
In the process of making UNNATURAL CAUSES, we filmed interviews with many of the country's leading scholars. In an effort to make some of this material available to the public, we have included edited transcripts of the interviews below. New transcripts will be added as they are ready.
Select interviews have also been edited into audio podcasts. Subscribe to our podcast feed via iTunes or directly. You can also download individual audio files and access them through the Health Equity database.

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Anthony Iton Interview 
EDITED INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT, UNNATURAL CAUSES In this original interview, Anthony Iton, director of the Alameda County Department of Public Health, talks about the extraordinary health of recent Latino immigrants and what we can all learn from them, the importance of hope, the power of community organizing, and why it's in all our best interest to tackle inequities sooner rather than later. |
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David Williams Interview 
EDITED INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT, UNNATURAL CAUSES In this original interview, David Williams, Harvard professor and executive director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America, discusses how race and class relate, how poor circumstances cluster geographically, and why political power is good for your health. |
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Jack Shonkoff Interview 
EDITED INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT, UNNATURAL CAUSES In this original interview, Dr. Jack Shonkoff, director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, discusses the importance of early childhood experiences on life-long health, learning, and success. He describes the effect of toxic stress on brain development, and asserts that we have a moral and economic incentive to provide the best environments for all children or pay the price later in the form of reduced productivity and the burden of chronic disease. |
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Nancy Krieger Interview 
Edited Interview Transcript, UNNATURAL CAUSES In this original interview conducted for UNNATURAL CAUSES, Professor Nancy Krieger of the Harvard School of Public Health discusses the social gradient, the political economy of health, and the role of public health in struggles for social justice. |
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Sir Michael Marmot Interview 
EDITED INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT, UNNATURAL CAUSES In an original interview, Michael Marmot discusses how he got into public health issues, then addresses a wide range of issues, from the healthy immigrant effect to social gradients in smoking to why the wealthy should care about health inequities... and what we can do about them. |
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