America Dissected

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zoe
 May 24, 2022
Abdul is really good about bringing on guests who discuss a wide range of topics that affect a lot of groups whose rights and needs are often neglected in mainstream discussions of healthcare. America Dissected is informative without being alarmist, inclusive yet without tokenism, and grounded in the realities of everyday Americans.

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Wellness isn’t just about mindfulness, exercise, or the right skin routine. Science, politics, media, culture, tech — everything around us — interact to shape our health. On America Dissected, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed cuts into what really makes us sick — be it racism, corporate greed, or snake oil influencers — and what it'll take to heal it. From for-profit healthcare to ineffective sunscreens, America Dissected cuts deeper into the state of health in America. New episodes every Tuesday. Want to know where to start? Here are some fan-favorite episodes to search: Cannabis Capitalism with David Jernigan Weight Weight Don’t Tell me with Harriett Brown Black Scientists Matter with Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.

Episode Date
Big Pharma. A miracle HIV prevention drug (and its price-tag). Blue States vs. RFK.
Dec 19, 2024
Health Insurance CEOs. Raw Milk. Our Skincare Routines.
Dec 12, 2024
RFK’s Band of Bros. H5N1 drives Egg Prices. A Big Conversation about Smallpox
Dec 05, 2024
Thanksgiving Greetings and a special announcement!
Nov 28, 2024
RFK to HHS. H5N1 in Canada. And why you should be #Resistance Training
Nov 21, 2024
The Lifeblood of the Navajo Nation, from Reclaimed
Nov 16, 2024
Public Health under RFK Jr. and Trump (and we welcome a new co-host!)
Nov 12, 2024
What Tuesday’s Result Means for Health
Nov 08, 2024
Trouble sleeping? This can help.
Nov 05, 2024
Trauma, Trust, and Why We Still Haven't Processed the Pandemic
Oct 29, 2024
Project 2025 is Bad for Your Health
Oct 22, 2024
An Enlightening Conversation about Breast Density
Oct 15, 2024
A Community Fight in Wisconsin, From To See Each Other
Oct 12, 2024
Pink October
Oct 08, 2024
Will Medical Debt get a Blue Waive
Oct 01, 2024
Factory Farming Fails
Sep 24, 2024
If childbirth isn’t an illness, why does it happen in hospitals?
Sep 17, 2024
Are Annual Pelvic Exams Still Necessary?
Sep 10, 2024
A Family Physician on meeting “fear with feelings”
Sep 03, 2024
What a life-changing cystic fibrosis drug teaches us about translating science into health
Aug 27, 2024
Just Air
Aug 20, 2024
Public Health Across the Divide
Aug 13, 2024
This made-up medical diagnosis has been used to justify police violence for decades
Aug 06, 2024
Fat Joe thinks you should know how much your healthcare costs
Jul 30, 2024
How Big Was the Hammer SCOTUS Just Took to Government as We Know It?
Jul 23, 2024
Scientists Argue that this Genetic Test’s Results are “no better than a coin flip.” The FDA approved it anyway.
Jul 16, 2024
Public health 🤝 Healthcare
Jul 09, 2024
Our Institutions Have Long Covid with David Wallace-Wells
Jul 02, 2024
When Racism goes “Systemic”
Jun 18, 2024
Our Mental Health System is Broken
Jun 11, 2024
Bernie Sanders on a 32-hour workweek, the Long COVID moonshot, and Ozempic
Jun 04, 2024
Trauma can lead to…Growth?
May 28, 2024
America’s NoFundMe Healthcare System
May 21, 2024
A Veterinarian’s Take on Bird Flu in Cows
May 14, 2024
How Big Food Tries to Co-Opt the Anti-Diet Movement
May 07, 2024
The Public (Health) Lives of Pets
Apr 30, 2024
How to build a resilient public health workforce.
Apr 23, 2024
The Other Side of Oppenheimer
Apr 16, 2024
Could Medical Tech be “Coded to Kill”? This Medical School Dean Has Thoughts.
Apr 09, 2024
Getting Practical About Saving Black Moms and Babies
Apr 02, 2024
A Bionic Breast
Mar 26, 2024
Talkin’ Nerdy about Gettin’ Dirty
Mar 19, 2024
Cash as Medicine in Flint, Michigan.
Mar 12, 2024
No, IVF Embryos Aren’t Kids.
Mar 05, 2024
The Invisible Kingdom of Chronic Illness
Feb 27, 2024
Defunding Public Health? One County Tried. It Didn’t Go Well.
Feb 20, 2024
How Cars Got More Deadly
Feb 13, 2024
Sickle Cell and All the Diseases We Choose to Ignore
Feb 06, 2024
A Public Health Catastrophe in Gaza
Jan 30, 2024
Has Public Health Lost Its Way? This Public Health Dean Thinks So.
Jan 23, 2024
America’s Drug Policy Czar Breaks Down the Fentanyl Crisis
Jan 16, 2024
New Year, New You?
Jan 09, 2024
Words Matter. Especially in Public Health.
Dec 19, 2023
Nasal Congestion is More Complicated Than You Think.
Dec 12, 2023
It’s Cold & Flu Season. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.
Dec 05, 2023
Reaching Back into the America Dissected Archive to Remember Ady Barkan
Nov 28, 2023
Food Contamination is On the Rise. Here’s What History Can Teach Us About How to Stop It.
Nov 21, 2023
Public Health vs. The Internet: LIVE from the American Public Health Association Annual Conference in Atlanta
Nov 14, 2023
Mexico Tried to Regulate Tony the Tiger. Here’s what Happened Next.
Nov 07, 2023
Is Ultra-Processed Food…Even Food?
Oct 31, 2023
Some Bad Mother Suckers with Stephanie Nolen
Oct 24, 2023
Rizzing Up Public Health? with Prof. Jerel Ezell
Oct 17, 2023
Activating Public Health with Dr. Shelley Hearne
Oct 10, 2023
Red State Public Health with Drs. Judy Monroe and Lindsay Weaver
Oct 03, 2023
Mailbag!
Sep 26, 2023
YouTuberculosis Advocacy with John Green
Sep 19, 2023
Dialyzing for Dollars with Tom Mueller
Sep 12, 2023
COVID Learning Loss with Prof. Thomas Kane
Sep 05, 2023
Drowning to Swim with Mara Gay
Aug 29, 2023
Humans in Eight Plagues with Prof. Jon Kennedy
Aug 22, 2023
The In-Between with Hadley Vlahos
Aug 15, 2023
The Injustice of Place with Prof. Luke Shaefer
Aug 08, 2023
What the HOKA? with Dr. Jordan Metzl
Aug 01, 2023
Sound Advice with Prof. Erica Walker
Jul 25, 2023
Affirming Care with Dr. Kellan Baker
Jul 18, 2023
The Rise of Doctors Unions with Dr. Lorenzo Gonzalez
Jul 11, 2023
Trooth Decay with Tooka Zokaie
Jun 27, 2023
Pandora’s Gamble with Alison Young
Jun 20, 2023
DrGPT with Dr. Eric Topol
Jun 13, 2023
The Kids Are NOT Alright with Dr. Anthony Iton and Leslie Campos
Jun 06, 2023
MSG for You and Me with Yasmin Tayag
May 30, 2023
Break the Wheel with Attorney General Keith Ellison
May 23, 2023
Mail Order Meds with Chris Hamby
May 16, 2023
Menopaused with Susan Dominus
May 09, 2023
Polling Public Health with Dr. Brian Castrucci
May 02, 2023
We Need More Vaccines, Actually with Martha Rebour
Apr 25, 2023
Miffed about Mifepristone with Dr. Kristyn Brandi
Apr 18, 2023
The $hittiest Episode with Rose George
Apr 11, 2023
The Contagion of Liberty with Prof. Andrew Wehrman
Apr 04, 2023
The Synthetic Biology Future with Michael Specter
Mar 28, 2023
Why Are Girls Hitting Puberty Younger? with Jessica Winter
Mar 21, 2023
The Weight Loss Wizard of Oz(empic) with Dr. Shauna Levy
Mar 14, 2023
Private Equity vs. Public Health with Eileen O’Grady
Mar 07, 2023
Public Health Workers Are NOT Okay with Elizabeth Holzschuh
Feb 28, 2023
Twice as Hard with Jasmine Brown
Feb 21, 2023
Caffeinated with Murray Carpenter
Feb 14, 2023
The Fate of Football (Players) with Garrett Bush
Feb 07, 2023
Cooking with Gas with Rebecca Leber
Jan 31, 2023
Weight, Weight, Don’t Tell Me with Prof. Harriet Brown
Jan 24, 2023
Under the Skin with Linda Villarosa
Jan 17, 2023
Making Your Resolutions Stick with Prof. Katy Milkman
Jan 10, 2023
Holiday Mailbag!
Dec 20, 2022
Ellen Needs Insurance with Ellen Haun
Dec 13, 2022
Do you shower too much? with Dr. James Hamblin
Dec 06, 2022
America’s First Paramedics with Kevin Hazzard
Nov 29, 2022
Public Health on the Ballot with Dr. Brian Castrucci
Nov 22, 2022
A Tripledemic? with Dr. Katelyn Jetelina
Nov 15, 2022
From the Outside In with Jane Coaston
Nov 08, 2022
What the Fact with Dr. Seema Yasmin
Nov 01, 2022
Dissecting Dr. Oz
Oct 25, 2022
Adam Ruins Public Health with Adam Conover
Oct 18, 2022
Racism is a Public Health Issue with Dr. Matías Valenzuela
Oct 11, 2022
Getting Myopic with Sarah Zhang
Oct 04, 2022
The Gospel of Wellness with Rina Raphael
Sep 27, 2022
Malcolm Gladwell on Why What You Don’t See Can Help You
Sep 20, 2022
ORGANized with Greg Segal
Sep 13, 2022
Quack to the Future
Sep 06, 2022
Don’t Pay Attention with Casey Schwartz
Aug 30, 2022
Conceiving the Anti-Abortion Movement with Prof. Karissa Haugeberg
Aug 23, 2022
Negotiating Prescription Drug Prices with Prof. Aaron Kesselheim
Aug 16, 2022
Screening Sunscreen? with Amanda Mull
Aug 09, 2022
50 years after Tuskegee with Prof. Rueben C. Warren
Aug 02, 2022
Presidential COVID with Dr. Megan Ranney
Jul 26, 2022
Big Leaky Tech with The Markup
Jul 19, 2022
What the Discovery of Blood Flow Can Teach Us About Science Itself with Dr. Dhun Sethna
Jul 12, 2022
How AIDS Activists Weaponized Art to Fight a Pandemic with Jack Lowery
Jul 05, 2022
The Fall of Roe. Mailbag & Interview with Attorney General Dana Nessel
Jun 28, 2022
The Kids Are Not Alright with John Woodrow Cox
Jun 21, 2022
Monkeypox! with Prof. Anne Rimoin
Jun 14, 2022
The mental health impact of anti-LGBT policies with Heather Zayde
Jun 07, 2022
How many more kids have to die? with Dr. Joe Sakran
May 31, 2022
The Generational Dread of the Climate Crisis with Varshini Prakash
May 24, 2022
Abortion is Healthcare with Dr. Heather Irobunda
May 17, 2022
Throughline wants you to understand the “Everlasting Problem”
May 10, 2022
Insulinated From the Price of It with T1International
May 03, 2022
Ai-Jen Poo Needs us to Care about Carers
Apr 26, 2022
Pain Points with Dr. Haider Warraich
Apr 19, 2022
The Means of Consumption with Malik Yakini
Apr 12, 2022
Seeking Refuge with David Miliband
Apr 05, 2022
Period Poverty with Lynette Medley
Mar 29, 2022
Bracket Buster with Prof. Tim Fong
Mar 22, 2022
Daylight Shavings Time with Dr. Muhammad Adeel Rishi
Mar 15, 2022
State of the Pandemic with Dr. Don Burke
Mar 08, 2022
On the Beaten Path with Dr. Shane O’Mara
Mar 01, 2022
People > Pathology with Prof. Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Feb 22, 2022
The Sum of Us are Sick with Heather McGhee
Feb 15, 2022
The Black Maternal Health Caucus with Rep. Lauren Underwood
Feb 08, 2022
The Court of Public Vaccination w/ Prof. Melissa Murray
Feb 01, 2022
A different kind of public option?
Jan 25, 2022
CDC something wrong here?
Jan 18, 2022
The Innovation Gap with Prof. Shobita Parthasarathy
Jan 11, 2022
You’ve Got Mail with Guest Host Tre’vell Anderson
Jan 04, 2022
Healing Back...maybe? with Jonathan Cohn
Dec 21, 2021
Patent Pending with Prof. Jorge Contreras
Dec 14, 2021
Uh-Omicron
Dec 07, 2021
Teeth with Mary Otto
Nov 30, 2021
Cannabis Capitalism with Prof. David Jernigan
Nov 23, 2021
The Last Best Chance with Prof Jisung Park
Nov 16, 2021
The Contagion Next Time with Prof Sandro Galea
Nov 09, 2021
Be-JUULed with Lauren Etter
Nov 02, 2021
Talking Public Health LIVE from Denver with Dr. John Douglas and Anat Shenker-Osorio
Oct 26, 2021
Is life about to get CRISPR? with Carl Zimmer
Oct 19, 2021
Health in Concrete with Katrina Forrest & Chrissie Juliano
Oct 12, 2021
Getting PrEP’d with James Krellenstein
Oct 05, 2021
Texas v. Roe with Alexis McGill Johnson
Sep 28, 2021
Food, Drugs, and Rock & Roll
Sep 21, 2021
Rights & Responsibilities on the Res with Rebecca Nagle
Sep 14, 2021
The 20 Year War with Zarlasht Halaimzai
Sep 07, 2021
A Labor of Love with Randi Weingarten
Aug 31, 2021
Football on the Brain with Dr. Kathleen Bachynski
Aug 24, 2021
A Second Opinion with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Aug 17, 2021
Delta, Delta, Delta with Dr. Angie Rasmussen
Aug 10, 2021
The Green New Heal with Rhiana Gunn-Wright
Aug 03, 2021
Big Pharma’s big fraud with Dr. Aaron Kesselheim
Jul 27, 2021
Pandemic Olympics with Peter Vanderkaay
Jul 20, 2021
Whose problem is it anyway? with Wayne Brady
Jul 13, 2021
Mental health is a social justice issue with Dr. Ashwin Vasan
Jul 06, 2021
A Tale of Two Crises: Opiates vs. Crack (from Season 1)
Jun 22, 2021
Preventable with Andy Slavitt
Jun 15, 2021
A Global Vaccine for a Global Pandemic?
Jun 08, 2021
Pro-politics but anti-life in Texas with Nancy Northup
Jun 01, 2021
Antiracist healthcare? with Prof Ibram X. Kendi
May 25, 2021
Talking Science with Dr. Sanjay Gupta
May 18, 2021
From the bedside to the bullhorn for Black Lives with Rep. Cori Bush
May 11, 2021
The next one.
May 04, 2021
America Dissected: Season 3 - Coming May 4th
Apr 30, 2021
Season Finale: The beginning of the end
Apr 27, 2021
Frontline fatigue with Jenny Gold & Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez
Apr 20, 2021
Dining in...a pandemic with Corby Kummer and Chef Amanda Cohen
Apr 13, 2021
Ready or Not with John Auerbach
Apr 06, 2021
Forward to normal with Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Mar 30, 2021
The lessons we (haven’t yet) learned with Dr. Julie Morita
Mar 23, 2021
A ray of hope in a year of misery with Dr. Joia Mukherjee
Mar 16, 2021
Polling the Pandemic with Chris Jackson
Mar 09, 2021
Women out of the Workplace with Jane Oates
Mar 02, 2021
So, How Does This End? with John Barry
Feb 23, 2021
The Variants Episode with Dr. Angela Rasmussen
Feb 16, 2021
The First 100 with Brian Beutler
Feb 09, 2021
Racism is a Public Health Issue with Dr. Mary Bassett
Feb 02, 2021
We Need to Talk about Medicare for All with Dr. Micah Johnson
Jan 26, 2021
Fevers & Feuds with Dr. Paul Farmer
Jan 19, 2021
The Infodemic with Dr. Seema Yasmin
Jan 12, 2021
Black Scientists Matter with Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett
Jan 05, 2021
Mental health mailbag w/ Dr. Sarah Jukaku
Dec 29, 2020
The transition
Dec 22, 2020
The vaccine episode
Dec 15, 2020
The State of the States
Dec 08, 2020
Post-Thanksgiving mailbag with Dr. Syra Madad
Dec 01, 2020
The long haul
Nov 24, 2020
Dying in a pandemic
Nov 17, 2020
Now for the work
Nov 10, 2020
#46, insha’Allah
Nov 03, 2020
The pandemic vote
Oct 27, 2020
Organizing against pandemic fatigue
Oct 20, 2020
The Stakes in November
Oct 13, 2020
Science always wins with Bill Nye (the Science Guy!)
Oct 06, 2020
Hungry in a Pandemic
Sep 29, 2020
200,000 and counting
Sep 22, 2020
The Sound of COVID-19
Sep 15, 2020
If we had a competent administration
Sep 08, 2020
We’re number 31!
Sep 01, 2020
Going home to school?
Aug 25, 2020
Epidemiology is hard to do
Aug 18, 2020
A shot in the arm?
Aug 11, 2020
Environmental Justice & COVID19
Aug 04, 2020
The COVID Crystal Ball
Jul 28, 2020
Playing through a pandemic
Jul 21, 2020
Dr. Fauci
Jul 14, 2020
Coronavirus Containment Corps
Jul 07, 2020
WHO’s pandemic is it, anyway?
Jun 30, 2020
The Virus in the Coronavirus
Jun 23, 2020
The Covid Recession
Jun 16, 2020
Protesting in a pandemic.
Jun 09, 2020
Going Viral in a Pandemic
Jun 02, 2020
The meaning of 100,000
May 29, 2020
Is It Safe To Come Out?
May 26, 2020
COVID in Indian Country
May 22, 2020
Ebola should have prepared us
May 19, 2020
COVID and the classroom
May 15, 2020
COVID without papers
May 12, 2020
COVID without Borders
May 08, 2020
Don’t declare victory just yet
May 05, 2020
Andrew Yang and the COVID Basic Income
May 01, 2020
Homelessness, Incarceration, and COVID19
Apr 28, 2020
Medicare-for-COVID with Senator Bernie Sanders
Apr 24, 2020
Viruses don’t discriminate ... people do.
Apr 21, 2020
Testing 1, 2, 3! Why we STILL need testing
Apr 17, 2020
COVID and Big Pharma
Apr 14, 2020
Going the Distance: COVID-19 and Mental Health
Apr 10, 2020
The economy after COVID-19
Apr 07, 2020
Open for Business: Toilet Paper and Disaster Capitalism
Apr 03, 2020
Emergency Room: A dispatch from the Front Lines
Mar 31, 2020
Life Support: Congress and COVID (with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal)
Mar 27, 2020
The Tweetment: Why Science Matters Now
Mar 24, 2020
Plandemic: How the World is Treating Coronavirus
Mar 20, 2020
A Public/Private Health Emergency
Mar 17, 2020
It's a Pandemic, Now What?
Mar 13, 2020
Healthcare Dissected pt 2: Medicare-for-who?
Nov 18, 2019
Healthcare Dissected pt 1: "Nobody Knew Healthcare Could Be So Complicated"
Nov 18, 2019
Cradle And All
Nov 11, 2019
Unleaded
Nov 04, 2019
All the Lonely People, Where Do They All Belong?
Oct 28, 2019
A Tale of Two Crises: Opiates vs. Crack
Oct 21, 2019
Superbugging Out
Oct 14, 2019
Pharmageddon
Oct 07, 2019
Quack To The Future
Sep 30, 2019
The Anti-anti-vax-vaccine
Sep 30, 2019
America Dissected with Abdul El-Sayed (coming September 30th)
Sep 20, 2019