In the series, we dive into understanding the fundamental nature of our healthcare system and why we can’t approach any social or civic change without addressing its connection to healthcare. How does our system work? How did it get that way? What has the pandemic revealed about healthcare in the U.S.? What can regular citizens and leaders do to improve their community’s health outcomes?
In the series, we dive into understanding the fundamental nature of our healthcare system and why we can’t approach any social or civic change without addressing its connection to healthcare. How does our system work? How did it get that way? What has the pandemic revealed about healthcare in the U.S.? What can regular citizens and leaders do to improve their community’s health outcomes?
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With Vanderbilt’s Dr. Mark Denison, one of the world’s foremost experts on coronaviruses. What are the risks of taking or not taking the vaccine from a scientist who developed it. What is an mRNA vaccine and how does it actually work? Well-known around the world for receiving a generous $1 million donation from Dolly Parton, the Denison Lab was the first to show human antibody response to the Moderna vaccine. What is an mRNA vaccine and how does it actually work?
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With Healthcare Pricing Expert Ge Bai, PhD, CPA. How did our healthcare system get so expensive? What should the Government’s role be in healthcare pricing?What types of care should or shouldn’t be on the free market? The explosion of telemedicine created by the pandemic. Why did premiums go up after the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Does value-based care work?
Dr. Sherry Glied is the Dean of New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Dr. Glied has extensive expertise in healthcare policy. In June of 2010, Glied was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, having previously served as Senior Economist for health care and labor market policy on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Bush and Clinton. She also held the position of the Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. There are too many other accolades to list but we did want to share that Glied is a triple threat in Economics holding a B.A. in economics from Yale University, an M.A. in economics from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Dr. Mark Denison is currently the director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He also serves as a professor of immunology, pathology and microbiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. The Denison Lab at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a world-leading Coronavirus research laboratory and is an active training program for students and postdoctoral fellows to develop new investigators in viral cell biology, molecular biology, and genetics. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has funded his lab for over 30 years, with the objective of gaining a better understanding of the replication, pathogenesis and evolution of the coronavirus class of RNA viruses.
Dr. Ge Bai is an associate professor of Accounting at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and of Health Policy & Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an expert on health care pricing, policy, and management and has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, written for the Wall Street Journal, and published her studies in numerous academic journals. Her work has been widely featured in ABC, CNN, Fox News, NBC, New York Times, NPR, Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Dr. Bai has a Ph. D, Accounting from Michigan State University and an MS, Accounting, Eastern Michigan University.
