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How do we work together to stop disease outbreaks and save lives worldwide? An Interview with someone who’s living it day to day
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Seema Yasmin and Dr Shelly Batra talk about how we fight diseases as activists and overcoming social and economic challenges using her own experien...
How do you talk to people who disagree with you about Science? We talk to the man who wrote the book on it.
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With the current worldwide political landscape at the forefront of our minds, continued misinformation and divisive rhetoric. We talk to Lee McIntyre ...
Now Try... When Science Finds a Way
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks for listening to Our Big Shot. We have some exciting new episodes on the way shortly but in the meantime, we thought you'd like to fill your ti...
Our Big Shot - how do we reach 500 million children?
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of this series, we revisit where we are now. The Covid-19 pandemic forced the world to work together, and this was eye-opening in...
Sharing is caring - the politics of combating MPox
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we track the spread of Mpox and ask, how does the pandemic alarm system work? Does the global alarm system work? We have powerful vacc...
Smallpox - the disease that changed science
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Smallpox is a pathogen specific to our species and it has wreaked havoc with human populations over the centuries. Ultimately it gave rise to what w...
HIV - The African Journey
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
African nations have a painful and particular relationship with HIV, they have also been at the forefront of the fight against the disease. In this ep...
The Black Angels - rethinking how we see Tuberculosis
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tuberculosis is often assumed to be a disease of the past, but it kills over 1 million people a year - a higher rate than malaria and HIV combined. ...
Lies are contagious - MMR vaccine and the virality of a conspiracy.
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ‘single shot’ MMR combined vaccine is one of the biggest achievements in childhood infectious disease prevention, directly responsible for s...
Polio and the March of Rubles - why medicine trumps politics
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look at the fight against polio from ‘The March of the Dimes’ - a famous episode in the history of mass immunisation in which o...
The Covid effect on vaccine reality: defending the memory of Grant Wahl
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we confront a new reality for vaccines post Covid. On the one hand, the acceleration of science thanks to mRna derived vaccine design ...
Trailer: Introducing 'Our Big Shot' with Dr Seema Yasmin
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
New Podcast Announcement. Welcome to Our Big Shot with Dr Seema Yasmin, a podcast series dedicated to understanding the power of vaccines, marking key...