Radio broadcast: Baltimore’s new health commissioner to focus on social determinants of health as she tries to help heal the riot-scarred city.

Leana Wen, M.D., an emergency physician,  argues that Baltimore,  traumatized by poverty, violence and drug abuse, can be treated through a better public-health infrastructure.

“We have to make the case that actually, everything comes back to health,” she told NPR. “My hope is that we can really make Baltimore into a model for the rest of the country to follow when it comes to treating the core roots of our problems.”