NEJM Interviews
NEJM Group
Insightful conversations with leading experts in the field of health care, medical research, policy, and more from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Each episode examines the many complexities found at the junction of medicine and society.
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Aug 12, 2020 • 25min
Building a Successful Public Health Response to Covid-19
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. E.J. Rubin, L.R. Baden, and S. Morrissey. Audio Interview: Building a Successful Public Health Response to Covid-19. N Engl J Med 2020;383:e67.
Aug 12, 2020 • 10min
NEJM Interview: Dr. Katherine Baicker on assessments of health care spending in the United States and moving toward higher-value use of resources.
Dr. Katherine Baicker is dean of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. K. Baicker and A. Chandra. Do We Spend Too Much on Health Care? N Engl J Med 2020;383:605-608.
Aug 5, 2020 • 22min
The Impact of Covid-19 on Patients with Other Diseases, with Arnold Epstein
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Arnold Epstein is the John H. Foster Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Associate Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. E.J. Rubin and Others. Audio Interview: The Impact of Covid-19 on Patients with Other Diseases, with Arnold Epstein. N Engl J Med 2020;383:e62.
Aug 5, 2020 • 11min
NEJM Interview: Dr. Donald Berwick on the history and challenges of measuring and improving health care quality in the United States.
Dr. Donald Berwick is president emeritus and a senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D.M. Berwick and C.K. Cassel. The NAM and the Quality of Health Care — Inflecting a Field. N Engl J Med 2020;383:505-508.
Jul 29, 2020 • 8min
How Policy Shapes Health Care
Eric Schneider is senior vice president for policy and research at the Commonwealth Fund and a member of theJournal’s Perspective Advisory Board. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. E.C. Schneider. Health Care as an Ongoing Policy Project. N Engl J Med 2020;383:405-408. E.C. Schneider, D. Malina, and S. Morrissey. Fundamentals of U.S. Health Policy — A Basic Training Perspective Series. N Engl J Med 2020;383:486-487.
Jul 29, 2020 • 27min
New SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Results, with Peter Piot
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Peter Piot is the Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission on Covid-19. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. E.J. Rubin and Others. Audio Interview: New SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Results, with Peter Piot. N Engl J Med 2020;383:e57.
Jul 22, 2020 • 11min
NEJM Interview: Dr. Caroline Buckee on the uses — and limitations — of epidemiologic modeling to predict the spread of Covid-19.
Dr. Caroline Buckee is the associate director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. I. Holmdahl and C. Buckee. Wrong but Useful — What Covid-19 Epidemiologic Models Can and Cannot Tell Us. N Engl J Med 2020;383:303-305. E.C. Schneider. Failing the Test — The Tragic Data Gap Undermining the U.S. Pandemic Response. N Engl J Med 2020;383:299-302.
Jul 22, 2020 • 20min
Dexamethasone and Covid-19
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. E.J. Rubin, L.R. Baden, and S. Morrissey. Audio Interview: Dexamethasone and Covid-19. N Engl J Med 2020;383:e52.
Jul 15, 2020 • 17min
NEJM Interview: Dr. Michelle Morse on how academic medical centers can engage with social movements to confront inequities in health care practices.
Dr. Michelle Morse is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and cofounder of EqualHealth. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. M. Morse and J. Loscalzo. Creating Real Change at Academic Medical Centers — How Social Movements Can Be Timely Catalysts. N Engl J Med 2020;383:199-201.
Jul 15, 2020 • 23min
Covid-19 Vaccine Development
Eric Rubin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal. Lindsey Baden is a Deputy Editor of the Journal. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. E.J. Rubin, L.R. Baden, and S. Morrissey. Audio Interview: Covid-19 Vaccine Development. N Engl J Med 2020;383:e40.
