Max is joined by Riana Anderson, PhD, psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. They discuss her program EMBRACE, aimed at helping Black families cope with racism, as well as “our mental health minute,” a video series aiming to raise mental health awareness and address mental health stigma in the Black community.

Max is joined by Zoe Julian, MD, OBGYN & research fellow at the university of Alabama in Birmingham. They discuss the landscape of reproductive justice in medical/health professional's education, the role of community expertise in health professionals' education on structural racism & reproductive justice, and the self-learning platform she developed titled "structures and self" for learners' engagement with material on structural racism & reproductive justice.

Max is joined by a returning guest, Yale’s Ben Howell, MD, MHS. They discuss his involvement in advocacy efforts to get medication for opioid use disorder in Connecticut’s prisons and jails, as well as the social and legal complexities individuals with a history of incarceration & opioid use disorder face trying to access basic necessities such as housing.

Max is joined by Oni Black Stock, MD, MHS, Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control for the NYC Health Department. They discuss her transition from a primarily academic career to public health and service, sex and gender disparities in access to Pre-exposure prophylaxis medication for HIV, and her office's efforts to reduce the incidence of HIV in NYC.

Max is joined by Gregg Gonsalves, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, Activist and 2018 MacArthur Genius Grant winner. They discuss his work at the intersection of human rights and public health, more specifically HIV/AIDS activism, and global and domestic issues pertaining to harm reduction and access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV.

Max is joined by Sam Fox, MD, JD, a psychiatry resident in the Boston area and Yale Med alum. They discuss her work on LGBTQ asylum seekers' mental health, and the barriers they face during the asylum process.

Max is joined by Dr. Nathan Chomilo, a pediatrician and Internist in Minnesotta, with a passion for education and literacy for children. They discuss the impact of structural racism on k-12 education, downstream effects on child, adolescent and adult health outcomes, and the national "Reach out and Read" initiative in clinical settings, aiming at improving literacy among children.

Max is joined by Dr. Jennifer Tsai, Yale Emergency Medicine resident and writer. They discuss race-based medicine: its pitfalls, its impact on medical education, and her vision for a medical education -- and medical field in general, that engages critically with the social sciences for the better.

Max is joined by Dr. Katie O'Neill, a general surgery resident and fellow in the National Clinician Scholar Program. She is interested in trauma surgery, and he research focuses on the experiences of individuals who have been victims of gun shots. They talk about the recovery period for such individuals, and especially ongoing initiatives in the New Haven community aiming at improving the quality of the recovery process, and policy implications.

Max is joined by Harriet Washington, journalist, ethicist and author of the award-winning book "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" for a discussion of the book's legacy 12 years after its publishing, and her insights on unequal medical treatment on the basis of race, and the current landscape of medical research and drug discovery.

Max is joined by Dorothy Roberts, JD, professor of Law, Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss her work of 30+ years analyzing the role of government in policing, and criminalizing Black women's behaviors during pregnancy, race-science, how these policies and theories propagate and have a larger impact of both maternal health and U.S. society at large.

Max discusses with Ayana Jordan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in psychiatry and addiction specialist at Yale School of Medicine (and friendly-rival Hampton Pirate) about the manifestations of the current opioid epidemic specifically as it regards the Black community, disparities in coverage and funding for treatment, as well as her faith-based interventions to address substance use disorders in Black and Latinx churches (Imani and Imani Rompiendo) in Connecticut. Subscribe to Flip the...

Max's guest is Sakena Abedin, MD, PhD, a pediatrician and historian of science and medicine at Yale University. They discuss the history of the relationship between Yale New Haven Hospital, the School of Medicine, and the surrounding New Haven, and larger Connecticut communities. They explore the themes of race, class and barriers that often impact the relationships between large academic medical centers and the communities their surrounding communities, and the implications for medical...

Max speaks with Dr. Emily Wang, physician and head of the health justice lab at Yale University. They discuss the nationwide Transitions Clinic Network's growth, the impact this model of care is having on the participants, and the role that the healthcare industry at large could play in contributing to criminal justice reform at a policy level, and in terms of providing resources and even employment for individuals with histories of incarceration.

Do you know anyone who's been to jail or prison? How is their health? This episode, Max chats with Dr Lisa Puglisi and Ms Monya Saunders of the Transitions Clinic in New Haven, CT, a member-site of a network of clinics that specialize in providing care for individuals who have histories of incarceration. They talk about the nuts and bolts of the practice, struggles their patients face during the transition period, and the value of nurturing relationships in healthcare settings to achieve...

Max discusses incarceration and health with Dr. Benjamin Howell, a physician and fellow in the national clinical scholars program at Yale. We discuss the challenges and shortcomings of U.S. healthcare and criminal justice systems, the ways in which specific conditions are criminalized and concentrated in prison settings, and the pitfalls at the intersection of health and prison. This episode is the first in a series of 3 related to health and incarceration in the U.S.

Our guest is Khiara Bridges, JD, PhD, professor of law and anthropology at Boston university, and reproductive rights expert. We discuss the experience of low-income, pregnant Black women in NYC as they seek prenatal care -- their experience with the healthcare system, navigating imposed rules and restrictions as recipients of public insurance. We also discuss maternal mortality disparities in the broader context of race and racism in the U.S., and her future projects.

This episode’s topic is pipeline efforts in medicine. Max chats with Drs Darin Latimore and Joan Reed, respectively deans of diversity, inclusion and community engagement at Yale School of Medicine and Harvard School of Medicine. They have both built successful pipeline programs, and share insights in terms of why they matter, the impact they can have on efforts of diversity in medicine and addressing health disparities.

Max meets up with Dr. Marcella Nuñez-Smith, a physician and health equity researcher at Yale University and a native of Saint Thomas. They discuss the after-math of hurricanes Irma and Maria in the Virgin Islands and the rest of the Eastern Caribbean, challenges the region faces due to healthcare policies affecting the 5 U.S. territories, and a path models in which medical education has a role in disaster preparedness/relief efforts.

In light of the 1 year anniversary of hurricane Maria, We are doing a 2-part series on the U.S. territories affected by last year's hurricanes Maria and Irma. For Part 1, Max chats with Dr Marietta Vazquez, a Yale pediatric infectious disease specialist and Boricua, about the hurricane aftermath from the Puerto-rican diaspora’s perspective: the medical relief efforts that took place, hurricane season preparation in Puerto Rico, and the role of disaster preparedness education for physicians in...

Max discusses with Dr. Marco Ramos, a psychiatry resident and historian of medicine at Yale, about the activist role psychiatrists played in Argentina during the authoritarian regime through their therapeutic relationships with patients who faced state violence, some outcome of this movement, and lessons to be learned for today's medical trainees interested in advocacy.

Max meets up with Dr. Benjamin Oldfield, a primary care physician at Yale. They talk about harm reduction: the concept, current efforts, barriers and patient engagement strategies, as we face the current drug epidemic, and work towards improving our health systems' effectiveness.

Max talks with Dr. Helena Hansen, a psychiatrist and anthropologist at NYU, about opioids and other addictive substances: drug marketing, federal and state policies, overdose epidemics, public reaction and the racialization of it all, having led to the creation of a 2-tiered system when it comes to addiction interventions, primarily on the basis of race. They take a deeper dive into elements of harm reduction, and the barriers some patients in her clinical practice face due to race and class.

Max meets up with Dr. Akshay Pendyal, a cardiologist & fellow in the national clinician scholars program at Yale, and they discuss his recent piece in KevinMD, calling physicians to action about using their power to address structural racism. They take a closer look at a particular issue impacted by structural racism: housing insecurity, and this creates for patients with heart failure when seeking relief.

Max's guest is Dr. Carolyn Roberts, an assistant professor of history of science and medicine at Yale University. Max and Carolyn discuss the role physicians had in the British transatlantic slave trade, from the coast of Africa to the Americas, as well as the burgeoning of the pharmaceutical industry then; and what lessons we can learn from this history in order to continue improving the nature of medicine and its role in the lives of historically marginalized populations.