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Adding a Powerful Voice to Health Care

ASPR produces the weekly syndicated interview program “Conversations on Health Care,” which recently featured acclaimed opera star Renée Fleming.

She’s received worldwide praise for singing at the Super Bowl, during a presidential inauguration and regularly for The Metropolitan Opera, but we helped her find a way to share her voice in a new way. Fleming is the editor of “Music and Mind,” a curated collection of essays from leading scientists, artists, creative arts therapists, educators and health care providers about the powerful impacts of music and the arts on health and the human experience.

Fleming appeared on “Conversations on Health Care” to explain how she discovered her own music and mind connection early in her career when she had back pain and how a dinner with three Supreme Court justices led her to become an unexpected advocate for neuroscience.

Fleming, a five-time Grammy award winner, also told hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter what happened when she saw the results of a functional MRI experiment she took and what it means for all of us.

This special edition of “Conversations on Health Care” continued with guest Dr. Francis Collins, the former National Institutes of Health director, who wrote the foreword to the book. https://chcradio.com/episode/Ren%C3%A9e-Fleming/721

Remembering a Washington Legend

We’re grateful for the life and dedication of Charlie Peters, who recently passed away. Charlie founded Washington Monthly, a magazine and now a robust website we’re proud to help support.

The Monthly‘s amazing team of journalists remembered Charlie for his contributions to critical public policy discussions:  https://washingtonmonthly.com/charlie-peters/

“PBS Newshour” and The New York Times were just two of the major national news outlets that paid tribute to his accomplishments.

As author James Fallows wrote, “The ideas and example of the Washington Monthly’s founder and editor-in-chief for 30 years, who died on Thanksgiving Day at 96, can play an ongoing and indispensable role in responding to our country’s deepest problems.”

 

Dr. Fauci Meets With ASPR Client

Dr. Anthony Fauci met with our client Community Health Center at Aspen Ideas Health to explain only 20% of Americans right now have the COVID booster shot and we need to get that to 50% in the coming months. He believes a full-fledged public awareness campaign will commence soon once FDA and CDA give their final approval to a fall COVID shot. It was a sobering message in a beautiful setting. The full discussion is available at https://chcradio.com/episode/Dr.-Anthony-Fauci/681.

ASPR Wins PR News Award

Thank you PR News for recognizing our efforts to raise awareness and visibility of Community Health Center and its syndicated interview program “Conversations on Health Care.” We’ve been awarded an honorable mention in the #podcast category for the 2023 Nonprofit #Awards. #PR https://lnkd.in/eBifm_BA
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Some of the news coverage we’ve secured for this client includes the following:

CNBC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky interview cited with “Conversations on Health Care.” https://lnkd.in/eHCPnYHU

CNN: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases, interview cited from “Conversations on Health Care.” https://lnkd.in/eweFm8Wr

NBC News: Video link to “Conversations on Health Care” interview: https://lnkd.in/eB5iN7Ji

ABC News: “Conversations on Health Care” interview with Dr. Fauci credited: https://lnkd.in/exJ3KBcw

The Hill: Interview sourced from “Conversations on Health Care.” https://lnkd.in/e2RbjT8x

ABC Shows Client Interview
ASPR clients make news. In late 2022, Conversations on Health Care interviewed Dr. Anthony Fauci about COVID and we secured pick-up of the interview on ABC World News Tonight.
The full interview is available at https://chcradio.com/episode/Anthony-Fauci/654
News release:

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical advisor to President Biden, tells “Conversations on Health Care” that we still have widespread COVID infection and that the virus’ daily death count in the United States is “still too high…we want to get it to much lower than it is right now…it’s not an acceptable level, it’s not OK.” The 21-day average for COVID death is 373, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He says we “may be at a crossroads” as we enter the cooler months and “we are starting to see the emergence of sublineage variants of Omicron.”

Fauci, who is leaving his position at the end of the year, also agrees that policymakers are right to include other factors in addition to public health in their COVID decision-making. These factors include the impact decisions have on the economy, social well-being and education. “You have to be concerned about optimally protecting the people by public health measures like we had to do in the acute stage of the outbreak but also have to consider other aspects…impact on the economy, as well as impact on the health and well being of people outside of the realm of getting infected…I have always said we need to do whatever we can to safely keep children in school.”

Fauci reminds Americans the best protections are the COVID and flu vaccines, which are widely available right now.

Fauci says in terms of his next steps he’s strictly adhering to ethical rules and not negotiating for any position until after he leaves the government but he broadly wants to utilize his 54 years of experience at the National Institutes of Health for writing, lecturing and serving in an advisory capacity to inspire the younger generation to pursue their interests in medicine, science and public health.

The complete interview is online at www.chcradio.com and can be heard on “Conversations on Health Care” this Saturday and Sunday at 8:30 a.m. on WFED (1500 AM) in Washington, D.C., Sunday at 7:30 a.m. on WOR Radio in New York City and on YouTube, Apple podcasts, PodcastOne digital network and many other platforms.