What do you get when you mix medical expertise with the art of storytelling?
You get science translated into action. Our guest Dr. Celine Gounder is an “interpreter” of sorts between sufferers of public health crises and non-medical people like activists, journalists, all the way up to elected officials and other public officials, to ensure their voices are heard and something is being done about the suffering.
Dr. Gounder is a practicing HIV/infectious diseases specialist and internist, epidemiologist (aka disease detective), journalist and filmmaker. In early 2015, Dr. Gounder spent two months volunteering as an Ebola aid worker in Guinea and is able to draw eerily similar parallels to what is happening on the political scene today in the US.
We talk about how she uses storytelling in the medical field to be a conduit for change, her predictions on how COVID-19 will change American cultural norms, and her hopes for what the future of healthcare access will look like post COVID. She also gives us insight into the not often talked about long-lasting negative impacts of pandemics, beyond the death tolls.
Dr. Celine Gounder is the host of two Podcasts, one is American Diagnosis, a podcast on health and social justice, and Epidemic, a podcast about the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 / coronavirus epidemic, which she co-hosts with former U. S. Ebola czar Ron Klain.
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Podcast Produced by: Dana Drahos
Podcast Edited by: Joseph Gangemi
Additional Support by: Katherine An
Theme music by: Qais Essar
Artwork by: Masheed Ahadi