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When Urgent Care Replaces Primary Care, Who Gets Left Behind?
HealthSpark, Episode 29: Mallika Marshall, an internal medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Chelsea Urgent Care Clinic and Revere Health Center, reflects on the critical gaps in how the US health care system serves vulnerable populations and how strengthening access to primary care can move us toward more equitable outcomes.
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Why Does the World's Most Expensive Health Care System Fall Short on Health Outcomes?
HealthSpark, Episode 28: Benjamin Rome, an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a health policy researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital, illuminates how fragmented incentives, high prices, and policy choices make US health care so expensive and what it will take to change that.
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What Happens When Only Some Parts of the World Can Respond to Disease Outbreaks?
HealthSpark, Episode 27: Christopher Carter, molecular epidemiologist at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, examines how pathogen genomic sequencing can strengthen disease surveillance and why equitable global access to epidemiological tools is so important for global health security.
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Why are Millions Dying from a Curable Disease?
HealthSpark, Episode 22: Rushdy Ahmad, Director of the Diagnostics Accelerator at Harvard's Wyss Institute, examines why curable diseases like tuberculosis still claim so many lives. He discusses what it will take across science, funding, and policy to get simple tests into the places where people need them most.
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Is Obesity Our Most Visible and Misunderstood Health Inequity?
HealthSpark, Episode 18: Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine physician scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, explains why obesity is one of the most complex challenges in modern health care and explores what it will take to replace blame with evidence‑based, compassionate action.
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What Happens When Your Watch Starts Acting Like a Clinician?
HealthSpark, Episode 17: Elliott Antman, Cardiologist and Senior Physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, examines how smartwatches and other consumer devices are redefining what patients notice and bring into the exam room, and how clinicians can use this data effectively.
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Is Private Equity Strengthening Health Care, or Eroding it from Within?
HealthSpark, Episode 16: Leemore Dafny, an applied microeconomist and former Deputy Director for Health Care and Antitrust at the Federal Trade Commission, examines how private equity-driven consolidation is reshaping health care spending and market stability, and whether these deals serve the public interest by protecting access, affordability, quality, and competition.
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Informed Consent That Builds Trust, Protection, and Understanding in Clinical Research
Informed consent is an evolving, trust-building partnership between researchers and participants—one that goes far beyond a signature to ensure true understanding, respect autonomy, and navigate the growing ethical and technological complexities of modern clinical studies.
