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Podcast: The IBJ Podcast with Mason King
Episode: The 'difficult, complex work' of extending life expectancy in five Indy neighborhoods
Description: IBJ Podcast host Mason King first interviewed Jamal Smith late in 2024 about an ambitious initiative to do no less than increase the life expectancy of residents in a set of historic neighborhoods in Marion County. You know the neighborhoods as Crown Hill, Historic Flanner House Homes, Highland Vicinity, Meridian Highland and Ransom Place. They contain in total more than 9,000 residents who, due to a number of socio-economic factors, have a much lower life expectancy than other Indy residents.
The neighborhoods are immediately north, west and south of the $4.3 billion IU Health hospital campus under construction downtown. Smith...