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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Dr. Andriy Klepikov, Alliance for Public Health...
Dr. Andriy Klepikov, the founder and executive director of the Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine), reflects on the Alliance's remarkable evolution over the past 25 years into a major Ukrainian—and regional—non-governmental force in HIV, TB, and harm reduction programs.
40 min
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Dr. Heidi Larson, LSHTM: “People are struggling...
Dr. Heidi Larson, expert on vaccine confidence at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and CSIS Senior Associate, speaks on the external world’s reaction to the changes in the U.S. in vaccine policy, the scientific R&D biomedical enterprise, and public health.
20 min
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The CommonHealth Live! on Financing Global Heal...
In this episode of The CommonHealth Live!, Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Stephanie Psaki, CSIS Global Health Policy Center Senior Adviser, will discuss IHME’s new report on Financing Global Health.
51 min
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Dr. Ken Staley, Palantir: “We have a lot of coo...
Dr. Ken Staley, Palantir, has served in health security positions in the George W. Bush and first Trump administrations, with time in-between in private sector biopharma.
40 min
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Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, FIND (Foundation for Innov...
Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa is a pediatrician and tuberculosis expert who led the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control during the Covid-19 pandemic.
35 min
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Michael Osterholm, Univ. Minnesota CIDRAP: the ...
Michael Osterholm, on July 21, spoke with us on the Vaccine Integrity Project that he is spearheading in response to vaccine-related actions taken by the second Trump administration.
37 min
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Richard Hatchett, CEPI: “Access does not just h...
Beth Cameron, Senior Advisor and Professor of the Practice at the Brown University Pandemic Center and a Senior Adviser and non-resident fellow at CSIS, hosts this inspiring conversation with Richard Hatchett, the CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
47 min
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Joe Grogan: “The societal divisions that Covid ...
Joe Grogan, former senior official of the George W. Bush and the first Trump administrations, operates an active consultancy, hosts a podcast, writes commentaries for USC Schaeffer Center, and is an active member of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security.
44 min
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Fabrizio Carboni, International Committee of th...
Fabrizio Carboni, head of the ICRC delegation to the US and Canada, speaks to his vast experience in the wars of the past two decades, including the profound impact of 9/11 in integrating humanitarian action into battlefield strategies.
54 min
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Takeaways from Gavi Replenishment | The CommonH...
In this episode of The CommonHealth Live!, Katherine E. Bliss and J. Stephen Morrison discuss the outcomes of the Health and Prosperity through Immunization Global Summit, co-hosted in Brussels by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the European Union and the Gates Foundation.
36 min
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT health policy correspo...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT, delves into what direction HHS Secretary Kennedy is taking US policy.
45 min
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Helen Branswell, Stat News infectious diseases ...
For Helen Branswell, the celebrated Stat News reporter, the SARS outbreak of 2003, while she was based in Toronto, was a thunderclap moment.
37 min
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Dr. Kate O’Brien, WHO: “The success of vaccines...
In this episode, Dr. Kate O’Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals at the World Health Organization (WHO) shares her perspective on the state of global immunization programs halfway through Immunization Agenda 2030, among other topics.
28 min
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Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO: “We would welcome ...
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, Acting Director, WHO Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Management, reveals her early, personal passions as a student of epidemiology.
32 min
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Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, former FDA Commis...
Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, former FDA Commissioner, describes the profound impact the HIV epidemic has had on her personally and in terms of her career choices.
42 min
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Dr. Jennifer Kates, KFF: “Congress is fed up wi...
Dr. Jennifer Kates, SVP and Director, Global Health and HIV Policy Program, KFF, provides a tour d’horizon of how global health and health security look at day #98 of the Trump revolution.
33 min
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Measles Outbreaks in 2025 with Dr. Adam Ratner ...
In the twelfth episode of The CommonHealth Live!, Katherine E. Bliss talks with Dr. Adam Ratner, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Ephrem T. Lemango, Associate Director of Immunization at UNICEF.
53 min
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CommonHealth Live! with Republic of Indonesia M...
In the eleventh episode of The CommonHealth Live! Katherine E. Bliss talks with the Republic of Indonesia’s Minister of Health, H.E. Budi Gunadi Sadikin.
45 min
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Dr. Stephanie Psaki, former Assistant to the Pr...
Dr. Stephanie Psaki—a newly minted CSIS Senior Adviser—shares the story of her personal evolution as a scholar, NGO policy data expert, senior political appointee at the HHS Office of Global Affairs and the White House National Security Council, and now faculty at Brown University School of Public Health.
51 min
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Maj. Gen. Paul Friedrichs (ret.): “I cannot rec...
In this conversation, Major General Paul Friedrichs (ret.), the inaugural director of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, reviews the multiple changes in health security now unfolding in the first 100 days of the second Trump term.
45 min
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Dr. Tom Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives: “We are...
Dr. Tom Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives (CDC Director 2009-2017,) details the dangerous implications of deep changes underway at CDC—on tobacco, environmental toxins, and communications.
28 min
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Tom Bollyky, CFR: China will not fill the gap “...
Tom Bollyky, CFR, walks us through his recent incisive work on two fronts. First, will China supplant US leadership in global health in the wake of the U.S. retreat? Listen to learn why the answer is a definitive "No!" and the dangers that foretells. Second, what might the U.S. exit mean for Latin America?
37 min
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Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, Your Local Epidemiologist...
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina joins us at the fifth anniversary of the newsletter she has spearheaded,Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE). “An incredibly wild ride,” YLE reaches 370,000 subscribers, while social media accounts reach 700,000.
29 min
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Dr. Jeffrey Gold, President, University of Nebr...
Dr. Jeffrey Gold, President of the University of Nebraska system, testified recently before the House Committee on Veteran Affairs Health Subcommittee on plans to replace a 1950 VA hospital with a hospital on the university grounds, with projected savings of half a billion dollars.
27 min
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Carmen Paun, Politico “It’s been astonishing to...
Politico’s global health correspondent Carmen Paun offers her insights into the White House decision on March 13 to withdraw the nomination of David Weldon to be the next Director of CDC.
39 min