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.
Produced by Marla Hiller.
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Expanding Access to Immunizations in the Americ...
In this conversation, learn about immunization programs in the Americas, what works to close gaps and expand access to new vaccines, and the important roles schools, civil society organizations, and community groups play in sustaining momentum for immunization programs.
53 min
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Dan Diamond, Washington Post: “A big hole that ...
Dan Diamond, Washington Post reporter on the White House and health care, shares his reflections on President Trump’s swirling passions to reshape Washington’s built environment, with intense controversy surrounding the ballroom.
35 min
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times: Reflection...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, offers her reflections on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s tenure over the past fifteen months.
38 min
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The Resurgence of Measles in the United States ...
Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security broadcast conversation with Katherine E. Bliss and J. Stephen Morrison, regarding the current measles outbreaks, the threats posed by sustained disease transmission, and opportunities for regional and international collaboration to prevent and respond to health security challenges.
52 min
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Emily Gibbons, Gilead Sciences: the lenacapavir...
Emily Gibbons, Gilead Sciences, explains the partnership between Gilead Sciences, the Trump administration, and the Global Fund to bring lenacapavir, the twice-yearly injectable HIV/AIDS prevention tool, to two million persons at-risk in ten African countries in three years.
28 min
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Book Event: Deployed by Kevin De Cock
This episode of The CommonHealth features a discussion of the recently published book, Deployed: A Physician on the Front Lines of Global Health, by Kevin M. De Cock.
57 min
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Andi L. Fristedt, Parkinson’s Foundation: “The ...
Andi L. Fristedt, former senior official at CDC, FDA and the Senate HELP Committee, heads up a newly established Washington, D.C. office of the Parkinson’s Foundation.
32 min
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Keith Poulsen, Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic ...
Keith Poulsen, professor at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, provides an update on the status of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1), as pertains to dairy cattle, poultry, wildlife—and humans.
43 min
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Measles Outbreaks and Elimination in North Amer...
Listen to this broadcast from the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security regarding measles outbreaks and elimination in the North American context and the implications of sustained measles transmission for regional and global health security.
54 min
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Jane Halton: the launch of CEPI 3.0
Jane Halton, chair of CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, walks us through CEPI's evolution since its founding in early 2017, and the launch on February 14, at the Munich Security Conference, of CEPI 3.0.
24 min
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John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust: “The ...
John-Arne Røttingen, CEO of Wellcome Trust, is a Norwegian leader whose expertise spans, encompassing medicine, science, research, clinical trials, negotiations, diplomacy, philanthropy, financing of global health, and governance of international institutions.
34 min
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Keith Humphreys, Stanford University: China’s s...
Keith Humphreys, a leading expert on addiction psychiatry, based at Stanford University, unpacks his January article in Science examining the steep reduction in overdoses deaths—between May 2023 and the end of 2024—in the United States and Canada.
34 min
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Amb. (ret) Karl Hofmann, Health X Partners: “No...
Amb. (ret) Karl Hofmann, CEO of the recently launched Health X Partners (HXP), a parent company under which Population Services International (PSI) and the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AID Foundation (EGPAF) now operate, explains his personal story.
51 min
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Dr. Chris Murray, IHME: The “Commission of Comm...
Dr. Chris Murray, IHME, co-chairs the Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health, which will launch its report in February at the Munich Security Conference.
33 min
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Prevention Intention: Wafaa El-Sadr on People a...
In the second episode of the Prevention Intention mini-series, Katherine speaks with Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor in Epidemiology at Columbia University and the director of ICAP.
37 min
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Prevention Intention: Linda-Gail Bekker on HIV ...
In the first episode of the Prevention Intention mini-series, a series featuring conversations with leading female HIV clinical researchers, Katherine speaks with Linda-Gail Bekker, a medical doctor and director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town.
39 min
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Erika Elvander, former U.S. Health Attache in B...
Erika Elvander served her country as a federal career health diplomat for 27 years, including as the U.S. Health Attache in Beijing from the spring 2021 until the end of 2024.
39 min
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Marian Wentworth, MSH: "I have been working sin...
Marian Wentworth, President & CEO, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), reflects on the stunning year of 2025, a series of radical pivots for MSH.
38 min
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Rep. Adam Smith on Engaging China
Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security discussion with Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, on his experience leading a Congressional delegation to China in late September 2025.
41 min
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Dr. Rick Brennan: “This is not good for the Ame...
Dr. Rick Brennan, an acclaimed Australian humanitarian leader who led WHO and NGO crisis response in multiple conflicts over several decades, walks us through his personal story
35 min
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Fair Doses: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic ...
Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security book launch of Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity by Seth Berkley.
42 min
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Keizo Takemi, recent Japan Minister of Health, ...
Keizo Takemi, recent Japan Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (September 2023-October 2024), shares his personal story that took him to Taiwan, CNN/Japan, the Diet, Harvard, back to the Diet, and recently into the cabinet of then Prime Minister Kishida.
40 min
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Dr. Debra Houry, former Chief Medical Officer a...
Dr. Debra Houry joined the podcast, following her resignation from CDC on August 25, upon the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, and shortly after her September 17 testimony before the Senate HELP Committee.
39 min
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Peter Piot, LSHTM: “A brilliant coalition” esse...
The renowned global health leader, Peter Piot, LSHTM, opens this conversation with reflections on what drove the historic global health successes, including “a brilliant coalition” and U.S. bipartisan leadership grounded in statecraft and strategic thinking.
50 min
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The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Dea...
Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security book launch of The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics.
58 min