Help us give away $25K 🙌

Do you know a healthcare non-profit positively impacting the lives and health of everyday Americans?

🎉 I’m thrilled to share The Heart of Healthcare Grant Challenge to give one deserving organization $25,000 and a full feature episode on the podcast.

We’re looking for organizations positively impacting the lives and health of everyday Americans. This can include health access, food insecurity, healthy housing, violence, mental health, environmental health, or any other social determinant of health. Please share this opportunity with any organizations you think deserve the grant.

New episodes

• 040 Patrick Brown, founder of Impossible Foods, doesn’t care about food. He just wants to stop climate change. And he knows the best way to halt global warming is to ditch meat from animals. A former Stanford Professor, Patrick Brown started Impossible Foods at age 60 and has helped grow it to a multi-billion dollar company and household name. In this episode, we talk about his journey to save the planet and human health, and how food is just the vessel for that mission.
• 041 Free the Pill and Make it Free. Last month, the first-ever application to the FDA was submitted to turn Opill birth control from prescription to over-the-counter (OTC) status. Unintended pregnancies in the U.S. are at an all-time low, yet they still represent nearly half of all pregnancies, and each one costs taxpayers over $9,000. In this short episode, I advocate for OTC birth control and the reason we should make it free.
• 042 Period Poverty. Nearly half of girls in the U.S. have lacked access to period products, and 1 in 5 have missed school because of it. With a tampon shortage and increasing costs, the problem is worsening and forcing girls to use unhygienic and unsafe alternatives. In this episode, we discuss the movement for menstrual equity with Lynette Medley, the Founder & CEO of No More Secrets Mind Body Spirituality.
• 043 August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month. And this year it hits different. We have faced a severe shortage of infant formula, with an out-of-stock rate surging to 70%. While it’s easy to say “just breastfeed!” — not everyone can breastfeed for a variety of reason, and we don’t exactly make it easy for working mothers. In today’s episode, we talk to Dr. Leila Strickland, a biologist and co-founder of Biomilq, a women-owned, Bill Gates funded infant nutrition company producing cultured breastmilk in a lab.

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Thank you,
Halle
Host, The Heart of Healthcare Podcast