Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for this new nationwide hotline to meet the needs of millions of people struggling with suicide, addiction and mental illness.

Guests:

Andrea Harrison, Helpline Specialist, First Choice Services

Madhuri Jha, LCSW, MPH, Director, Kennedy-Satcher Center for Mental Health Equity, Morehouse School of Medicine

Ben Miller, PsyD, President, Well Being Trust

Hannah Wesolowski, MPA, Chief Advocacy Officer, National Alliance on Mental Illness

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Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health policies in the country?

Guests: 

Sayeh Nikpay, PhD, Tradeoffs Contributing Research Editor; Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota

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The leader of a landmark abortion study shares what research and her own family experience suggest will happen to people who are denied abortions in a post-Roe world.

Guests: 

Diana Foster Green, director of research at Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health

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A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing. Michigan is one of more than 20 states poised to ban abortion if Roe v. Wade falls. Politico’s Alice Miranda Ollstein speaks with one woman who got an illegal abortion in Michigan and outlines the political levers state leaders have to to preserve abortion rights.

Guests: 

Alice Miranda Ollstein, health care reporter, POLITICO

Renee Chelian, Executive Director, Northland Family Planning Centers

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How one hospital is scrambling to deal with a shortage of a critical drug, and what changes are needed to fix chronic problems with the U.S. medical supply chain.

Guests:

Kierstin Kennedy, Chief Medical Officer, University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital

Erin Fox, Senior Pharmacy Director, University of Utah Health

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We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician's desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Guests:

Meredith Niess, MD, MPH, Clinical Academic Resource Director, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Novant Health

Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Cheryl Damberg, PhD, MPH, Principal Senior Economist and Director, RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance

Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Chief Innovation Officer, SCAN Health Plan

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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 can learn from 911.

Learn more about how 988 came to be, what’s at stake and what it will take to succeed in the first episode in our series.

Guests: 

Rebecca Neusteter, PhD, Executive Director, Health Lab, University of Chicago

Rita Salazar, 911 call-taker, Valley Communications Center

Michelle Lilly, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Northern Illinois University

Jennifer Battle, MSW, Director of Access, Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD Services

Lata Menon, MSW, CEO, First Choice Services

Courtney Colwell, 988 Program Manager, Volunteers of America Western Washington

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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregnant people may have.

Guests:

Stacey Roussel, Deputy Director, Louisiana Budget Project

Frankie Robertson, Founder & President, The Amandla Group

Usha Ranji, Associate Director for Women’s Health Policy at Kaiser Family Foundation

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The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.

Guests: 

Liana Wolk, teacher

Owen Marshall, musician

Katie Keith, JD, MPH; Director, Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O’Neill Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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Medical education is in the midst of a revolution. Students and educators want their education ingrained in antiracism and hope that by acknowledging and teaching about bias and systemic discrimination in the medical field, the next generation of doctors will be better equipped to dismantle racism within health care. STAT's “Color Code” takes a look at the groundswell of antiracism work in medicine and medical education, and explores the backlash these endeavors have received, which span from institutional repercussions to protests from hate groups

Guests:

Jerrel Catlett: An MD/PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 

Rebecca Zhou: A peer in medical school at Mt. Sinai.

Jennifer Dias: An MD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Michelle Morse: Chief Medical Officer of the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Aysha Khoury: Assistant Professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine.

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