The State of Health with Gunnar Esiason

Lindsey Leininger, the nerdy-Girl-in-Chief, at Dear Pandemic, a website where bona fide nerdy girls post real info on COVID-19, joins the show to talk about the state of the pandemic, lessons learned, how data should be used to inform public policy and how she fights back against misinformation. She is a public health scientist who teaches and writes about data-driven health policy. Her greatest professional passion is helping health care decision-makers make sense of medical data. Over her career she has taught and trained policymakers, physicians, patient advocates, and executives about the intelligent use of public health and medical evidence. She is on faculty at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College where she teaches courses at the intersection of health analytics, public health, and the health care industry.

Lindsey talks to Gunnar about bridging the political divide when communicating about public health measures, how people should interpret the data they see on TV and how the pandemic ends.

Gunnar and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy do a three questions style interview where the role of the interviewer flips halfway through the show. Governor Murphy talks about the state of the healthcare industry in New Jersey, how the COVID-19 pandemic will reshape health policy choices in the state, and why the pandemic's shift to remote work could provide opportunities for those who need it most. Gunnar talks about one of his first jobs in the healthcare industry and his hope for career patients to have more than just a stakeholder role in government and the health industry. Finally the conversation moves to the State's role in healthcare affordability.

Welcome to the State of Health, patients put healthcare decision makers and thought leaders in the hot seat.

Join Gunnar Esiason, a cystic fibrosis patient advocate and rare disease patient leader, as he rolls back the curtain on the healthcare system through conversations with political leaders, industry decision makers, thought leaders and, of course, patients.

Let's talk about the State of Health.