The CommonHealth

The CommonHealth is the podcast of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security. On The CommonHealth, hosts J. Stephen Morrison, Katherine Bliss, and Andrew Schwartz 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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Gary Edson, Covid Collaborative: “PEPFAR is a p...
Gary Edson, Covid Collaborative, reflects on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), now at its 20th anniversary.
30 min
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT: “Our attention has tu...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT national correspondent on health and politics, unpacks the post-Dobbs era: does it imperil or boost the right to contraception? Or both? Does it put the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) under new scrutiny?
33 min
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Dr. Mitch Wolfe: CDC regional offices are inext...
Dr. Mitch Wolfe, former CDC Chief Medical Officer, explains the genesis of CDC’s vision for six regional offices as a “long-term permanent overseas presence” that would expand coverage, deploy senior staff to develop regional strategies, and provide specialized technical expertise.
33 min
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Helen Branswell, STAT: “In the spring of 2022, ...
Helen Branswell, STAT, unpacks for us important complicated topics that can, frankly, be confusing. She explains why this is a big moment for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). She illuminates why GAVI is moving ahead with a hexavalent (6-in-1) vaccine that incorporates polio vaccines, and what that signals for the future of global polio control. In her recent profile of Mandy Cohen, the incoming CDC Director, Helen reflects on the changed understanding of what is required to lead CDC effectively. In the post-Covid period, how has health reporting changed?
34 min
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Dan Diamond, Washington Post: “Easier to play o...
Dan Diamond reflects on big emerging themes. The administration’s scientific, biomedical, and public health leadership has emptied. What should we make of Mandy Cohen’s appointment to be the next Director of CDC? With the turnover, who will be the “quarterback” of government during the next crisis?
29 min
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David Kramer, George W. Bush Institute: “The m...
David Kramer discusses the process of establishing the multi-billion dollar program at the Department of State; how ensuring equitable access to health care services for vulnerable and marginalized populations is important for national security; how investing in HIV services and partnering with countries to strengthen health care improves the relationships of the United States with countries overseas; and why it’s important that Congress reauthorize PEPFAR later this year.
33 min
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Jeremy Konyndyk, Refugees International: Oppone...
Jeremy Konyndyk joins us to share his thoughts on diverse crises.
40 min
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Matthew Goodman, CSIS: a dramatic G7 Hiroshima ...
Matt Goodman unpacks the several striking developments at the recent G-7 Summit in Hiroshima.
33 min
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Adam Havey, Emergent BioSolutions: “Lead with t...
Adam Havey speaks to the “great unwinding” with the end of the Public Health Emergency, including the outstanding work to bring about adequate sustained funding for preparedness capabilities.
36 min
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Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid Response ...
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid Response Coordinator, speaks to the “great unwinding” of the $4.6 trillion pandemic wartime transformation of America into a temporary social democracy.
37 min
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Joe Grogan: “Worried about the war that we are ...
Joe Grogan shares his insights on several outstanding policy challenges.
38 min
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Thomas Bollyky, CFR: The roots of the US Covid ...
Thomas Bollyky led an ambitious, nuanced effort to break down Covid outcomes across 50 states and Washington DC, published in the Lancet in April.
35 min
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Professor Heidi Larson, co-founder of The Globa...
As World Immunization Week gets underway, Professor Heidi Larson discusses the importance of closing the gaps in routine immunization coverage that have widened during the Covid-19 pandemic.
24 min
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Sachiko Imoto, SVP, Japan International Coopera...
In our conversation with Sachiko Imoto, she illuminates several key dimensions of Japan’s policy.
43 min
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Minister Dan Jørgensen of Denmark: “Imagine a P...
Dan Jørgensen reflects on a busy week of spring meetings at the World Bank, the importance of considering gender equality in supporting climate adaptation programs, the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance in the context of climate change, and the role the private sector can play in helping to advance climate mitigation and adaptation projects.
31 min
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Prof. Victor Cha: Unpacking North Korea’s isola...
We sit down again with Victor Cha for an update on what we know, suspect, and do not know about a North Korea still in extreme isolation from the rest of the world; the status of its Covid outbreak and response; the heightened risk of famine; and the burgeoning exchange of North Korean weapons and ammunition in return for Russian food and energy.
29 min
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Professor Jennifer Nuzzo: “I am glad we are hav...
Professor Jennifer Nuzzo reflects on the recent March 28 hearing that the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic staged on school closures.
35 min
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Admiral Raquel Bono (ret.): At the pandemic’s f...
Dr. Raquel Bono, a recently retired, highly accomplished 3-star Admiral as 2020 opened, unexpectedly found herself advising Washington State Governor Inslee at the very advent of the pandemic. What did she experience and learn over the next six and a half months?
43 min
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT: “You cannot keep a r...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the iconic health policy/politics reporter at the New York Times, helps us inaugurate The CommonHealth podcast, companion to the newly launched CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security.
34 min
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Goodbye, Coronavirus Crisis Update. Hello, The ...
Welcome to The CommonHealth, the podcast of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security.
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Sam Radwan, Enhance International “Is this the...
Sam Radwan has worked on health developments inside China for two decades. He shares his insights and raises some difficult questions.
28 min
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Dr. Michael Osterholm, CIDRAP, Univ. Minnesota:...
In this newest episode in our series on China, Mike Osterholm reflects.
31 min
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Dr. Scott Rivkees, former Florida Secretary of ...
Dr. Scott Rivkees served under Governor DeSantis as Florida’s Surgeon General and Secretary of Health for 27 months during the pandemic, in what became a rocky political experience. Behind the scenes, what was he able to achieve, in serving Florida’s 67 counties, and in particular, in protecting seniors, managing schools, setting early vaccine priorities?
25 min
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Dr. Chris Murray, IHME, "…we are in for a harde...
As part of our series on China post-COVID-19, Chris Murray reflects on where things stand, almost two months after President Xi threw off Zero-Covid controls.
22 min
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Dr. Scott Kennedy, CSIS -- “Give us our lives b...
In our continued series on China post-Zero Covid, Dr. Scott Kennedy recounts the revelations from his six weeks in Beijing and Shanghai in late 2022, and reflects on what has transpired – societally, politically, medically -- since President Xi suddenly threw off the Zero-Covid controls in early December.
30 min