Pandemic Planet
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Pandemic Planet
A regular discussion of the global health security challenges facing the world.
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43 episodes
Dr. Jeffrey L. Sturchio: The EHE initiative is worth investing in because “the money is getting results”
Katherine is joined by Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Senior Associate (Non-Resident) with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center and co-author of the new report,...
Dr. Heidi Larson: The importance of incorporating listening into an “epidemic of pandemic preparedness activities”
Dr. Heidi Larson, co-founder of the Global Listening Project and founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene a...
Dr. Jeni Miller: “We do not have the luxury to set aside working on the climate crisis”
In this episode, Katherine is joined by Dr. Jeni Miller, Executive Director of the Global Climate and Health Alliance, to discuss the ways in which a...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – IAVI’s Mark Feinberg: Innovations in Prevention and Novel Partnerships Are Needed to Sustain the HIV Response
In this crossover episode with AIDS' Existential Moment, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 30th, Jeff Stu...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Solange Baptiste: Addressing Structural Barriers to Achieve Equitable Access to HIV Treatment for All
In this crossover episode with AIDS' Existential Moment, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 30th, Jeff Stu...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Sex Work Advocates Phelister Abdalla and Ruth Morgan Thomas: How “sex workers do it better” in advocacy, community-led initiatives, and leadership
In this crossover episode with AIDS’ Existential Moment, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Katherine speaks with Pheliste...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Professor Alan Whiteside: Learning from HIV/AIDS and Covid-19: understanding the role of equity, economics, democracy, and the power of communities
In this crossover episode with AIDS' Existential Moment, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 31st, Jeff Stu...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Former IAS President & International Co-Chair of AIDS 2022 Adeeba Kamarulzaman: “Reengagement” through collaboration and connection
In this crossover episode with AIDS’ Existential Moment, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Katherine speaks with Dr. Adee...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal – Dr. Michel Kazatchkine: HIV/AIDS and the Politics of Health and Human Rights
In this crossover episode with AIDS' Existential Moment, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada, on July 31st, Jeff Stu...
Live from AIDS 2022 in Montreal - UNAIDS’s Eamonn Murphy: "Sounding the Alarm" on the risks to progress in global HIV programs during Covid-19
In this crossover episode with AIDS Existential Moment, recorded during the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Katherine Bliss speaks with Eam...
Ann Keeling: Female healthcare workers need to be seen as “assets and not volunteers”
Katherine is joined by Ann Keeling, Senior Fellow with Women in Global Health and lead author of WGH’s new policy brief, Subsidizing Global Health: Wo...
Ted Chaiban: “Progress is Possible” in Addressing Global Covid-19 Vaccine Inequities
Ted Chaiban, Global Lead Coordinator for UNICEF’s Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP), joins Katherine to discuss the state of Covid-19 vacc...
John-Arne Røttingen: Investing in Pandemic Preparedness to Insure Against Future Threats
In this episode, Katherine speaks with John-Arne Røttingen, Ambassador for Global Health at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway. Whether it’s cont...
Douglas Mercado: “Doing good ain’t easy"
Katherine is joined by Doug Mercado, head of the area office with the World Food Program in Romania, which is managing the delivery and distribution o...
Live From Munich: Dr. Richard Hatchett: “Pandemic Preparedness Needs to Be Viewed as a Security Challenge”
Two years later, Dr. Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations rejoins Steve for the second iteration of our Live F...
Dr. Heidi Larson: "The nature of the security threat has changed"
Dr. Heidi Larson, founder of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Vaccine Confidence Project™ and co-chair of the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level...
Live from Munich: Tom Bollyky: “We can't do this on our own.”
In the fourth episode of our Live From Munich Mini-Series, Steve is joined by Tom Bollyky, the Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Develop...
Live From Munich: Dr. Jeremy Farrar: “We Must Not Be Caught Vulnerable Again”
Two years ago, Dr. Jeremy Farrar joined Steve for the first iteration of Live From Munich, when the Covid-19 Pandemic was just emerging. Today, for th...
Live From Munich: Dr. Seth Berkley: “It is a Security Issue”
In episode #124, the second episode of our Live From Munich mini-series, Steve is joined by Seth Berkely, CEO of Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, “the larg...
Live From Munich: Dr. John Nkengasong: “The Concepts are Global, But the Practice is Local”
Dr. Nkengasong, Director of the Africa CDC and soon to be head of PEPFAR joined us for this 123rd episode, and the first episode of our Live From Muni...
“It’s going to hit the most vulnerable hardest, like everything does.”
In this episode Katherine speaks with Daniela Ligiero, executive director and CEO of Together for Girls, a partnership focused on collecting data to r...
The Global Fund’s Peter Sands on Fighting Multiple Pandemics at the Same Time
In this episode Katherine speaks with Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, about the ways in wh...
COP26 and the Health Impacts of Climate Change
In this episode Keith Martin, executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), talks with Katherine about the outcomes o...
Seth Berkley on COVAX’s Past, Present and Future
In this episode, an edited version of a live event on November 15, Katherine talks with Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, about the fir...
Ambassador Stephanie Williams on Australia’s health security diplomacy during Covid-19
In this episode, Dr. Stephanie Williams, Australia’s ambassador for regional health security, talks with Katherine E. Bliss about the Australian gover...
The Case for Routine Immunizations within Health Emergency Response
During the Covid-19 pandemic, countries around the world have seen coverage levels for routine immunizations drop as resources and health workers have...
Building a Resilient Health System: Costa Rica’s 80 Year Experiment
Román Macaya Hayes, executive president of the Costa Rican Social Security Fund, joined Katherine E. Bliss for a conversation on how Costa Rica has pr...
Trends in Societal Division and Popular Opinion During the Pandemic
In this episode, J. Stephen Morrison speaks with Jacob Poushter, an expert in international survey research at Pew Research Center, about Pew’s recent...
Insuring Quality Vaccines During a Global Pandemic
In this episode, Katherine E. Bliss is joined by Ben Hubbard, co-founder, and CEO of Parsyl Inc. As the global race to access Covid-19 vaccines heats...
Covid-19 in Fragile & Conflict-Affected Areas: A Dynamic Problem
In this episode, Katherine E. Bliss is joined by two CSIS colleagues, Jacob Kurtzer, director and senior fellow with the Humanitarian Agenda, and Erol...
Ken Staley on the “Best Job in Global Health”
In this episode, Katherine E. Bliss is joined by Ken Staley, Senior Associate with CSIS and the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator under President Donald...
Richard Hatchett on CEPI in the Covid-19 Era
Julie Gerberding, co-chair of the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security and Executive VP, Merck, Inc, joined me at CSIS for a liv...
Dame Sally Davies on the Silent Pandemic of Antimicrobial Resistance
This week, CSIS co-hosted the 9th annual Atlanta Global Health Summit with the World Affairs Council of Atlanta, CARE USA, and The Carter Center. J. S...
Improving Health Equity in the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed significant health disparities in the U.S. In this episode, Julie Morita, Executive Vice President of the Robert Wo...
A Race Between Vaccines, Variants, and the Virus
In this episode, Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija, co-chair of the African Union’s Vaccine Delivery Alliance, joins us to discuss the rollout of Covid-19 va...
Solidarity and Nationalism in Europe’s Covid-19 Experience
Shortly after the February meeting of G7 leaders and virtual Munich Security Conference, Heather Conley, senior vice president at CSIS and director of...
Bruce Gellin: Keeping a Focus on Routine Immunizations While Responding to Covid-19
Looking ahead to World Immunization Week, 2021, Bruce Gellin, President of Global Immunizations at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, joins us to discuss th...
Intersecting Pandemics: Adrian Thomas of J&J on Tuberculosis (TB) & Covid-19
To mark World TB Day, Katherine E. Bliss and J. Stephen Morrison speak with Adrian Thomas, TB expert and leader of global strategy at Johnson & Johnso...
John Nkengasong of Africa CDC On Learning From the Pandemics of the Past
In this episode, Katherine E. Bliss and J. Stephen Morrison speak with Dr. John Nkengasong, Director of the Africa CDC. The African continent has not...
John-Arne Røttingen: On the Front Lines of Pandemic Diplomacy
This month we were joined by Norway’s Ambassador for global health John-Arne Rottingen on his ‘virtual visit’ to Washington D.C. As co-chair of the AC...