Prescribing A Healthier Future with Dr. Akilah Weber Pierson

Family holidays are supposed to be joyful — but for many of us, they’re complicated, emotional, and sometimes exhausting. In this episode of Prescribing a Healthier Future, Dr. Akilah Webber Pearson sits down with her cousins for a deeply honest conversation about what family gatherings are really like behind the scenes. From generational differences and unspoken tensions to traditions, boundaries, and unconditional love, this episode explores why family dynamics can be so challenging

What does it really mean to walk onto a college campus where you’re not the minority — where your professors, your classmates, your leaders look like you? In this powerful episode of Prescribing a Healthier Future, Dr. Akilah Weber Pearson sits down with Dr. Kelly Elmore to explore the impact of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) — not just on students, but on entire communities. You’ll hear the untold truth about how one small HBCU in New Orleans sends more

In this powerful and deeply personal episode of Prescribing a Healthier Future, Dr. Akilah Weber Pierson sits down with her mother, Dr. Shirley Weber — California’s Secretary of State, educator, and trailblazer. Together, they discuss: How parenting has evolved across generations Raising children in the digital age The importance of community and education Why the health of our families is tied to the health of our democracy This conversation blends family, purpose, and civic

What if your doctor’s prescription for better health had nothing to do with medicine—and everything to do with where you live? In this episode of Prescribing a Healthier Future, Dr. Akilah Weber Pearson, physician and California State Senator, sits down with Dr. Rodney Hood, a nationally recognized leader in health equity, to explore how the social determinants of health—like housing, food access, transportation, education, and even racism—shape our well-being far more than

What if your doctor’s prescription for better health had nothing to do with medicine—and everything to do with where you live? In this episode of Prescribing a Healthier Future, Dr. Akilah Weber Pearson, physician and California State Senator, sits down with Dr. Rodney Hood, a nationally recognized leader in health equity, to explore how the social determinants of health—like housing, food access, transportation, education, and even racism—shape our well-being far more than

What happens when the rules of democracy are rewritten in the middle of the game? In this urgent first episode of Prescribing a Healthier Future, California State Senator and physician Dr. Akilah Weber Pierson exposes a national power grab threatening not just our democracy, but the very programs that keep families healthy, fed, and housed. Joined by Wil Rodriguez-Kennedy, Chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party, Dr. Weber Pierson unpacks how mid-decade redistricting in states like Texas,