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Health Care Rounds

John Marchica

Booking Overview

An interview-led health care and pharma show focused on delivery, payment reform, policy, and industry innovation, typically featuring senior executives, health policy leaders, and prominent academic researchers. Credible pitches include health system and payer executives, digital health and pharmaceutical leaders, health economists, and evidence-based policy experts; booking difficulty is high because guests generally hold nationally recognized leadership or research positions.

Metrics

Episodes: 216

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 2.3k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

dyllen@grippimedia.com

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Host

John Marchica - John Marchica is the CEO and founder of Darwin Research Group and a longtime health care industry insider focused on health care delivery, payment reform, and industry developments.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Senior health care, payer, provider, pharmaceutical, or digital health executives; nationally recognized health policy leaders; and established physicians, health economists, or academic researchers with authoritative expertise.
Required Achievements:  
Executive leadership at major health care, pharmaceutical, payer, provider, or digital health organizations, Senior government or health policy appointments, Peer-reviewed research and academic leadership, National Academy of Medicine membership or comparable professional recognition

Recent Guest Discussions

Wei-Li Shao - Between-visit Care, Chronic Disease Management, Glp-1 Therapy, Behavioral Support, And Digital Health Delivery.

Larry Levitt - Health Care Affordability, Value-based Care, Public Trust In Science And Health Institutions, And Health Policy Reform.

Rachel M. Werner - Health Care Quality Measurement, Payment Incentives, Unintended Consequences Of Quality Reporting, Racial Disparities, And Long-term Care Reform.

Recent Topics

Value Based Care, Health Policy, Healthcare, Pharma, Digital Health

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Health Care Rounds
:

When MisInformation Becomes a Health Crisis w/ Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Johns Hopkins

September 04, 2026

Health misinformation is no longer a fringe problem on the margins of public health. It has a measurable body count, and the systems that once reliably corrected it, local journalism, trusted institutions, and federal health agencies, are eroding fast.Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement and Distinguished Professor of the Practice at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and co-author of "Information Sick," joins host John Marchic...

Real Health Care Happens Between Doctor Visits w/ Wei-Li Shao, President, Omada Health

August 21, 2026

Between 80% and 90% of health outcomes are shaped by what happens between doctor visits. Yet the entire U.S. health care system, from payment models to primary care, is built around the visit itself.  Wei-Li Shao, President of Omada Health, joins host John Marchica to break down why persistent, in-between-visit care is the missing layer in chronic disease management, and how pairing GLP-1 therapy with the right behavioral support program could be one of the most powerful levers the health car...

Mailbag: Debunking Vaccines Myths

August 13, 2026

A few weeks ago we conducted a survey of Our Take readers that included both listeners to our podcast and those who don’t (the latter group, we assume, was interested enough to complete a survey). We asked for questions you would like John to answer, and we got some great ones, including today’s question about vaccines and the long-debunked link between the MMR vaccine and autism spectrum disorder. In this first mailbag episode, John reviews the evidence, calls out the "revised" CDC website, ...

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