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Dr. Lisa Cooper, a forward-thinking national leader in health equity, returns to the podcast to talk with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about her new book, Why Are Health Disparities Everyone’s Problem? Dr. Cooper speaks about her upbringing in Liberia, her family’s move to the US, and her initial introduction to health disparities in the US. They talk about Dr. Cooper’s groundbreaking work examining why and how health disparities exist and what to do about them.