Epidemic: The Tata Way
September 26, 2023
Podcast
Episode 5 of the “Eradicating Smallpox” podcast explores how a partnership between public health institutions and a huge, influential private company was key in the campaign to eliminate smallpox.
A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox
By Céline Gounder
March 29, 2024
KFF Health News Original
Physician and podcast host Céline Gounder traveled to India and Bangladesh and brought back never-before-heard stories, many from public health workers whose voices have been missing from the record documenting the eradication of smallpox.
Journalists Recap How Smallpox Was Wiped Out and How Opioid Settlement Cash Is Being Paid Out
September 9, 2023
KFF Health News Original
KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Epidemic: Bodies Remember What Was Done to Them
October 10, 2023
Podcast
Trust is hard to build and easy to break. In Episode 6 of the “Eradicating Smallpox” podcast, meet Chandrakant Pandav, a health worker who used laughter and song to try to rebuild trust with communities harmed by India’s sometimes violent and coercive family planning campaign.
Journalists Dig Into Measles, Abortion Access, and Medicaid Expansion
March 30, 2024
KFF Health News Original
KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
NPR and KFF Health News Share the Story of Two Health Heroes Who Helped Stop Smallpox
September 5, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Regina G. Barber from NPR’s “Shortwave” podcast speaks with physician-epidemiologist Céline Gounder about two men who were among the public health heroes who helped wipe out a 3,000-year-old virus, and the lessons that victory offers for the next public health emergency.
Listen: Who Investigates Suspicious Deaths in Your Community — And Why It Matters
January 11, 2023
KFF Health News Original
KHN senior correspondent Samantha Young appeared on the “Apple News Today” podcast and KOA, a public radio station in Denver, to discuss the difference between coroners and medical examiners and why it matters.
Journalists Track Efforts to Curb the Opioid Crisis and Put Catholic Hospitals Under the Scope
March 23, 2024
KFF Health News Original
KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Epidemic: Speedboat Epidemiology
August 29, 2023
Podcast
In Bangladesh, smallpox eradication workers went to great lengths to vaccinate even one person, sometimes traveling by speedboat, crossing rickety bamboo bridges or leech-infested paddy fields. Episode 4 of the “Eradicating Smallpox” podcast is about what it takes to bring care directly to people where they are.
Timeline: The Final Years of the Campaign to End Smallpox
July 18, 2023
KFF Health News Original
Many people working in global health thought eradicating smallpox was impossible. They were wrong. Season 2 of the Epidemic podcast, “Eradicating Smallpox,” is a journey to South Asia during the last days of variola major smallpox. Explore the timeline to learn about significant dates in the final push to end the virus.
‘An Arm and a Leg’: Getting Insurance to Pay for Oral Surgery Is Like Pulling Teeth
By Dan Weissmann
December 22, 2022
KFF Health News Original
A car crash left a woman in need of oral surgery, but her health insurance wouldn’t cover it. Her ongoing fight shows podcast host Dan Weissmann the weird way insurance treats teeth and reveals a big problem in the Obamacare marketplace.
KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Our 300th Episode!
June 1, 2023
Podcast
When KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” podcast launched in 2017, Republicans in Washington were engaged in an (ultimately unsuccessful) campaign to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act. The next six years would see a pandemic, increasingly unaffordable care, and a health care workforce experiencing unprecedented burnout. In the podcast’s 300th episode, host and chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner explores the past and possible future of the U.S. health care system with three prominent “big thinkers” in health policy: Ezekiel Emanuel of the University of Pennsylvania, Jeff Goldsmith of Health Futures, and Farzad Mostashari of Aledade.
KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Covid Response Coordinator Speaks
December 22, 2022
KFF Health News Original
In this special episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, talks with host Julie Rovner, KHN’s chief Washington correspondent, about where we are in the pandemic and how we should transition out of the public health emergency. This episode was taped on Dec. 20.
‘An Arm and a Leg’: The Year in Review, From Prenatal Testing to Insulin Pricing
By Dan Weissmann
December 29, 2022
KFF Health News Original
The editorial team of “An Arm and a Leg” looks back on the reporting that hit close to home over the past year, including insulin pricing and prenatal testing.
Tech Luminaries Give RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Message a Boost
By Darius Tahir
June 15, 2023
KFF Health News Original
The views of the leader of a broad anti-vaccine movement who is now running for president are unchallenged in public forums run by several prominent Silicon Valley figures.
An Arm and a Leg: A Doctor’s Love Letter to ‘The People’s Hospital’
By Dan Weissmann
April 3, 2023
Podcast
Could a charity hospital founded by a crusading Dutch playwright, a group of Quakers, and a judge working undercover become a model for the U.S. health care system? In this episode of the podcast “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann speaks with Dr. Ricardo Nuila to find out.
Journalists Discuss Enduring Effects of Long Covid and Handling of Opioid Settlement Funds
April 29, 2023
KFF Health News Original
KFF Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.
Listen: Grieving Families Face the Cruelest Bills
September 30, 2022
KFF Health News Original
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber talks with NPR’s “Consider This” podcast about her reporting on families confronted with medical bills while grieving the loss of a baby who received expensive hospital care.
‘An Arm and a Leg’: He Made a Video About Health Insurance Terminology That Went Viral
By Dan Weissmann
December 9, 2022
KFF Health News Original
A video producer’s quest for health coverage led him to create a video about insurance terminology. That video now has over a million views. Here’s how he did it.
Join Our Live Web Event
August 30, 2023
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Web Event: Thinking Big in Public Health, Inspired by the End of Smallpox Join an online conversation led by Céline Gounder, a physician-epidemiologist and the host of “Eradicating Smallpox,” Season 2 of the “Epidemic” podcast. The docuseries explores the parallels between the campaign to end a centuries-old disease and the challenges public health faces today. […]