For more than two decades, Dr. Mysheika Roberts has been at the forefront of protecting public health in Columbus.
As the city’s health commissioner, she advises families about what vaccines to get, works to improve racial disparities in health care and provides essential services to pregnant women, new moms and their babies.
Dr. Roberts advocates for patients, so that no matter their financial means, they can get the medical and dental care they need.
She’s now navigating a staff of 600 through uncertain times, as the president and federal health officials cast doubt on medical science, pull funding and rewrite decades of established health practices.
Dr. Roberts joins us on this hour of All Sides.
Guests:
- Dr. Mysheika Roberts, health commissioner, Columbus Public Health
- Lauren Gardner, reporter, Politico
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