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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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Rep. Peter Welch on ...
Steve sat with Rep. Peter Welch to discuss how Vermont became such a dramatic outlier, in its quick and effective control of the coronavirus, and the actions taken to preserve those gains.
34 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Beth Cameron, “Nothi...
Dr. Beth Cameron, Vice President at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, talks through what the accelerating race for vaccines for Covid-19 means.
36 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Marc Daalder from Au...
Steve Morrison asks Marc Daalder: how and why did New Zealand succeed in locking down the country, winning public support, and eliminating the virus?
33 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Anthony Fauci on...
J. Stephen Morrison sits down with Dr. Anthony Fauci to discuss various issues that America is facing as its runaway crisis continues to unfold.
29 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: David Sanger, NYT, H...
Andrew and Steve gathered with David Sanger to discuss the NYT's recent investigative team’s efforts, which chronicled the momentous White House decisions taken in early April to step back and push lead responsibility on to the states.
33 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Peter Hotez on A...
How did Texas and many other wildfire states run so out of control? Dr. Peter Hotez joins us from Houston.
31 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-...
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), a renowned leader in Congress on racial justice and global health, discusses her proposed Commission on Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, the awakening across America, this historic moment for elected Black women leaders, and this week’s virtual ‘AIDS 2020’ International AIDS Conference.
32 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Frances Stead Seller...
In this episode, Steve and Andrew invite Frances Stead Sellers (Washington Post) to discuss what makes America what it is, in these days of a pandemic, economic pain and racial injustice.
26 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Senator Patty Murray...
In this episode, Steve and Andrew speak with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) on the most pressing health issues before America.
15 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Julie Gerberding on ...
In this episode, the hosts are joined by Julie Gerberding (Merck) to discuss her Senate hearing testimonies on the hard lessons of the past months of the coronavirus pandemic in America and what needs to happen right now.
29 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Sheryl Gay Stolberg ...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg discusses the controversy around hydroxychloroquine, a saga that starkly revealed the collision between science and politics in the midst of the pandemic.
24 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Renee DiResta on Pse...
Renee DiResta, a prominent expert who studies malign narratives across social networks, dives into some provocative questions on the different conspiracies surrounding Covid-19.
33 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Haiti's "Perfect Storm"
Steve speaks with Dr. Jean William Pape, a renowned public health professor and practitioner appointed in late April by Haitian President Moïse to co-chair the country’s Covid-19 response commission.
35 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: South Africa’s Diffi...
We speak with Professor Salim Abdool Karim (Slim), a preeminent HIV scientist based in Durban to discuss South Africa’s successes and achievements, the acute vulnerabilities of those living with HIV and TB, tough controversies, major constraints, and mistakes that required correction.
31 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: A Covid-19 Survivor’...
Eustace and Carol Theodore describe the uncertain, extended process in discovering Eustace had been infected with Covid-19, after vacationing in England in the first half of March.
26 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Advice for Us All Fr...
In this episode, we are joined by Julien, a wonderfully insightful 13-year-old from Berkeley, California, to talk about his experience of over two months of shelter-in-place.
16 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Sen. Chris Van Holle...
In this episode, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland joins us to talk about what Congress can do to respond to Covid-19 right now, including ensuring access and affordability for new treatments and a vaccine, and building stimulus packages for every level of government.
27 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: John Barry, Eminent ...
Tulane University professor and historian John Barry, author of the New York Times bestseller "The Great Influenza," discusses the lessons gleaned from the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic that speak to today’s coronavirus pandemic sweeping America and the world.
28 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Can Africa CDC Stem ...
We are joined by Director of the Africa CDC Dr. John Nkengasong and U.S. Ambassador to the African Union Jessica Lapenn. Africa CDC is advancing a continental plan to address the dire, burgeoning threat Covid-19 poses to Africa.
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: CSIS Alum Alisha Kra...
In this episode, we bring in CSIS alum Alisha Kramer, who is now practicing obstetrics and gynecology in Atlanta hospitals, to discuss how she assists young pregnant women in navigating the new realities of Covid-19.
24 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Reviewing the World ...
In this episode, the conversation takes off from a recent piece published by Steve and Anna Carroll, Global Health Policy Center’s Associate Fellow, that examines President Trump’s decision to suspend U.S. assistance to the World Health Organization.
22 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Scott Dowell of the ...
In this episode, the hosts are joined by Scott Dowell, coronavirus response leader at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to discuss how successful the global response has been in saving so many lives, as well as Dr. Dowell's thoughts on which response strategy is best.
23 min
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Immunization and Universal Health Coverage: A L...
As this week marks World Immunization Week, Senior Fellow Katherine Bliss talks to two immunization experts, Angela Shen and Lora Shimp, about the difference between universal health care and coverage, and how including immunizations under a larger package of preventative services means more people benefit for a cheaper cost.
22 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Congressman Ami Bera...
In this episode, Steve and Andrew are joined by Congressman Ami Bera (D-CA07) to talk about his work on the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security and his impressions of Covid-19, as both a doctor and an elected representative.
22 min
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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Former Senator Kelly...
Former Senator Kelly Ayotte, co-chair of the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, joins Steve and Andrew in explaining how the Commission’s November 2019 core recommendations remain compelling and essential in the midst of the pandemic, if we are to, once and for all, break the cycle of crisis and complacency.
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