Priya Basu, the Pandemic Fund: "Countries are not sitting on the fence. They are lining up."
Priya Basu, head of the Pandemic Fund (est. 2022, based at the World Bank), reflects on the Fund's origin and evolution. "It exists to solve...
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Take as Directed
Take as Directed is the podcast series of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center. It highlights important news, events, issues, and perspectives in global health policy, particularly in infect...
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20 of 345 episodesA Conversation with Dr. Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance | The Futures Summit
Gavi CEO Sania Nishtar sat down with Katherine E. Bliss, Director and Senior Fellow, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, to discuss...
The Lenacapavir Partnership and the Evolution of U.S. Foreign Assistance | The Futures Summit
In September 2025, the U.S. Department of State, Gilead Sciences, and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced a no...
Dr. Eli Cahan: “Human beings are wired for stories.”
Dr. Eli Cahan explains how he evolved into both a neonatologist and an accomplished, intrepid journalist, inspired by the likes of Atul Gawa...
Dr. Benjamin Park, CDC: speed is of utmost importance
Dr. Benjamin Park is Director of the CDC Division of Global Health Protection that protects Americans against dangerous outbreaks by strengt...
Expanding Access to Immunizations in the Americas | The CommonHealth Live!
During this year’s Vaccination Week in the Americas, which runs from April 25 to May 2, countries across the hemisphere will celebrate the l...
Dan Diamond, Washington Post: “A big hole that no one knows how to fill.”
Dan Diamond, Washington Post reporter on the White House and health care, shares his reflections on President Trump’s swirling passions to r...
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times: Reflections on HHS Secretary RFK Jr’s tenure
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, offers her reflections on HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s tenure over the past fifteen months. His...
The Resurgence of Measles in the United States | CommonHealth Live!
Since January 2025, the United States has confirmed more than 3,000 cases of measles across multiple states - with South Carolina reporting...
Emily Gibbons, Gilead Sciences: the lenacapavir partnership
Gilead Sciences, the Trump administration, and the Global Fund have joined in partnership to bring lenacapavir, the new twice-yearly injecta...
Book Event: Deployed by Kevin De Cock
This episode of The CommonHealth features a discussion of the recently published book, Deployed: A Physician on the Front Lines of Global He...
Andi L. Fristedt, Parkinson’s Foundation: “The data (on paraquat) is clear.”
Andi L. Fristedt, former senior official at CDC, FDA and the Senate HELP Committee, heads up a newly established Washington, D.C. office of...
Keith Poulsen, Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory: “Emergency response is hard.”
Keith Poulsen, professor at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, provides an update o...
Measles Outbreaks and Elimination in North America | The CommonHealth Live!
Over the past year, outbreaks of measles, a highly transmissible virus, have affected thousands of unvaccinated people across Canada, Mexico...
Jane Halton: the launch of CEPI 3.0
Jane Halton, chair of CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, walks us through CEPI's evolution since its founding in ear...
John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust: “The system has changed—and changed forever.”
John-Arne Røttingen, CEO of Wellcome Trust, is a Norwegian leader whose expertise has a remarkable span, encompassing medicine, science, res...
Keith Humphreys, Stanford University: China’s supply shock of fentanyl and chemical precursors
Keith Humphreys, a leading expert on addiction psychiatry, based at Stanford University, unpacks his January article in Science examining th...
Amb. (ret) Karl Hofmann, Health X Partners: “Not everyone curtails their job in Paris.”
Amb. (ret) Karl Hofmann is CEO of the recently launched Health X Partners (HXP), a parent company under which Population Services Internatio...
Dr. Chris Murray, IHME: The “Commission of Commissions.”
Dr. Chris Murray, IHME, co-chairs the Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health, which will launch its report in February a...
Prevention Intention: Wafaa El-Sadr on People and Persistence in HIV Research
In the second episode of the Prevention Intention mini-series, Katherine speaks with Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor in Epidemiology at...