Best Max Lagos Podcasts (2024)

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What Is Protest and What Is Insanity? 27:02

3y ago27:02

27:02

Max discusses with Professor Jonathan Metzl, MD, Ph.D., professor of Psychiatry and Sociology at Vanderbilt University, where he directs the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. The conversation covers his broad scholarship, beginning with his book "Protest Psychosis," and factors that shape the overdiagnosing of Black men with schizophrenia, …

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No More Beds 34:00

3+ y ago34:00

34:00

In this episode, Max is joined by George Aumoithe, Ph.D., assistant professor of global health at Stony Brooke University, in the department of Africana Studies. They discuss his work on the effect of anti-inflationary economic policy and colorblind legal ideology on public hospitals, as it relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, namely, hospital bed sho…

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Worry About Infra-Redlining 38:32

3+ y ago38:32

38:32

Max is joined by Amy Moran-Thomas, PhD, associate professor of anthropology at MIT. They discuss current shortcomings in the FDA's medical devices approval process, with a sharp focus on pulse-oximeters, a device rendered particularly popular during the Pandemic. Studies have long shown that they do not detect low oxygen as accurately among people …

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Vaccine Passports, Health Security & Limitations 44:18

3+ y ago44:18

44:18

Max is joined by Adia Benton, PhD, MPH, cultural anthropologist with interests in global health, associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University. Given her previous work on the HIV and Ebola epidemics, she shares her insights on the U.S.' management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of vaccine passports, health security and ongoing …

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Polio and Covid Wars: Warm Springs and Mar-a-Lago 44:39

3+ y ago44:39

44:39

Max is joined by Yale historian of medicine Naomi Rogers, PhD. In their discussion, they compare the US response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the Polio pandemic, with regards to racial disparities during both pandemics, access to treatment and vaccines, and discuss implications for U.S. social and health policy making for the Biden administration.-…

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Black Maternal Health 34:16

3+ y ago34:16

34:16

Max is joined by Jasmine Johnson, MD, Maternal & Fetal Medicine fellow, and obstetrician gynecologist at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. They discuss her work related to preterm birth disparities the toll it has on Black families and other issues related to Black maternal health.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com…

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Black Medical Students’ Mental Well-being 20:36

3+ y ago20:36

20:36

In this brief episode, Max is joined by Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH, associate professor and endowed Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity in the division of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota School of Public Helth. Dr. Hardeman is a reproductive health equity researcher, but on this episode, they discuss …

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No More to Spend 31:42

3+ y ago31:42

31:42

Max is joined by Luke Messac, MD, PhD, an emergency medicine resident at Brown University and historian of science and medicine. They discuss his recent book, “No More to Spend: Neglect Construction of Scarcity in Malawi’s History of Healthcare.” They cover the impact of colonization and neocolonialism on healthcare policy in Malawi, and draw paral…

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A Disease of Huge Disparity 33:26

4y ago33:26

33:26

Max is joined by Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, an OB/GYN and global health research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. They discuss her research which is focused on intervention to make cervical cancer screenings more accessible to women in rural Kenya, as well as ways to translate lessons from healthcare delivery in low resource sett…

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Sunscreen Wars 27:37

4y ago27:37

27:37

Max is joined by Adewole Adamson, MD, MPP, a dermatologist and assistant professor at UT Austin. They discuss the controversy around UV exposure and cutaneous melanoma in people with darker skin, disparities in access to care for skin cancer, and pitfalls in dermatological education regarding skin of color at different stages in training. Dr. Adams…

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Health Insurance fights: In the Middle of a Pandemic! 40:19

4y ago40:19

40:19

Max is joined by Jamila Michener, PhD, associate professor in the department of government at Cornell University, and health policy scholar (@povertyscholar on twitter). They discuss Americans' the affordable care act and government-sponsored health insurance, what's race, ethnicity and migration got to do with it, and the future of the ACA in ligh…

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Sacred Birth 35:37

4y ago35:37

35:37

Max is Joined by Karen Scott, MD, MPH, an obstetrician-gynecologist at UCSF. They discuss her work as a reproductive justice-informed perinatal epidemiologist and obstetrician, the concept of participatory quality improvement, and her ongoing study "SACRED Birth" aimed at addressing obstetric racism faced by birthing Black people.--- Support this p…

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Looking beyond BMI 41:05

4y ago41:05

41:05

Max is joined by Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, MPA, an obesity medicine physician for children and adults, and researcher at Harvard Medical School. They discuss her work which focuses on racial disparities in obesity as a chronic illness, to disparities in access to treatment, stigma, and patient experiences in clinical settings. You'll also hear…

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So, Are You Jewish? 36:08

4y ago36:08

36:08

For breast cancer awareness month, Max is joined by Erika Stallings, an attorney, writer and BRCA awareness advocate. Erika describes her experience testing positive for the BRCA2 mutation and undergoing a prophylactic double mastectomy, her journey dealing with this experience herself, racial disparities in access to genetic testing, and her advoc…

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Same Burden, Different Outcomes 40:29

4y ago40:29

40:29

Black women have a similar disease burden of endometrial cancer compared to White women, but markedly greater mortality rates.Max is joined by Kemi Doll, MD, MCSR, a gynecologic oncologist and health services researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle. They discuss her research, focused on the experiences of Black women with endometrial …

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The Reproductive Health Umbrella 34:52

4y ago34:52

34:52

Max is joined by Monica McLemore, RN, MPH, PhD, associate professor in Family Health Care Nursing at the University of California San Francisco. She shares her perspective as a researcher focused on the experience of people with reproductive potential, the importance of interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaborations to solve problems and ar…

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Staying Afloat in Academic Medicine 38:41

4y ago38:41

38:41

Max is joined by Utibe Essien, MD, MPH, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh in general internal medicine. They discuss why he chose to pursue a research career and what helped him, as well as the need for more minority medical trainees to consider, and succeed in academic medicine. Subscribe and listen to Flip the Script on iTunes, …

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Entrenched in Racism 34:09

4+ y ago34:09

34:09

Today on Flip the Script, Max is Joined by Uche Blackstock, MD, physician and CEO of Advancing Health Equity. They discuss her experience as a Black physician in academic medicine, her health equity efforts since leaving academia, and her perspective as both a frontline healthcare worker during COVID-19 and a health justice advocate. Listen and sub…

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From Trauma to Abolition? 30:51

4+ y ago30:51

30:51

Max is joined by Brian Williams, MD, a trauma surgeon at the University of Chicago, and host of the podcast Race Violence & Medicine. They discuss police violence, the killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling in July 2016, and the subsequent mass shooting against law enforcement in Dallas, where he was the on-call trauma surgeon. What his ex…

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So Much Trauma 30:51

4+ y ago30:51

30:51

Max is joined by Brian Williams, MD, a trauma surgeon at the University of Chicago, and host of the podcast Race Violence & Medicine. They discuss police violence, the killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling in July 2016, and the subsequent mass shooting against law enforcement in Dallas, where he was the on-call trauma surgeon. What his ex…

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Racism, Kidney Function and More 32:07

4+ y ago32:07

32:07

Max is joined by Amaka Eneanya, MD, MPH, nephrologist at the university of pennsylvania. They discuss the landscape of racial disparities in kidney health across the lifespan. What role does race correction play in kidney function calculations? Who gets what kind of dialysis? What does the end of life look like for people with end stage renal disea…

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I Would (not) Like to See It 36:02

4+ y ago36:02

36:02

Max is joined by Myles Moody, PhD, incoming assistant professor in medical sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. They discuss his work on second-hand or vicarious racism and its impact on Black people's mental health, especially in the context of constant exposure to viral videos of anti-Black violence, news coverage and even freque…

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What Is Racial Capitalism? 32:13

4+ y ago32:13

32:13

Max is joined by Whitney Pirtle, PhD, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California Merced. They discuss her recent writing on racial capitalism in the context of COVID-19, the corporate response to Anti Black racism, and her thoughts on the future of pre-health education.By YaleUniversity

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Divesting from Whiteness 38:13

4+ y ago38:13

38:13

Max is joined today by Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, pediatrician, child and community health advocate from California. They discuss her review of the book "Dying of Whiteness" by Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD, and implications related to the recent response to COVID-19, racial disparities related to COVID-19 and her thoughts on what to expect should there be a va…

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Dealing with Racism as a Family 30:14

4+ y ago30:14

30:14

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 Bl…

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Structures and Self 23:40

4+ y ago23:40

23:40

Max is joined by Zoe Julian, MD, MPH 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 dev…

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Constant Vigilance 30:57

4+ y ago30:57

30:57

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 …

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Making PrEP More Accessible 24:11

5y ago24:11

24:11

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…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Max Lagos Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Flip the Script

Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, MD, MS

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What Is Protest and What Is Insanity? 27:02

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No More Beds 34:00

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Worry About Infra-Redlining 38:32

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Vaccine Passports, Health Security & Limitations 44:18

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Polio and Covid Wars: Warm Springs and Mar-a-Lago 44:39

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Black Maternal Health 34:16

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Black Medical Students’ Mental Well-being 20:36

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No More to Spend 31:42

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A Disease of Huge Disparity 33:26

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Sunscreen Wars 27:37

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Health Insurance fights: In the Middle of a Pandemic! 40:19

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Sacred Birth 35:37

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Looking beyond BMI 41:05

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So, Are You Jewish? 36:08

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Same Burden, Different Outcomes 40:29

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The Reproductive Health Umbrella 34:52

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Staying Afloat in Academic Medicine 38:41

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Entrenched in Racism 34:09

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From Trauma to Abolition? 30:51

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So Much Trauma 30:51

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Racism, Kidney Function and More 32:07

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I Would (not) Like to See It 36:02

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What Is Racial Capitalism? 32:13

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Divesting from Whiteness 38:13

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Dealing with Racism as a Family 30:14

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Structures and Self 23:40

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Constant Vigilance 30:57

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Making PrEP More Accessible 24:11

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