Prescribing painkillers proves to be a double-edged sword: although many patients might see an improvement in their lives, it can also lead to cases of addiction and overdose.
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HHPR Associate Editor Christopher Li interviewed Dr. Ingrid Katz, MD, MHS, Associate Physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Associate Faculty Director at the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and an affiliated scientist at the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital about vaccine nationalism in our present moment as well as building equity into global health.
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Supply-side interventions developed to address the opioid epidemic ignore the social structures that created and perpetuated it, while also creating shifts in the opioid market correlated with movement away from natural opiates and towards increased usage of more potent heroin and synthetic opioids. As a result, this shift has led to rises in overall OUD-associated mortality rate.
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HHPR Associate Editor Minsoo Kwon interviewed Dr. Lois Lee about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on Women’s Health, broad impact health careers, and her Harvard Medical School course, “Social Change and the Practice of Medicine.”
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HHPR Associate Editor Natalie Wing interviewed Dr. George Molina, MD, MPH, who is a surgical oncologist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and at the Brigham and Women’s Center for Surgery and Public Health. He also conducts research in public health regarding access to care and the impact of the surgical safety checklist. He completed a residency program in General Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and a two-year post-graduate fellowship at Ariadne Labs. He holds an MPH in Quantitative Methods from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, an MD from Harvard Medical School and a BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University.
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