Behind the scenes of the pandemic agreement
In May 2025, the world adopted a landmark agreement to prepare for future pandemics. It was the product of 3 years of negotiation across dee...
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Global Health Matters
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Encore - Dialogues: A conversation with Daisy Hernández
Dialogues is a series from the Global Health Matters podcast that includes interviews with some of the world’s sharpest global health minds...
Leading to zero
In global health, control means keeping a disease in check and accepting that some cases will remain. Zero is a different proposition altoge...
GHM & HSG Guiding Research Special Series | Responsible AI for Stronger Health Systems
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming health systems, creating new opportunities to improve disease surveillance, diagnostics and...
Encore - Risking lives to save lives
The Safeguarding Health in Conflict coalition recently published a report that documented 232 health workers killed, more than 700 incidents...
Beyond the red ribbon: the new realities of AIDS
Across more than four decades, HIV has driven some of the most remarkable scientific progress — and most powerful activism — that global hea...
Encore - Decolonization, localization, and WHO: History Matters Part 1
In this episode we explore the multifaceted history of global health and how the narratives borne out of colonization, geopolitical events,...
Trailblazers with Garry: uma conversa com Marcus Lacerda
Neste episódio, Garry se sentou para uma segunda conversa em português com Marcus Lacerda na sede da OMS, em Genebra. Marcus assumiu a direç...
The Inside Track: Lemons, 3G and Dreams
Can global health serve an increasingly fragmented world? That’s the question Garry Aslanyan asks co-hosts Catherine Kyobutungi and Ricardo...
Trailblazers with Garry: a conversation with Marcus Lacerda
"Trailblazers with Garry" is a series from Global Health Matters, where host Garry Aslanyan sits down with trailblazers — thinkers, leaders,...
Dialogues: a conversation with Amani Ballour on conflict, courage and accountability
In this episode of Dialogues, we learn how courage can turn a hospital basement into a symbol of defiance. Host Garry Aslanyan is joined by...
Encore - Science and diplomacy for global health
How can scientists and diplomats work together to advance the global health agenda? Ilona Kickbusch, who founded the Global Health Centre at...
The Inside Track: Oxygen, a mixed bag and the woods
Host Garry Aslanyan poses the question at the heart of the latest Inside Track conversation: in 2026, after everything COVID-19 taught us, a...
Is it the end of the NGO as we know it?
For decades, international NGOs have been central pillars of global health and humanitarian response efforts. But with aid budgets shrinking...
The Inside Track: the pope, the Force and the hope
The Inside Track is a new series from Global Health Matters offering context, clarity and foresight that you won’t find in traditional news...
Encore - The health journey of refugees and migrants is global health
Global Health Matters is the monthly podcast from TDR, if you like our content then please subscribe. We embrace the fact that public health...
Dialogues: a conversation with Laura Spinney on disease, linguistics and humanity
Dialogues is a series from the Global Health Matters podcast where we bring you interviews featuring fresh perspectives on global health iss...
The Inside Track: Broken chairs, horses and audiences
In our first episode of The Inside Track , we examine the fragile state of information integrity in global health. Host Garry Aslanyan and r...
Trailblazers with Garry: a conversation with Ntobeko Ntusi
“Trailblazers with Garry" is a series from Global Health Matters, where host Garry Aslanyan sits down with trailblazers — thinkers, leaders...
Rethinking how we fund health
Across the global health landscape, governments are facing mounting debt, development assistance is under pressure and the gap between ambit...