March 29, 2024

Part One: Hiba Baroud is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Vanderbilt U. She speaks with us about her piece at theconversation.com, Measuring Up US Infrastructure Against Other Countries.

Part Two: Jon Rosmann, Executive Director of SafeNetRx, and Iowa State Rep. and pharmacist John Forbes on Iowa’s program to redistribute unused drugs from nursing homes, rather than throw them out. The drugs go to low income patients. In 2016 the program recovered and distributed drugs worth $3.4 million. This year they expect to top $5 million.