The Dose

The Commonwealth Fund

The Dose is the Commonwealth Fund's podcast that presents fresh ideas, new perspectives, and compelling conversations about where health care is headed. Join host Joel Bervell this season for conversations with leading and emerging experts in health care and health policy. Get the Dose in your inbox: https://thedose.show/signup

  1. 17. apr.

    Doctor Mike on Why Ceding the Internet Is a Public Health Threat

    When people receive a medical diagnosis or experience a new symptom, the first thing many of us do is reach for our phone. If a doctor isn't available to provide an answer, someone else is. On The Dose podcast, host Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Dr. Mike Varshavski, a primary care physician with more than 30 million social media followers, about what it takes to fight health misinformation at scale, what health institutions still get wrong about social media, and why entertainment and education aren't opposites. Doctor Mike, as he's known, didn't set out to become a popular online figure. He says he was driven to act as he watched misinformation fill a space that medicine was too cautious to engage with. "We trust you to cut people open, to prescribe all these medicines that have potential side effects — but we don't trust you to make a video on the subject you're an expert on," he says, describing the double standard physicians face online. Show Notes: The Checkup with Doctor Mike

    30 min.

  2. 10. apr.

    In "Deep Care," the Family Is the Sun Midwives Orbit Around (feat. Dr. Kaytura Felix)

    Dr. Kaytura Felix didn't set out to document the Black maternal health crisis. She set out to find the people who are already doing something about it. On this episode of The Dose podcast, Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Felix, founder of the Black Birthing Futures project, about what she discovered: a constellation of Black community midwives providing "deep care" — clinical, emotional, social, and spiritual support centered on care of the birthing family. "The family is the sun and all the providers are orbiting them," says Felix. But keeping the family at the center isn't easy. Felix shares what stands between deep care and the families who need it most.

    29 min.

  3. 3. apr.

    Fighting Medical Debt? There's an App for That (feat. Jared Walker)

    Four in 10 Americans have medical debt. Most don't know there's a federal law that could eliminate it. On this episode of The Dose podcast, host Joel Bervell talks with Jared Walker about his nonprofit, Dollar For, which has helped Americans erase more than $100 million in medical debt by connecting them to the charity care programs that hospitals are legally required to offer but rarely publicize. "These hospitals are great. They're saving people's lives every single day," says Walker. "The problem is that they're also ruining people's financial lives." With Medicaid cuts on the horizon and health care costs continuing to rise, Walker explains how Dollar For's free screening tool works, why some states are doing a better job of protecting patients than others, and what it will take to make hospitals do what the law already requires.

    31 min.

  4. 27. mar.

    The Missing Ingredient in Health Care AI? Community Voices

    Seventy billion dollars is flowing into health care AI, but the people building it and the patients who need it most are rarely in the same room. On this episode, host Dr. Joel Bervell talks with pediatrician, researcher, and tech optimist Dr. Ivor Horn about what responsible AI innovation in health care requires. Drawing on her work building open-access datasets and equity frameworks for machine learning, Horn says that rigorous research, community partnership, and critical thinking are not obstacles to the work of building powerful tools — they are the work. "If you build for the most vulnerable patients," Horn says, "you will build a better product for everyone."

    34 min.

  5. 20. mar.

    Lupita Nyong'o Is Done Accepting Fibroids as Normal

    Uterine fibroids may affect up to 80 percent of women in their lifetime, but they remain under-researched, underfunded, and routinely dismissed. Lupita Nyong'o is working to change that. "I could not believe that women were partially or wholly losing their reproductive organs because of this noncancerous tumor situation." On this episode, Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Academy Award–winning actor and activist Lupita Nyong'o about her own diagnosis, and her decision to share an MRI of her body while launching the Make Fibroids Count campaign with the Foundation for Women's Health. "I realized without research we can't get any further," Nyong'o says. "We need to understand more in order to be able to equip the doctors who can then equip the patients." Show Notes: Lupita Nyong'o Make Fibroids Count (through the Foundation for Women's Health) The White Dress Project The Fibroid Foundation

    28 min.

  6. 14.11.2025

    Reimagining Birth, Restoring Trust (feat. Elaine Welteroth)

    A new movement in the United States is taking shape in maternal care, one that seeks to restore trust, center women, and protect lives. On this episode of The Dose podcast, Dr. Joel Bervell talks with author and advocate Elaine Welteroth about her own struggle finding patient-centered care during pregnancy and how the organization she founded, birthFUND, is funding midwifery care, supporting new mothers, and reimagining what safe, empowering birth can look like in America.

    28 min.

  7. 07.11.2025

    A Doula Network That's Saving Lives (feat. Omare Jimmerson)

    Across Oklahoma, a community-powered doula network is reshaping what equitable maternal care looks like. On this episode of The Dose, Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Omare Jimmerson of the Oklahoma Birth Equity Initiative about how culturally rooted doulas, smart policies, and practical supports—from rides to diapers—are helping hundreds of families thrive each year.

    25 min.
  8. A New Approach to Youth Mental Health (feat. Dr. Kevin Simon)

    31.10.2025

    A New Approach to Youth Mental Health (feat. Dr. Kevin Simon)

    AI therapy for children with anxiety, mental health training for staff at nonprofits that work with young people, and an "art pharmacy" that prescribes free museum tickets to kids — these are just some of the things Dr. Kevin Simon and his team are doing to help meet the mental health care needs of Boston's children. Simon, the city's first chief behavioral health officer, talks to host Dr. Joel Bervell on the new episode of The Dose, which centers on America's youth mental health crisis and the innovative things states and cities are doing for struggling children.

    27 min.
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The Dose is the Commonwealth Fund's podcast that presents fresh ideas, new perspectives, and compelling conversations about where health care is headed. Join host Joel Bervell this season for conversations with leading and emerging experts in health care and health policy. Get the Dose in your inbox: https://thedose.show/signup

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