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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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
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Dr. Celine Gounder, KFF Health News: "Silence w...
Dr. Celine Gounder, Editor-at-Large, KFF Health News, explains how the U.S. vaccine enterprise could be damaged so swiftly by the Trump administration, with so little apparent resistance.
32 min
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CommonHealth Live! with PAHO’s Dr. Jarbas Barbosa
In the fifteenth episode of the Common Health Live!, Katherine E. Bliss talks with Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).
45 min
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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