Turn on the Lights Podcast

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Description

Hosted by Don Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, and Kedar Mate, MD, Founder and CMO of Qualified Health, and Former President and CEO of Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), Turn on the Lights is a podcast that aims to improve health care worldwide by shedding light on health care issues through thought-provoking conversations. By demystifying health care problems, we hope to activate both the public and health care professionals to help us accelerate changes leading to health and health care improvements worldwide. Our discussions cover various topics such as health care delivery, health equity, quality, and social justice. The podcast features solutions from around the world and encourages listeners to take action. Brought to you by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).

Episode Date
Don Berwick and Kedar Mate on the Future of Health Care Dialogue
Jun 05, 2026
Building Intelligent Health Around the Whole Person with Nasim Afsar
May 22, 2026
Health Reform, Affordability, and the Future of Coverage with Professor Jonathan Gruber
May 15, 2026
The Future of Medicine with AI: Dr. Bob Wachter on Opportunity and Risk
May 08, 2026
Why Public Health Matters Most When You Don’t See It with Dr. Rochelle Walensky
May 01, 2026
Why Public Health Still Matters More Than Ever with Dr. Tom Frieden
Apr 24, 2026
Why Better Questions Lead to Better Care with Hugo Campos
Apr 17, 2026
How Maryland Is Testing a Different Way to Pay for Health Care with Dr. Meena Seshamani
Apr 10, 2026
Why Public Health Keeps Getting Ignored Until It’s Too Late with Michelle Williams & Linda Marsa
Apr 03, 2026
The Real Reason Training Alone Cannot Fix Patient Safety with Professor Charles Vincent
Mar 27, 2026
How Stories Can Help People Rethink Health Care Reform with Shantanu Rai
Mar 20, 2026
Who Sets the Table for Quality Measurement in U.S. Health Care? with Brenna Rabel & Michelle Schreiber
Mar 13, 2026
AI, Interoperability, and the Next Era of Quality Measurement with Jeff Geppert
Mar 06, 2026
The Hidden Math Of Aging That Is Bankrupting Middle-Class Families with Dr. Joanne Lynn
Feb 27, 2026
The Cost Shifting Cycle Behind Your Rising Premiums with Chris Van Gorder
Feb 20, 2026
Disrupting the Aging Services Model Through Community-Based Care with Marta Corvêlo
Feb 13, 2026
Why The US Pays More For The Same Medications Than Everyone Else with Dr. Jerry Avorn
Feb 06, 2026
The Power of Everyday Mindfulness: Healing, Community, and Public Health Impact with Brother Phap Luu
Jan 30, 2026
Beyond Compliance: Vivek Garg on Patient-Centered Quality and Real-Time Improvement
Jan 27, 2026
Medicaid Work Requirements and the Unraveling of Health Coverage with Ben Sommers
Jan 16, 2026
Who Guards Healthcare AI? Inside CHAI’s Push for Trust and Transparency with Dr. Brian Anderson
Jan 09, 2026
From Chaos to Care: Dr. Gary Kaplan on Leading with Quality
Jan 02, 2026
Patient Safety in the Age of AI: Risks, Rewards, and Reality live at the IHI Forum
Dec 19, 2025
The Cost of Not Listening: How Medical Silencing Harms Patients with Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan
Dec 12, 2025
From Bankruptcy to Rescue: Dr. Gregg Meyer on the Emergency that Transformed Massachusetts Healthcare
Dec 05, 2025
Medicaid: What’s at Risk, and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever with Cindy Mann
Nov 21, 2025
Relearning Trust: How Science, Communication, and Preparedness Must Evolve with Dr. Michael Osterholm
Nov 14, 2025
Healing Those Who Served: Dr. David Shulkin on the VA’s Legacy and the Future of American Health Care.
Nov 07, 2025
Information Sickness: How Our Media Environment Is Harming Public Health with Joshua Sharfstein & Joanne Kenen
Oct 31, 2025
From Patient to Advocate: Rosie Bartel on Transforming Pain into Change
Oct 24, 2025
Upstream Medicine: Healing Through Trust, Dignity, and Context - with Dr. Sandeep Kapoor
Oct 17, 2025
Regulation, consternation, Food and Drug Administration - with Robert Califf
Oct 10, 2025
The chronic impact of health care corporatization on clinicians and patients - with Peter Grinspoon
Oct 03, 2025
The economics of medication - with Vinay Patel
Sep 26, 2025
The story of the NHS and what we can learn from it - with Bob Klaber
Sep 19, 2025
Housing, homelessness, and health - with Rosanne Haggerty
Sep 12, 2025
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Optimism, Concern, and the Future of Health Care with Don Berwick & Kedar Mate
Sep 05, 2025
Safety x AI - with Jason Adelman
Aug 29, 2025
Madd love: Reducing recidivism rates in young adults - with Gregg Croteau
Aug 22, 2025
It shouldn't take a crisis to make us talk about public health - with Howard Koh
Aug 15, 2025
Inequities, inequalities, and truth to power - with Steven Woolf
Aug 08, 2025
Graduate medical education and social contracts - with Tom Nasca
Aug 01, 2025
Home-based care to tackle maternal health inequities and improve outcomes - with Rebekah Gee
Jul 25, 2025
Humans in health care - with Tom Fisher
Jul 18, 2025
The story of palliative care, on the big screen - with Jessica Zitter
Jul 11, 2025
Kindness and what matters to you - with Maureen Bisognano
Jun 27, 2025
The human impact of today's politics on the oldest public hospital in America - with Eric Wei
Jun 20, 2025
The connection between meaning and purpose to reduce staff burnout - with Steve Swensen
Jun 13, 2025
Health Care AI at Speed – Recorded at IHI Leadership Alliance Spring Meeting 2025 with Brett Moran, Charles Binkley & Lucas Zier
Jun 06, 2025
Upstream and downstream determinants of health and the water we drink - with Cydian Kauffman
May 30, 2025
Join the patient revolution - with Victor M. Montori
May 23, 2025
Imagine a public health system built on mutual aid, participation, and dignity with Eric Reinhart
May 16, 2025
Has healthcare fully realized the potential of AI? with Eric Horvitz
May 09, 2025
Democratizing Expertise with Sanjeev Arora
May 02, 2025
Keeping Patients over Profits with Dhruv Khullar
Apr 25, 2025
Demystifying Dental Health with Melissa Burroughs
Apr 18, 2025
Catholic Health Care with Patricia Gabow
Apr 11, 2025
Movement Building and Large Scale Change with Joe McCannon
Apr 04, 2025
Rational Public Policy with Mike Chernew
Mar 28, 2025
The Evolution of Palliative Care with Christine Cassel
Mar 21, 2025
Think Tanks and Their Role in Health Care Policy with Andrea Ducas
Mar 14, 2025
Anyone Can Choose Leadership with Dennis Wagner and John Scanlon
Mar 07, 2025
The Economics and Ills of U.S. Health Care and Health Insurance with Zack Cooper
Feb 28, 2025
Continuous Learning for Better Care with Daniel Hyman and Peter Margolis
Feb 21, 2025
Approaching Systems Change with Dan Heath
Feb 14, 2025
The Past, Present, and Future of Health Plan Innovation with Liz Fowler
Feb 07, 2025
Turn off the lights with Jeff Thompson at the IHI Forum
Jan 31, 2025
There is no quality without equity with Thea James and Bisola Ojikutu
Jan 24, 2025
Building an Age Friendly Movement with Terry Fulmer and Faith Mitchell
Jan 17, 2025
Is medical education stuck in the past? with Abraham Nussbaum
Jan 10, 2025
The importance of the "hand-off" in health care with Christopher Landrigan
Dec 20, 2024
Workforce planning, workforce wellbeing, and workforce retention with Navina Evans
Dec 13, 2024
Cutting through the misinformation with Celine Gounder
Dec 06, 2024
When people of the system own the system with April Kyle and Doug Eby
Nov 29, 2024
Health system ownership with Hayden Rooke-Ley
Nov 22, 2024
Politics, mobilization, and political force with Marshall Ganz
Nov 15, 2024
What is social capital and what value does it have in health care? with Tom Lee
Nov 08, 2024
Ethical conundrums aplenty with Vardit Ravitsky
Nov 01, 2024
How technology giants like Google are impacting healthcare with Michael Howell
Oct 25, 2024
Expanding the role of health systems beyond traditional hospital care with Michael Dowling
Oct 18, 2024
Can trust in health care journalism be rebuilt? with David Rousseau
Oct 11, 2024
Using information, insights (and humans) to improve outcomes with Eric Poon
Oct 04, 2024
Building will and change with agency with Pedja Stojicic
Sep 27, 2024
The importance of access to information and data as a patient and caregiver with Susannah Fox
Sep 20, 2024
The transformative shift from health care in hospitals to home-based care
Sep 13, 2024
Maintaining medical care amidst bombs with Dr. Olesya Vynnyk and Dr. Miguel Cendoroglo Neto
Sep 06, 2024
Art, activism, and health care with Michelle Browder
Aug 30, 2024
Rerun: What Happened to Patient Safety with Sue Sheridan
Aug 23, 2024
Rerun - Penalized for Being Sick: The Uniquely American Crisis of Medical Debt with Berneta L. Haynes
Aug 16, 2024
We need a health care system that supports healthy aging with Maria Carney and Charles Kenney
Aug 09, 2024
Patient empowerment and community engagement for better health outcomes
Aug 02, 2024
The future of medical education with Holly Humphrey
Jul 26, 2024
The importance of evidence-based medicine and health care with Dr. Rita Redberg
Jul 19, 2024
The Power of Patients and Clinicians Aligning on a Deep Issue: Prior Authorization Law Change, with Dr. Nisha Mehta and Dr. Tina Shah
Jul 12, 2024
Beacons of scientific truth, with Alan Weil
Jul 05, 2024
Information exchange and the role publications play in health care and medical media today, with Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, 17th Editor-in-Chief of JAMA and the JAMA Network
Jun 28, 2024
Let's talk about "hospitalists" and what the term means with its inventor Robert Wachter
Jun 21, 2024
If you don't learn their story, you're cheating the patient and yourself with Dr. David Reuben
Jun 14, 2024
Taking the Policy Route to Improve Coverage and Care with Leslie Dach, Founder and chair of Protect Our Care
Jun 07, 2024
The Need for a Healthier, More Supportive Environment and System for Health Care Professionals with Eileen Barrett, J. Corey Feist, and Wendy Dean
May 31, 2024
Patient-Centric Care with Susan Edgman-Levitan
May 24, 2024
Big Data, Big Opportunity to Improve Patient Care with Dr. John Halamka, President of Mayo Clinic Platform
May 17, 2024
Do Health Care Systems Really Focus on Ensuring that Patients Have a Positive Experience? with Meg Gaines
May 10, 2024
Why Do Prescription Drugs Cost So Much with Aaron Kesselheim, Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School
May 03, 2024
A Lesson in Preparedness: Qatar, COVID, and the FIFA World Cup
Apr 26, 2024
Is Health Care for Women and Families Still a Neglected Aspect of the US Health Care System? with Dr. Neel Shah
Apr 19, 2024
The Concerning Influence of Private Equity in the Health Care with Rosemary Batt
Apr 12, 2024
Combating Misinformation and Restoring Faith in Evidence-Based Medicine with Rich Baron
Apr 05, 2024
Building a Culture of Appreciation for the Nursing Community with Bonnie Barnes and Deb Zimmermann
Mar 29, 2024
From Theory to Practice with Vineet Arora
Mar 22, 2024
Safety net hospitals and their role in serving under-resourced communities with Fred Cerise
Mar 15, 2024
What it Means When a Health Care Provider gets Acquired by a Private Equity Firm with Zirui Song, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Mar 01, 2024
A Brief History of Trust and Health Care with Lewis A. Grossman
Feb 16, 2024
Transforming Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities with Mai Pham
Feb 02, 2024
An Innovative Care Management Model for a Fragmented System with Kathleen Noonan
Jan 19, 2024
Disrupting the Pharma Industry with Affordable Medication for Everyone with Dan Liljenquist
Jan 05, 2024
Investing in Local Communities to Improve Health with David Zuckerman, President and Founder of Healthcare Anchor Network
Dec 22, 2023
The Free Clinic Movement with Stephanie Willding
Dec 08, 2023
The Power of Networks for Learning, Improvement, and Large-scale Change with Helen Bevan
Nov 24, 2023
Sweden's Health System: A stark contrast to the US health system with Goran Henriks
Nov 10, 2023
Health Care's Unfortunate Role in the Global Climate Crisis with Gary Cohen
Oct 27, 2023
Health care for LGBTQ+ patients: Treat others as they would want to be treated with Kyle P. Christiason
Oct 13, 2023
Our healthcare system is confusing... Please help! with Lisa K. Fitzpatrick
Sep 29, 2023
Why does medicine cost so much? with Aaron S. Kesselheim
Sep 15, 2023
Journalism and Health Care: A Relationship Worth Talking About with Noam Levey
Sep 01, 2023
Reversing the Harms of Mass Incarceration with Emily Wang
Aug 18, 2023
Are Health Insurers Always the Villains? with Sachin Jain
Aug 04, 2023
An Innovative Response to Medical Debt with Allison Sesso
Jul 21, 2023
What is a Safety Net Hospital? with Elaine Batchlor
Jul 07, 2023
Some Hard Truths About US Health Care with Jason Leitch
Jun 23, 2023
Is More Care Better Care? with Vikas Saini
Jun 09, 2023
From Challenges to Triumph: Tackling Hepatitis C and Advancing Healthcare with Francis Collins
May 26, 2023
What Happened to Patient Safety with Sue Sheridan
May 12, 2023
The Poverty and Bad Health Cycle with Alister Martin
Apr 28, 2023
Penalized for Being Sick: The Uniquely American Crisis of Medical Debt with Berneta L. Haynes
Apr 14, 2023
How to Make Health Care Work for Patients with Rushika Fernandopulle
Apr 14, 2023
Welcome to Turn on the Lights
Apr 14, 2023
Introducing Turn on the Lights: Illuminating the Complexities of US Healthcare
Apr 04, 2023