In Episode 6, we officially launch our new, multi-year Gold Humanism Honor Society International Initiative, “Healing the Heart of Healthcare: Reimagining how we listen, connect, and collaborate.”

“Healing the Heart of Healthcare” builds on the previous, 2020-2021 GHHS initiative, “Humanism & Healing: Structural Racism & Its Impact on Medicine.” From that grew so many GHHS chapter projects, an anti-racism library, training tools, and much more – as well as an entire virtual conference in May 2021.

The “Healing the Heart of Healthcare” continues this work, prompting GHHS chapters, as well as GHHS members who have graduated and are now in practice or other roles, to consider how they could help further this mission within their own corner of the world. It is rooted in our growing understanding of the impact that the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism have had on our psyche, our connections, and healthcare at large.

Podcast host Dr. Hellen Ransom opens this episode, which features a conversation among four GHHS leaders around the work of the new “Healing the Heart of Healthcare” GHHS International Initiative: