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Conversations on Health Care is a radio show about the opportunities for reform and innovation in the health care system. In addition to health care headlines, the centerpiece of each show is a feature story and conversation with an innovator in the delivery of care from around the globe. Co-hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter each bring four decades of experience in overcoming the barriers that block access to care in their work at community health centers.  Their conversations with creative thinkers and doers from all parts of the field will enlighten and inspire all who believe that Health Care is a Right, Not a Privilege. Conversations is broadcast from WESU on the campus of Wesleyan University, and is underwritten by Community Health Center, Inc.

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Each week, Conversations on Health Care features a Bright Idea, that's improving health and wellness in everyday lives.

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Conversations on Health Care is a radio show about the opportunities for reform and innovation in the health care system.

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This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Paul Offit, Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and member of the FDA Advisory Committee that issued emergency authorization for the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer for distribution in the US. Dr. Offit says development of this new vaccine is a remarkable achievement backed by decades of scientific research that the Advisory Committee found to be safe an efficacious for widespread distribution. He’s urging the Biden Administration to accelerate vaccine production and distribution efforts.


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Congresswoman Lois Capps, U.S. Representative of California and founder of the House Nursing Caucus, discusses her commitment to quality health car...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 24:05
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Dr. Amelie Ramirez, director of Salud America!,a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national research program and network to prevent obesity among Lati...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2010
  • Length: 26:17
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Dr. Paul Grundy, IBM’s global director of health care and founder of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 25:46
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Dr. Howard Adelman, co-director of the national School Mental Health Project, a strategy to bring behavioral health services to schools.

Bought by KWIS 88.3 FM and KVSC


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 25:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Dr. Brent James, chief quality officer at Intermountain Healthcare, discusses his groundbreaking approach to clinical quality improvement.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2010
  • Length: 25:44
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Mildred Thompson, deputy director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity, discusses childhood obesity and the ca...

  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 25:38
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Mark Bertolini, president of Aetna, on the insurance industry’s response to health-care reform.

  • Added: May 19, 2010
  • Length: 25:33
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Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado on leading health-care reform at the state level.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 25:31
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Rebecca Patton, President of the American Nurses Association, on the critical role of nursing in meeting the challenge of healthcare access and tra...

  • Added: May 05, 2010
  • Length: 26:15
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A futurist perspective on health care with Dr. Ed O’Neil, Director of the Center for the Health Professions, and Professor in the Departments of Fa...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2010
  • Length: 25:40