Polly Stryker
Senior Producer
I produce Health Dialogues at KQED, a statewide, monthly radio magazine about health issues, with a focus on minorities and the underserved. Our URL is www.healthdialogues.org
Articles
Health Dialogues examines the health of Native Americans in California. Have gambling revenues impacted the population's health status? We'll explore the current condition of Native American health, and hear from people doing something to help.
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<p>Immigration reform is in the air once again - with President Obama saying the issue will be tackled next year. Join Health Dialogues as we look at what it's like for undocumented and seasonal workers to get health care under the current system, and how immigration reform could change things.</p>
<p>Immgration reform is in the air once again - with President Obama saying the issue will be tackled next year. Join Health Dialogues as we look at what it's like for undocumented and seasonal workers to get health care under the current system, and how immigration reform could change things. </p>
<p>Conversation about health care reform is heating up in Washington. Here in California, we hear from health care providers, patient advocates, employers, insurers and others across the state about how they would tackle this issue.</p> <p>Polly Stryker, Senior Producer on Health Dialogues</p>
<p>During our first California Broadcast Journalism Fellowship we listened to Julie Rovner, National Public Radio’s correspondent on the Health Policy and Science Desk, talk on a <a href="/blogs/turn-health-care-its-head-say-panelists">panel about health care reform</a>. But at NPR, "health care reform" is a banned phrase on the air. Reform, Rovner said, is not a neutral term so she opts instead for "<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104768327">health care overhaul</a>." Whatever you call it, it's a huge and timely issue.