Today’s guest is Susannah Fox, author of Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care. The book is a deep dive into the expert network of patients, survivors and caregivers who are charting a new path of innovation and research.

April 17, 2023

We'll be unpacking lessons from the COVID 19 pandemic for many years to come. Dr. Tomás Aragón, who leads public health for the State of California, joins us to discuss what he learned guiding America's most populous state through this challenging and disruptive period.

April 3, 2024

In 2023, TIME named Dr. Ziad Obermeyer one of the 100 most influential people working in AI. As a professor at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and co-founder of a non-profit and startup in the AI space, his work centers on how to leverage AI to improve health and avoid racial bias.

Mar 20, 2024

Black women in the US are 3-4 times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than white women. Dr. Monica McLemore joins us to discuss why we should stop blaming women and instead address the underlying social and healthcare drivers that impact pregnancy outcomes.

Mar 6, 2024

What is your just cause? Karen Dale's “why” is to catalyze big changes that make healthcare more equitable and humane. She is a bold and fearless leader and the DC Market President for AmeriHealth Caritas. In this episode she shares the leadership practices that support her work from sharing power to community co-design.

Feb 21, 2024

When it comes to healthcare, there is a lot we agree on. We want a system that is affordable, easy to understand and is there for us when we need it. Shaped by these principles, Natalie Davis and her team at United States of Care are building a healthcare system that works for everyone.

Feb 7, 2024

Steve Downs, the co-founder of Building H and former CTO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, joins us to discuss how Building H is helping companies and designers re-engineer products and “product environments” so they improve rather than harm health.

Jan 24, 2024

Rural America — home to 60 million — is facing a healthcare crisis. Dr. Jennifer Schneider, CEO of Homeward, discusses how her company is re-architecting care delivery in rural America with the goals of improving access and health outcomes.

Jan 10, 2024

Long before it was common, community health centers (CHCs) had a model of care that was holistic, grounded in social change and embedded in the community. I sit down with Dr. Kyu Rhee, CEO of the National Association of CHCs.

Dec 13, 2023

Is whole health here to stay, or is it a shiny new object? Our guest today is Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, Chief Health Officer at Elevance Health. He falls soundly on the “here to stay” side of the ledger.

Nov 29, 2023

Tony led The California Endowment’s nearly $2 billion and decade-long investment to improve health in California by building the voice and power of communities. He joins me to discuss what they learned.

Nov 1, 2023

Jess Kahn joins me to discuss state efforts to integrate programs, technology and data to support whole person health. She led Medicaid data and systems at CMS and is now a partner at McKinsey specializing in state Medicaid and social service programs, public-sector data and technology.

Oct 18, 2023

Jennifer Pahlka and I discuss how to improve the impact of big new policy initiatives. Her book, “Recoding America”, is essential reading for anyone trying to make government – or any ambitious project - work for people.

Oct 4, 2023

Dr. Pooja Mittal, Health Net’s Chief Health Equity Officer, joins us to discuss how she uses data and community organizing to drive equity improvements for Health Net’s 3 million California members.

Sep 20, 2023

Alan Weil, Editor of Health Affairs, is the perfect person to launch our Season 2 conversation about what works. The conversation ended in an unexpected place - a discussion of governance and power.

Sep 6, 2023

We started this podcast with some big questions. In this episode Claudia sits down with her producer Avery Moore Kloss to discuss lessons learned and highlights from Season One and share what’s on deck for Season Two.

July 26, 2023

For Clemens Hong health is social justice work, rooted in the community-oriented primary care movement of the 1960s. He joins us for a powerful interview about implementing whole person care in LA County.

July 12, 2023

The US has a 94 percent treatment gap for substance use disorders. Treatments are expensive, ineffective, or they’re simply not available. Corbin Petro, CEO and Co-Founder of Eleanor Health is on a mission to close this gap.

June 28, 2023

Jacey Cooper gives us an on-the-ground look at CA’s CalAIM initiative that pairs intensive care management with access to social services. She shares how much communication, coordination, and agility was needed in the first year.

June 14, 2023

Sachin Jain is setting out to build a very different kind of company—a nationally scaled nonprofit health plan grounded in Scan’s founding story of activists seeking a new future of health for vulnerable communities.

May 31, 2023

Former NIMH director and renowned neuroscientist Tom Insel joins Claudia to talk about the state of mental health in America today. The conversation dives into what it will take to scale integrated treatment approaches across the nation.

May 17, 2023

Claudia chats with Dr. Aditi Mallick — Chief Medical Officer for Medicaid & CHIP at CMS — about their three-part agenda to improve equity, implement whole person care and expand coverage.

May 3, 2023

Abner Mason, Founder and CEO of SameSky Health, has spent decades working to reduce barriers to care faced by underserved people, who often experience harm and misunderstanding in health encounters. He joins me to talk about how to build trust in healthcare.

April 19, 2023

Many investors and founders shy away from building Medicaid-focused companies. Andy Slavitt – policymaker, investor and ‘In the Bubble’ host – joins us to discuss why this is a huge mistake.

April 5, 2023

Claudia sits down with Dr. Brad Gilbert who led Inland Empire Health Plan’s $30M investment in housing and other social supports when he was CEO, creating a template for California’s whole person health demonstration, CalAIM.

March 22, 2023

Claudia chats with Dr. Mini Kahlon, the founding Vice Dean of Health Ecosystem at Dell Medical School, about how to build health ecosystems and the role of medical schools in creating health beyond the clinic.

March 8, 2023

Former NC Secretary of Health Dr. Mandy Cohen joins us to talk about why a shift to whole person care is the right approach and how she generated bi-partisan support for NC’s groundbreaking Healthy Opportunities Pilots.

February 22, 2023

Welcome to The Other 80 with former senior White House advisor and entrepreneur Claudia Williams. This podcast is opening a new conversation about the move to whole person health in America.

February 8, 2023