Episode 12 | Where Policy Meets Patients: Lessons from the ED on Bridging Care, Policy, and Public Health with Dr. Anne Zink
In this episode of In Service of Health, Dr. Joneigh Khaldun sits down with Dr. Anne Zink, an emergency physician, former state health leader, and national health policy expert, to explore what it takes to bridge health care and public health. From leading Alaska's COVID-19 response to rethinking ho...
What happens when you stop treating the emergency department (ED) as the end of the line for health policy and start seeing it as a window into what’s broken?
That’s the perspective Dr. Anne Zink brings to public health leadership.
In a recent episode of In Service of Health, Dr. Zink shares how her experience as an emergency physician shapes her approach to policy. The ED, where resources are limited, time is short, and the same problems show up again and again is where “all good public policy comes to fail.” But instead of accepting that, Dr. Zink demonstrates how aligning systems and listening deeply to patients can drive real solutions.
This episode highlights the many shared challenges across frontline health care delivery, public health, and health policy, and the need for solutions that are just as aligned.
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