The Health Disparities Podcast

By Movement is Life, Inc

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The Health Disparities Podcast is the world’s leading health equity discussion forum and is a program of Movement is Life. This podcast features thought leaders in the world of equitable health, and highlights health disparities, social determinants of health and community-led solutions.

Episode Date
Rural health challenges and opportunities, Part 3: The clinicians’ perspective
Nov 20, 2024
Rural health challenges and opportunities, Part 2: The hospital administrators’ perspective
Nov 06, 2024
Rural health challenges and opportunities, Part 1: A conversation with the CDC and HHS
Oct 23, 2024
Federal policies, health equity, and the legacy of John Lewis: an interview with Congresswoman Terri Sewell
Oct 09, 2024
Operation Change: Breaking the cycle of pain, immobility and chronic illness, one woman at a time
Sep 25, 2024
The Medical Mythbuster explains why you should attend Movement Is Life’s Annual Summit
Sep 11, 2024
Hospitals & Health Equity: What it takes to bring about real change in healthcare systems
Aug 28, 2024
Hospitals & Health Equity: A first-of-its-kind statewide initiative aims to center equity in health care operations
Aug 14, 2024
Hospitals & Health Equity: Addressing health disparities is both a moral imperative – and a patient safety and quality issue
Jul 31, 2024
Hospitals & Health Equity: What role can hospital rankings play in promoting health equity?
Jul 17, 2024
Hospitals & Health Equity: The importance of understanding patients' cultural backgrounds in healthcare
Jul 03, 2024
Can predictive AI reduce health disparities in orthopedic surgery? This UK researcher aims to find out
Jun 19, 2024
Healthcare hurdles: Exploring disparities and solutions for underserved communities
Jun 03, 2024
From Crisis to Care: How Boston's BEST Program is Redefining Mental Health Support
May 22, 2024
Dr. Jerome Adams on why the words we use matter in efforts to promote health equity
May 08, 2024
Addressing the legacy of racism in education and health care
Apr 24, 2024
Artificial Intelligence and Health Equity: A Cautionary Tale
Apr 10, 2024
How cross-collaborative partnerships can improve lifelong health trajectories
Mar 27, 2024
How to be a health equity influencer
Mar 13, 2024
‘Without money, there’s no mission’: Fundraising advice for nonprofits
Feb 28, 2024
Food is Medicine: How Kroger Health uses technology to promote health equity
Feb 14, 2024
Debunking self-care myths with Ariel Belgrave, founder of Gym Hooky
Jan 31, 2024
How med schools can equip doctors to help eliminate health disparities
Jan 17, 2024
Building community through movement: A conversation with the founders of Walk with a Doc and Semilla Cultural
Jan 03, 2024
”The Death Gap” author Dr. David Ansell discusses social and structural vectors for disease that were not taught at his medical school. With Dr. Carla Harwell.
Dec 19, 2023
Building Black wealth and addressing social determinants of health in Baltimore - the Parity story with Bree Jones
Dec 06, 2023
Solutions, success factors, & common mistakes. Round table. (Systemic Bias & Systemic Racism in Healthcare 4/4)
Nov 16, 2023
Examples of Systemic Racism in Healthcare. Round Table. (Systemic Bias & Systemic Racism in Healthcare 3/4)
Nov 03, 2023
Definitions of systemic & structural racism in healthcare. Round Table. (Systemic Bias & Systemic Racism in Healthcare 2/4)
Oct 19, 2023
Unconscious Bias: Yes, it is Real. Audio Booklet. (Systemic Bias & Systemic Racism in Healthcare 1/4)
Oct 07, 2023
Preview: Health Equity Summit Nov 30 - Dec 01, 2023 ”Bridging the Health Equity Gap in Vulnerable Communities” in Washington, DC
Sep 20, 2023
Mentoring healthcare leaders: Howard University President Dr. Wayne Frederick moved to DC at 16, mentorship has provided both professional & spiritual guidance. With fellow alum, Dr. Randall Morgan.
Sep 05, 2023
Affirmative Reaction: Mission-centered advancement is now central to education & workforce diversity as ruling reshapes DEI. With Michaele Turnage Young, Senior Counsel, LDF, & Dr. Tamara Huff. E148
Aug 15, 2023
Framing a new post-affirmative action world. Insights from Dr. Ruth Simmons, Harvard University & Rice University, and Dr. Tamara Huff, orthopedic surgeon. E147
Aug 02, 2023
Healthcare Ready is a disaster preparedness organization working to make communities more resilient to emergency situations, with a health equity focus. With Executive Director Tom Cotter, MPH. E146
Jul 18, 2023
Why do religious people achieve better nutrition & physical activity goals, & have better cardiovascular outcomes? Clarence Jones, Dr. LaPrincess Brewer & Dr. Mary O’Connor unravel a new study. E145
Jul 03, 2023
Five barriers & pathways to DEI, discussed in the context of healthcare delivery. With Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, Dr. Randall Morgan & Dr. Mary O’Connor. Episode 144.
Jun 19, 2023
As the number of patients getting value-based healthcare doubles, many more high-risk patients are excluded. EMMT is a potential bipartisan solution. Episode 143.
Jun 06, 2023
When a hospital becomes the patient: The challenge of receiving an “F” Grade during the pandemic, and the pathway to recovery involving Just Culture. Episode 142.
May 23, 2023
Nurse Practitioners with full practice authority can reduce disparities in access to care. With AANP President, Dr. April Kapu.
May 10, 2023
The importance of place. How a non-profit called Purpose Built Communities helps community leaders create healthy “cradle to college pipelines” in neighborhoods. With Carol Naughton & Dr. Tamara Huff.
Apr 24, 2023
Building healthy communities against a backdrop of declining healthcare infrastructure. With Dr. Alisahah Jackson & Dr. Tamara Huff. Episode 139
Apr 11, 2023
Diversity is where it starts, belonging completes the cycle. How inclusion when setting the agenda combines with diverse voices at the decision-making table to advance health equity.
Mar 23, 2023
From Anti-racism to Z-codes, following the JEDI path to health equity. Episode 137.
Mar 08, 2023
Hispanic panel: The social influences of health, translating “medicalish,” and understanding intersectionality.
Feb 23, 2023
Integrating clinical excellence with health equity at Walgreens & driving urban innovation at the Lindy Institute. Featuring Dr. Priya Mammen, MD, MPH
Feb 15, 2023
Playing “The Race Cards” from 904WARD can create safe spaces for building understanding and advancing equity. Featuring Dr. Kimberly Allen.
Jan 26, 2023
COVID connections: How resiliency training and social contact in the era of COVID-19 support mental health, behavioral change and addiction recovery.
Jan 16, 2023
Round Table: Personal experiences of how affirmative action has increased Hispanic & African American healthcare workforce diversity.
Dec 28, 2022
Affirmative Action: As severe under-representation of minorities in the healthcare workforce persists, affirmative action now faces a legal challenge in the Supreme Court.
Dec 15, 2022
Health Zones & Healthy 2030 Goals: CVS & Aetna commitment to community health equity with Jennifer Truscott
Nov 30, 2022
Town Hall Meeting 2: Operation Change has a Ripple Effect in San Diego
Oct 26, 2022
Movement is Life Caucus November 2022 Preview 3: “Movement” Workshops
Oct 12, 2022
Movement is Life Caucus November 2022 Preview 2: “Activism” Workshops
Oct 12, 2022
Town Hall Meeting 1: Operation Change celebrates resiliency in Chicago
Sep 28, 2022
Movement is Life Caucus November 2022 Preview 1: Plenary sessions
Sep 15, 2022
Can telemedicine reduce rural and other health disparities? Featuring Neal Neuberger.
Jul 07, 2022
The power of our voices: Thinking about the language we use in medicine, and the positive consequences of open notes. With Dr. Leonor Fernández.
Jun 15, 2022
From surviving to thriving: Building personal resilience in the era of micro, macro, and “atomic” aggressions.
Jun 02, 2022
Featuring Dr. Elvis Francois. Behind the Masked Singer, a lifelong passion for music as medicine.
May 18, 2022
Healthy “coopetition” in action. With Baton Rouge Mayor Sharon Weston Broome, Coletta Barrett and Dr. Charla Johnson.
Apr 27, 2022
Dr. Millicent Gorham in discussion with Google/YouTube’s Director and Global Head of Healthcare and Public Health, Dr. Garth Graham.
Apr 07, 2022
How can community programs such as Operation Change adapt during a pandemic?
Mar 18, 2022
A LaSure Family Tradition: Service to Nation & Equity
Mar 04, 2022
Healthcare disparities in paradise? Hawaii Lt. Gov. Josh Green, MD, discusses health equity leadership and Hawaii’s COVID response with Bill Finerfroc...
Feb 16, 2022
At the epicenter of the COVID first wave, safety-net hospitals were vital community assets. featuring Dr. Wayne Riley.
Feb 02, 2022
Health Law & Policy Roundtable: Health Equity Priorities in 2022
Jan 19, 2022
Profiles in Health Equity: Calvin Johnson, MD, MPH.
Dec 29, 2021
Healthcare for the homeless, featuring Kelly Bruno, CEO National Health Foundation.
Dec 14, 2021
Physical therapy: uniquely positioned to help address chronic conditions and health disparities.
Oct 22, 2021
Meeting our neighbors at the intersection of environmental justice and health equity.
Sep 15, 2021
Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and the benefits of workforce inclusion and diversity.
Sep 02, 2021
Flatlining revisited: The extra burden of equity work in the intra-COVID era.
Aug 12, 2021
Innovation as a solution to health inequities. Featuring K’ept Health CEO Sheena Franklin.
Jul 28, 2021
The components of resilience needed to achieve life goals and a joyful career. Panel discussion.
Jul 14, 2021
A coordinated and collaborative approach to Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Part 2/2: COVID-19 Pandemic.
Jun 30, 2021
A coordinated and collaborative approach to Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Part 1/2
Jun 16, 2021
Profiles in Health Equity: Duane Reynolds, Founder & CEO, Just Health Collective
Jun 09, 2021
World Environment Day: How pollution and climate change impact health disparities.
Jun 02, 2021
One hundred episodes of health equity: We are just getting started.
May 26, 2021
Harvard Professor Augustus White III: Surgeon, Author & Health Equity Pioneer.
May 19, 2021
Bailouts and safety-net hospitals: A pandemic upside for well-financed institutions when others are sidelined?
May 12, 2021
Meeting people where they are has been key to equitable COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
May 05, 2021
Community Interventions: The Ward Infinity Initiative in SE DC, & Operation Change in five other cities.
Apr 28, 2021
Bruce Johnson: Author, health advocate & much-loved CBS reporter discusses health inequities.
Apr 21, 2021
Human Resources: Employers play an important role in promoting health equity.
Apr 14, 2021
Fund Black Scientists: How inequitable NIH funding perpetuates the disparities divide.
Apr 07, 2021
Podcast to Podcast: Dr. Mary O’Connor meets “Flip the Script” podcast host and health equity advocate Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako.
Mar 31, 2021
Bronx and Brooklyn healthcare provider Dr. Nereida Correa discusses how the complexities of payment systems impacts her patients.
Mar 24, 2021
Community Health Workers get an up-close view of the ways that patients experience healthcare. Insights from a patient-centered vantage point.
Mar 17, 2021
Nurse Practitioners in West Virginia and Wyoming discuss ways that value-based models of care impact vulnerable populations.
Mar 10, 2021
Specialty care in small-town America: health disparities, the impact of COVID-19, and some upsides of rural life for physicians.
Mar 03, 2021
Black Physician Assistants Matter: A “JEDI” discussion.
Feb 24, 2021
Unique payer-provider structure, new models of patient-centered care.
Feb 17, 2021
Mitigating the unintended consequences of health policy.
Feb 10, 2021
Value-based payments: a health economics perspective.
Feb 03, 2021
Dr. O’Connor hosts panel discussing how the perception of risk in surgery can widen health disparities.
Jan 27, 2021
Educators discuss why more Hispanics should enter the healthcare workforce. Part 2, featuring Dr. Sherry Segura.
Jan 20, 2021
Educators discuss how more Hispanics can enter the healthcare workforce. Part 1, featuring Ed Alvarez.
Jan 13, 2021
Perspectives on health disparities through an epidemiology lens. Featuring Dr. Leigh Callahan.
Jan 06, 2021
Are rural health disparities being widened by bundled payments? Featuring Donna Kurek.
Dec 30, 2020
Physician Assistants have an increasingly important role in healthcare. Featuring Klarisse Mathis.
Dec 23, 2020
Safety net hospitals are crucial, but closures are making healthcare less universal. Featuring Dr. Eric Santos.
Dec 16, 2020
How Nurse Practitioners drive health equity through vital rural and frontier healthcare. With Wesley Davis and Cristina Gonzalez.
Dec 09, 2020
Peggy’s Story: Operation Change, South Side, Chicago.
Dec 02, 2020
Lynn’s story: a new outlook on life from new knowledge gained – and her fitness tracker.
Nov 25, 2020
Ovidia’s story: Learning about health disparities motivated her to make changes.
Nov 18, 2020
Latinx clinical research inclusion: how Dr Fabian Sandoval and Dr Gustavo Corrales teamed up to move the needle.
Nov 11, 2020
Understanding mistrust of flu and COVID-19 vaccines, featuring Dr. Sandra Crouse Quinn.
Nov 04, 2020
Freda’s Story: Freda needed accountability to help decrease her pain and reduce her A1C. Being part of a team was the key.
Oct 28, 2020
Sonja’s Story: When you have a Y membership but don’t go, what might be missing?
Oct 21, 2020
Laura’s Story: How emotional connection in a safe space helped address her depression.
Oct 14, 2020
Delivering Trusted & Patient-Centered Public Health Information is Essential to the Promotion of Wellness in Latinx Communities. Featuring Dr. Elena R...
Oct 07, 2020
Maryland’s successful Health Enterprise Zones previously led by Congressman Brown considered for national adoption.
Sep 30, 2020
Deanna’s Story: “It Changed my Whole Way of Thinking.” How Operation Change helped Deanna Find Pride and Purpose.
Sep 23, 2020
Wanda’s Story: “It’s a Game Changer.” After Thinking it’s Too Late to Change, a Program Made Wanda Stop, Think & Reset.
Sep 16, 2020
Uncomfortable Truths, Inspiring Perspectives: A Round Table Discussion on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion with Young Health Professionals.
Sep 09, 2020
The Heart of Diversity & Inclusion: A Cardiologists’ Perspective. Featuring Dr. Sharonne Hayes.
Sep 02, 2020
America Needs More Minority Doctors & Nurses: Why & How. Featuring Dr. Melvyn Harrington.
Aug 26, 2020
Eliminating Bias as Part of Professionalism. Featuring Dr. Augustus White III.
Aug 19, 2020
COVID-19 is Particularly Tough on Native Americans. Here’s Why We Should All Care About That. Featuring Dr. Holly Pilson, Lumbee Tribe of North Caroli...
Aug 12, 2020
Taking COVID-19 Testing to the People in Jacksonville, Florida. Featuring Ann-Marie Knight, MHA, FACHE.
Aug 05, 2020
Operation Change Community Report: Chicago with Christin Zollicoffer
Jul 29, 2020
Operation Change Community Report: Hazard, Kentucky, with Keisha Hudson
Jul 22, 2020
Operation Change Community Report: St. Louis, Missouri, with Darlene Donegan.
Jul 22, 2020
Operation Change Community Report: Salvation Army Kroc Center, San Diego, with Miriam Rodriguez
Jul 15, 2020
Operation Change Community Report: Grace Baptist Church, Mount Vernon, New York, with Hazella Rollins LaVar
Jul 15, 2020
The Operation Change Program Overview Part 2, with Christin Zollicoffer
Jul 08, 2020
Operation Change Program Overview Part 1, with Dr. Yashika Watkins
Jul 01, 2020
OrthoInfo: An orthopedics website made for patients is also helpful to physicians. Featuring Dr. Stuart Fischer
Jun 24, 2020
Meeting Report: The UVA Healing Hate Conference examined new collaborations and socio-legal frameworks to tackle the injustices of health disparities....
Jun 17, 2020
Words not weapons: A psychiatry expert discusses the impact of gun violence on community mental health, and how prior history of violence, victims of ...
Jun 10, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic 9: Focus on the Southern States with The Balm in Gilead founder and CEO Dr. Pernessa Seele
Jun 08, 2020
Collaboration is the cure: Dr Vivian Pinn calls for renewed efforts to bring about health equity through interdisciplinary collaboration and socio-pol...
Jun 03, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic 8: Rural Health Disparities & COVID-19 Panel.
May 29, 2020
Exploring the “invisible knapsack” concept developed by Peggy McIntosh to understand privilege and power in the context of health and diversity. Featu...
May 27, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic 7: Both pandemic and syndemic – how clusters of preexisting comorbid conditions have driven up fatalities. Featuring Dr. Emily Mende...
May 22, 2020
Advancing health justice: UVA Law Professor Dayna Bowen Matthew offers a powerful and passionate discourse on discriminatory healthcare as health disp...
May 20, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic 6: Let’s talk about Privilege. Dr. Eddie Moore & Dr. Christina Jimenez.
May 15, 2020
Celebrating National Nurses Week 2020 – Special Round Table Episode
May 10, 2020
Safety-net hospital group CEO Delvecchio Finley describes the challenges of COVID-19 for safety-net hospitals.
May 01, 2020
The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans, featuring Rev. Dr. W Franklyn Richardson.
May 01, 2020
Leading health policy towards equity, peer mentorship, and taking advantage of a crack in the door. Featuring MaCalus Hogan, MD.
Apr 29, 2020
Tackling disparities from kindergarten up: a Mississippi Governors’ tale. Featuring Ronnie Musgrove.
Apr 22, 2020
How payment systems can be reformed to improve quality, reduce disparities, and stop rural hospitals closing. Featuring Harold Miller.
Apr 15, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic 3: What if You Break a Bone, or Your Orthopedic Surgery is Delayed?
Apr 09, 2020
Rural health disparities, and a checklist of solutions for addressing social determinants of health. Featuring Dr. Claire Pomeroy.
Apr 08, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic: What we can do to stay healthy, safe and strong.
Apr 03, 2020
How the Lasker Foundation champions the importance of social determinants to all aspects of research and to shifting focus upstream. Featuring Dr. Cla...
Apr 01, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic: Are Disadvantaged Communities at Higher Risk?
Mar 26, 2020
Weight bias. Obesity specialist Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, discusses what’s behind the most common form of bias in the US, how that bias causes stress,...
Mar 25, 2020
To avoid racial bias, technology-based solutions need diverse voices at each stage of development. Featuring Adrienne White-Faines.
Mar 11, 2020
Addressing gang violence can teach us much about public health and inclusiveness. Featuring Father Gregory Boyle.
Feb 21, 2020
Vanguard Award winner describes her work to address racial health disparities in Wisconsin. Featuring Dr. Patricia McManus
Feb 07, 2020
How surgeons can improve success rates and reduce disparities by incorporating broader education. Featuring Tamara Huff, MD.
Jan 24, 2020
Bundled payments and the marginalization of complex patients. Featuring Charles. L. Nelson, MD.
Jan 10, 2020
Good health is salvation here and now. Featuring Rev. Willis Steele, MDiv.
Dec 27, 2019
Do providers give preference to more profitable patients? Featuring Daniel Wiznia, MD.
Dec 13, 2019
The increasing role of nurse practitioners in reducing health disparities. Featuring Mary Behrens.
Nov 29, 2019
Advocating for physical activity at the National Association of Orthopedic Nurses. Featuring Doreen Johnson.
Nov 15, 2019
Health policy at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. Featuring Shreyasi Deb.
Nov 01, 2019
What if your father struggles with arthritis - and you are a physician? Featuring Michael Parks.
Oct 18, 2019
How risk adjustment payments could help complex conditions in rural areas. Featuring Tammy Huff.
Oct 04, 2019
Nurses have always understood the social determinants of health. Now the world is catching up. Featuring Deborah Coplin-Hall.
Sep 27, 2019
Access deserts, Magnet designation, and comorbidity management centers in Boston. Featuring Sasha Dubois.
Sep 27, 2019
Collaborative approaches and hospice care in the Sunshine State. Featuring Lyn Peugeot.
Sep 27, 2019
Making sure healthcare isn’t a lottery in rural Nevada. Featuring Debra Toney.
Sep 27, 2019
Carter Todd: Nursing inspirations and aspirations in Sacramento, California
Sep 20, 2019
NBNA’s 50th Anniversary vision: Getting patients engaged in their own health by moving away from the illness model.
Sep 06, 2019
Going beyond disparities and competency: why we need to focus on achieving health equity and cultural proficiency.
Aug 23, 2019
Primary care, private practice: A dedicated physician tackles zip code related health disparities.
Aug 09, 2019
Left bank, right bank. Mississippi River Delta health disparity problems and solutions.
Jul 26, 2019
The National Black Nurses Association (NBNA): Professional development leadership and supporting minority inclusion in health research.
Jul 12, 2019
Can “trauma informed care” help eliminate disparities?
Jun 28, 2019
A church with health at its heart.
Jun 14, 2019
Fellow humans, meet Professor Augustus White III, MD.
May 31, 2019
Is unconscious bias Healthcare’s ”dirty little secret”?
May 17, 2019
Can the ”Equality in Medicare and Medicaid Treatment Act” protect human dignity?
May 01, 2019
The Unintended Effects of Bundled Payments on Health Disparities
Apr 15, 2019