain.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore a new cutting-edge idea with the potential to build a Culture of Health. Join us as we explore how virtual reality technology can be used to help build social good with Founding Director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, grantee Jeremy Bailenson and RWJF Senior Program Officer Tracy Costigan, and discuss Jeremy’s explorations in using virtual reality to build empathy and more.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Pioneering Ideas Podcast explores cutting edge ideas and emerging trends with the potential to improve health and health care for all Americans. In this episode we explore a new batch of cutting-edge ideas with the potential to build a Culture of Health. We explore the potential for the collaborative economy (aka “the sharing economy”) to change how we engage with and experience health and health care. Next we reimagine medical education, where new online models are powering collaboration within and between medical schools, and we learn how “agile science” seeks to use research to spur discovery and adoption of healthy behavior change. Finally, we’ll hear one grantee’s personal vision of a Culture of Health where everyone has access to their personal health data.