Disruptive Solutions to Our Health Care Challenges with Chelsea Clinton

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.5 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Our guest on this week’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy is Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea and I discuss her many initiatives, including radical solutions to our health care challenges. Chelsea Clinton works to drive the vision and programmatic objectives of the Clinton Foundation. As vice chair, Chelsea works alongside the Foundation’s leadership and partners to help create greater opportunities for people to build better futures for themselves, their families, and their communities. Chelsea is a tireless advocate for expanding access to early childhood education, improving the health and well-being of Americans across the country, providing the next generation of young leaders with the resources they need to turn their ideas into action, and ensuring the empowerment of girls and women is a cross-cutting priority across all of the Foundation’s programs and initiatives. You won’t want to miss our conversation with this thought leader.

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0:00.0	So Chelsea, I really happy to have you on the doctor's pharmacy.
0:06.6	Thanks for coming.
0:07.6	Happy to be here, Mark.
0:08.6	Thanks for having me.
0:09.6	And I want to get into this rumor that I heard once that you wanted to be a doctor.
0:13.9	Is that true?
0:15.2	Well, when I was very little, I wanted to build spaceships in satellites.
0:23.6	And I went to space camp, which really was one of the great highlights of my childhood
0:28.4	partly because Sally Ride was my space camp graduation speaker.
0:31.5	Oh, wow.
0:32.5	She was an astronaut.
0:33.5	She was an astronaut.
0:34.5	She was the first American woman in space with NASA.
0:40.1	Sadly is no longer with us, but remains one of my great heroines and someone I was so grateful
0:45.2	to be able to write about in my children's book she persisted to answer your question.
0:49.7	I did for a while want to be a doctor and I actually went to Stanford thinking that I was
0:55.3	going to be pre-med.
0:56.3	And as much as I am grateful for my grounding in biology, chemistry, physics, I realized
1:04.4	in college I was more interested in what today we'd call the social determinants of health
1:11.2	and public health more broadly and holistically.
1:18.3	So that led me to get first a master's degree in international relations with a focus
1:22.4	on global public health later, a doctorate in the same area and to complement that with
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