Brita Roy: Leveraging Community Resources for Better Health

Howie and Harlan are joined by Brita Roy of NYU Langone Health to discuss her work drawing on the existing assets of a community to improve health outcomes. Harlan reports on new research on the dangers of sugar substitutes; Howie reflects on the growing openness to the lab-leak hypothesis for the origins of COVID-19.  Links: “The artificial sweetener erythritol and cardiovascular event risk” Harlan Krumholz: “Why One Cardiologist Has Drunk His Last Diet Soda” “NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn Receives $166 Million from the Bezos Family to Transform Community Health” “Yale Partners With the Urban League and Others to Address Gun Violence in New Haven” “Meet Yale Internal Medicine: Brita Roy, MD, MPH, MHS” Brita Roy: “COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Access Among Black and Latinx Communities” “WHO abandons plans for crucial second phase of COVID-origins investigation” “U.S. Dept of Energy says with ‘low confidence’ that COVID may have leaked from a lab” “FBI director says covid-19 ‘most likely’ originated from lab incident” Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.