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The Dose

Dr. Joel Bervell

Booking Overview

The Dose is a health care and health policy conversation series hosted by Joel Bervell, featuring leaders tackling misinformation, maternal health, and patient financial harm. It’s a good platform for experts who can translate complex health issues into actionable, public-facing ideas.

Metrics

Episodes: 100

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000

Gender skew: Female

Listener location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

info@cmwf.org

thedose@commonwealthfund.org

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Host

Dr. Joel Bervell - Host of The Dose (Commonwealth Fund). Leads conversations with leading and emerging experts on where health care is headed, including health policy, public health, and practical solutions for impro...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Researchers, clinicians, policy experts, and nonprofit leaders who have demonstrated work/impact in health policy and public health (e.g., maternal health, medical debt/charity care, health information integrity) and can communicate clearly to broad audiences.
Required Achievements:  
Leadership roles in health policy/research or public health nonprofits, Recognized authorship, media presence, or substantial public impact (e.g., large-scale education, program outcomes), Demonstrated programmatic outcomes (e.g., debt relief achieved, community health initiatives, policy influence)

Recent Guest Discussions

Dr. Mike Varshavski (Doctor Mike) - Fighting Health Misinformation; What Institutions Get Wrong About Social Media; Why Entertainment And Education Are Not Opposites

Dr. Kaytura Felix - Black Maternal Health Crisis; Constellation Of Community Midwives Providing 'deep Care'; Barriers To Centering Families

Jared Walker - Erasing Medical Debt; Federal Patient Protections/charity Care Programs; How Dollar For Connects Patients; State Differences And Hospital Compliance

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Healthpolicy, Publichealth, Medicaldebt, Maternalhealth

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Dose
:

AI Has More to Offer Health Care (feat. Dr. Toyin Ajayi)

October 02, 2026

Much of the AI used in health care today is tied up in helping the industry manage its revenue streams — think billing and coding assistance. But Dr. Toyin Ajayi knows there's more AI can do to help manage the health of patients. On the new episode of The Dose, Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Dr. Ajayi, a board-certified family physician and CEO of the primary care provider Cityblock Health, about the ways she is using AI to make meaningful differences in the health of the most underserved patien...

Doctor Mike on Why Ceding the Internet Is a Public Health Threat

April 17, 2026

When people receive a medical diagnosis or experience a new symptom, the first thing many of us do is reach for our phone. If a doctor isn't available to provide an answer, someone else is. On The Dose podcast, host Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Dr. Mike Varshavski, a primary care physician with more than 30 million social media followers, about what it takes to fight health misinformation at scale, what health institutions still get wrong about social media, and why entertainment and education...

In "Deep Care," the Family Is the Sun Midwives Orbit Around (feat. Dr. Kaytura Felix)

April 10, 2026

Dr. Kaytura Felix didn't set out to document the Black maternal health crisis. She set out to find the people who are already doing something about it. On this episode of The Dose podcast, Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Felix, founder of the Black Birthing Futures project, about what she discovered: a constellation of Black community midwives providing "deep care" — clinical, emotional, social, and spiritual support centered on care of the birthing family. "The family is the sun and all the prov...

Publicly listed emails

info@cmwf.org

thedose@commonwealthfund.org

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