The State of Health is back after a brief summer vacation. This week, Emma D’Agostino, PhD joins the show to talk with Gunnar about their jointly written opinion piece that appeared in The Hill in mid-August entitled: New bipartisan legislation can encourage needed antibiotic development, where they called for bipartisan reform of the antibiotic market....
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Katy Monte, an immunocompromised woman who has received three transplants as a result of her end-stage cystic fibrosis, talks to Gunnar about getting a third COVID-19 vaccine after the FDA recommended booster shots for people who may not have developed antibodies after the initial doses. She explains the conversations she had with her care teams,...
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Seth Rotberg joins the podcast to talk through the in’s and out’s of patient advocacy, the patient’s role in drug development, and how patients can work with regulators to make sure the best possible medications reach approval. Since Gunnar considers himself a patient advocate, too, they are able to talk about their frustrations with the...
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In the end of summer 2020, Gunnar sat down to talk with then Lieutenant Governor Spencer Cox about the policymaker’s connection with cystic fibrosis and the state’s evolving response to COVID-19. Gunnar also solicits a question from a Utahan living with cystic fibrosis for the then Lieutenant Governor to answer. Gunnar talks about the need...
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Dr. Bill Smith, a visiting fellow in the life sciences at the Boston-based think tank, Pioneer Institute, and former drug industry veteran, joins the State of Health to talk about the evolving market dynamics in the drug industry starting with the Orphan Drug Act and the industry’s rush into therapeutic development for rare diseases. In...
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In this Three Questions episode where the role of the interviewer flips halfway through the show, Gunnar and Alaska Governor, Mike Dunleavy, talk about Alaska’s early success with the state’s vaccination campaign, the state’s integrated health system and how Alaska’s reliance on telehealth could be a playbook for other states as they look to normalize...
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Chris MacLeod is a Canadian living with cystic fibrosis and practicing attorney, who has been a fierce advocate for patients who need access to life-sustaining medications or treatments. He founded the not-for-profit organization Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Society to assist in carrying out this work. He also recently released a book entitled, “Beating the Odds:...
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