The CommonHealth
The CommonHealth is the podcast of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security. On The CommonHealth, hosts J. Stephen Morrison and Katherine Bliss delve deeply into the puzzle that connects pandemic preparedness and response, HIV/AIDS, routine immunization, and primary care, areas of huge import to human and national security. The CommonHealth replaces under a single podcast the Coronavirus Crisis Update, Pandemic Planet and AIDS Existential Moment.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Fmr. FDA Commissione...
Andrew and Steve talk to Fmr. FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg about what’s happened with testing in the U.S., the ‘global arms race’ to develop a vaccine, and how the U.S. and the world can develop, produce, and distribute any potential vaccine in an equitable way.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Military in the Mix
Steve and Andrew invite CSIS's Kathleen Hicks to discuss how the military can respond to COVID-19, and to what extent that can be done.
22 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: What's Next
Steve and Andrew discuss what’s happening with the U.S. response: the wholesale suspension of work and cultural events, the mixed messages coming from the Administration, and the unknown period we’re currently in as we wait for the worst part of the pandemic.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Economic Troubles
Steve and Andrew invite Stephanie Segal to discuss the economic shocks COVID-19 is causing, the so-far inadequate policy response, and the possible prolonged economic crisis to come.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: An Act of Desperation
Steve and Andrew speak with Heather Conley on the quarantine of 16 million people in northern Italy; how it came about, what it will mean for Italy’s economy and politics, and how Italy’s neighbors are responding.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Julie Gerberding, Merck
Steve Morrison speaks with Dr. Julie Gerberding on the current mood in Congress, the transition in the United States from a phase of containment to one of managing the spread COVID-19, and her outstanding concerns and reasons for hope.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Shared Threats
CSIS’s Steve Morrison and Andrew Schwartz discuss newly concentrated hotspots and the politicization of COVID-19, and how an adequate response to the outbreak requires more leadership, clarity and trust.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Live from Munich wit...
Steve speaks with Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Programme about what dynamics are driving this outbreak, why it should be seen as a security risk as well as a health risk, and what the WHO is doing.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Live from Munich wit...
Steve speaks with Orin Levine, director of Vaccine Delivery at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation about the investments the Foundation is making into the epidemic response, the urgent need for diagnostics and treatments, and how this infection might play out over the next year.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: More Than We Realized
As knowledge on COVID-19 evolves, Take as Directed will bring you the latest updates in this miniseries Coronavirus Crisis Update.
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Health Security Miniseries: CDC Director Rebecc...
Rebecca Martin discusses the CDC’s work on training field disease detectives and laboratory workers worldwide, how the CDC works across the world to respond to outbreaks, and the Commission’s recommendation that the US re-invest in Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA).
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Health Security Miniseries: Ambassador Jimmy Ko...
Ambassador Jimmy Kolker and Carolyn Reynolds discuss trends in global investment in health security, and the Commission's recommendations to invest in pandemic preparedness measures.
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Health Security Miniseries: CEPI CEO Richard Ha...
Dr. Richard Hatchett discusses CEPI's role in developing technologies to fight against high priority public health threats and emerging infectious diseases.
39 min
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Gender-based Violence as a Weapon of War
Janet Fleischman sits down with Melissa Dalton and Fatima Imam to discuss why gender-based violence has become a central feature in crises around the world.
30 min
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The New Threat - Making Sense of Vaccine-Derive...
Nellie Bristol discusses vaccine-derived polio with Dr. John Vertefeuille, the polio eradication branch chief at the CDC.
22 min
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Saving Lives Through Global Immunization
Katherine Bliss highlights some of the most striking moments of CSIS Global Health Policy Center's conference focused on global immunization.
24 min
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Malaria Eradication Within a Generation? How Pl...
In 2018, more than 200 million people contracted malaria around the world, and nearly half a million died of it. As countries continue to battle malaria within their borders, the international discussion turns to a loftier goal—complete global eradicatio
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Putin and Global Health: Friend or Foe?
In the last decade, Russia has increased its global engagement, while at the same time pursuing policies at home that are giving rise to HIV/AIDS and drug-resistant tuberculosis epidemics that are a risk for its own populations, as well as its neighbors.
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Rethinking Vaccine Delivery
While the world has seen tremendous improvement in the availability of life-saving vaccines, coverage rates have stagnated over the last decade. The U.S. government, a leading player in global immunization, is working with international organizations as
21 min
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Why Do Demographic Trends Matter for Global Hea...
The population of Africa is expected to double over the next 20 years, which means that many countries are facing either a demographic dividend or potentially a disaster, with critical implications for global health and development. In this episode of Ta
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The New Landscape for Gavi 5.0
At the end of June, the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, approved their new “5.0” strategy for 2021-2025, with an ambitious set of priorities for this new phase. In this episode of Take as Directed, Nellie Bristol sits down with Amanda Glassman, Exec
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Preparing Early Against Dangerous Pathogens
Since its inception in 2017, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, has come to be seen as among the most promising innovations in global health security. It works to accelerate the development and introduction of new vaccines agai
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Unpacking the DRC Ebola Crisis with Jason Stearns
In this episode of Take as Directed, J. Stephen Morrison sits down with Jason Stearns, Director of the Congo Research Group at the Center for International Cooperation at New York University. Jason is among America’s premier experts on Congolese politics
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Unpacking the DRC Ebola Crisis with David Gressly
In this episode of Take as Directed, J. Stephen Morrison sits down with David Gressly, the UN Emergency Ebola Response Coordinator in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Gressly was appointed in May by the UN Secretary General to lead a more stra
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Innovation and Optimism: A Conversation with Dr...
In this episode of Take as Directed, J. Stephen Morrison speaks with Dr. Trevor Mundel, President of the Global Health Division at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They discuss the arc of Dr. Mundel’s personal career and his remarkable tenure at
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