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Think about your more recent experience with your doctor, pharmacy or health insurance company. Did you shudder?

Most people don’t have a “Meh” 🤷🏽‍♀️reaction. Healthcare, whether public or private, often evokes a strong reaction, whether favorable or angst-ridden.

But, it’s highly likely your experience with healthcare may be far different—and may be far from equal (or equitable)—from the people around you.

In today’s episode, Expert-in-residence Dr. Jillian Pintye, nurse scientist and epidemiologist, joins Mike and Helena to talk about public health. Together, we deep-dive on
🎙️Dr. Jillian’s research in Kenya and access to pre-exposure prophylaxis HIV medications for vulnerable populations
🎙️Structures, policies and accountability, from the individual to the institution
🎙️Maternal mortality and morbidity rates for birthing persons of color
🎙️The case for doulas for every pregnant person
🎙️Structural racism
🎙️Medical racism
🎙️Unconscious biases
🎙️The politicization of DEI (is it too charged to even mention?); how DEI goes beyond race, gender, and the workplace—it also includes age, neurodiversity, religion, disability, socioeconomic status, education, marital status, language, and veteran status

A quick note on “DEI”: This is not a political podcast. We don’t tend to address topics of a political nature, so if you have strong thoughts and opinions about DEI, one way or the other, that’s totally okay. We’re not making a case either way, we’re simply calling attention to the fact that by focusing only on the parts that evoke all the biggest feels, it fails to account for all of the populations, persons and parts that it encompasses. Helena sees this a lot with vulnerable populations and limited access to nutritious foods (food deserts and food swamps exist for far too much of the population). Her thoughts: Access to affordable, nutritious food is a right; not a privilege.

Dr. Jillian Pintye, RN, MPH, PhD is trained as both a nurse and epidemiologist and serves on faculty at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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