The CommonHealth

Emily Gibbons, Gilead Sciences: the lenacapavir partnership

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Gilead Sciences, the Trump administration, and the Global Fund have joined in partnership to bring lenacapavir, the new twice-yearly injectable preven...

The Resurgence of Measles in the United States | CommonHealth Live!

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Since January 2025, the United States has confirmed more than 3,000 cases of measles across multiple states - with South Carolina reporting nearly 100...

Book Event: Deployed by Kevin De Cock

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of The CommonHealth features a discussion of the recently published book, Deployed: A Physician on the Front Lines of Global Health, by K...

Andi L. Fristedt, Parkinson’s Foundation: “The data (on paraquat) is clear.”

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Andi L. Fristedt, former senior official at CDC, FDA and the Senate HELP Committee, heads up a newly established Washington, D.C. office of the Parkin...

Keith Poulsen, Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory: “Emergency response is hard.”

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Keith Poulsen, professor at the University of Wisconsin and director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, provides an update on the stat...

Measles Outbreaks and Elimination in North America | The CommonHealth Live!

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Over the past year, outbreaks of measles, a highly transmissible virus, have affected thousands of unvaccinated people across Canada, Mexico and the U...

Jane Halton: the launch of CEPI 3.0

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Halton, chair of CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, walks us through CEPI's evolution since its founding in early 2017, a...

John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust: “The system has changed—and changed forever.”

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

John-Arne Røttingen, CEO of Wellcome Trust, is a Norwegian leader whose expertise has a remarkable span, encompassing medicine, science, research, cl...

Keith Humphreys, Stanford University: China’s supply shock of fentanyl and chemical precursors

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Keith Humphreys, a leading expert on addiction psychiatry, based at Stanford University, unpacks his January article in Science examining the steep ...

Amb. (ret) Karl Hofmann, Health X Partners: “Not everyone curtails their job in Paris.”

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Amb. (ret) Karl Hofmann is CEO of the recently launched Health X Partners (HXP), a parent company under which Population Services International (PSI) ...

Dr. Chris Murray, IHME: The “Commission of Commissions.”

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Chris Murray, IHME, co-chairs the Lancet Commission on 21st Century Global Threats to Health, which will launch its report in February at the Mun...

Prevention Intention: Wafaa El-Sadr on People and Persistence in HIV Research

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the second episode of the Prevention Intention mini-series, Katherine speaks with Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor in Epidemiology at Columbia U...

Prevention Intention: Linda-Gail Bekker on HIV Prevention with Purpose

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first episode of the Prevention Intention mini-series, a series featuring conversations with leading female HIV clinical researchers, Katheri...

Erika Elvander, former U.S. Health Attache in Beijing: “It behooves us to find the common ground.”

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Erika Elvander served her country as a federal career health diplomat for 27 years, including as the U.S. Health Attache in Beijing from the spring 20...

Marian Wentworth, MSH: "I have been working since I was 13."

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Marian Wentworth, President & CEO, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), at age 13 started working in a local factory. Attended the famous Latin Schoo...

Rep. Adam Smith on Engaging China

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security discussion with Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), Ranking Member of the House Armed Se...

Dr. Rick Brennan: “This is not good for the American soul.”

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Rick Brennan, an acclaimed Australian humanitarian leader who led WHO and NGO crisis response in multiple conflicts over several decades, walks us...

Fair Doses: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Glo...

Keizo Takemi, recent Japan Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare: "I am quite lucky."

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Keizo Takemi, recent Japan Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (September 2023-October 2024), shares his personal story that took him to Taiwan, C...

Dr. Debra Houry, former Chief Medical Officer and Dep. Director, CDC: “He’s becoming dangerous to the health of our nation.”

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Peter Piot, LSHTM: “A brilliant coalition” essential to success

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The renowned global health leader, Peter Piot, LSHTM, opens this conversation with reflections on what drove the historic global health successes, inc...

The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security book launch of The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics. As bad...

Dr. Celine Gounder, KFF Health News: "Silence was paralysis"

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

CommonHealth Live! with PAHO’s Dr. Jarbas Barbosa

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the fifteenth episode of the Common Health Live!, Katherine E. Bliss talks with Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organizatio...

Dr. Andriy Klepikov, Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine):  "We are still standing." 

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Andriy Klepikov, the founder and executive director of the Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine), reflects on the Alliance's remarkable evolution o...

Dr. Heidi Larson, LSHTM: “People are struggling to make sense of it.”

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Heidi Larson, the acclaimed expert on vaccine confidence at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – and CSIS Senior Associate – s...

The CommonHealth Live! on Financing Global Health in 2025

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The CommonHealth Live!, Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Stephan...

Dr. Ken Staley, Palantir: “We have a lot of cool stuff on the horizon.”

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Ken Staley, Palantir, has served in health security positions in the George W. Bush and first Trump administrations, with time in-between in priva...

Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics): “What we are lacking is the investments to move the needle.”

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa is a pediatrician and tuberculosis expert who led the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control during the Covid-19 pandemic. A year ago...

Michael Osterholm, Univ. Minnesota CIDRAP: the Vaccine Integrity Project

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Richard Hatchett, CEPI: “Access does not just happen.”

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Beth Cameron, Senior Advisor and Professor of the Practice at the Brown University Pandemic Center and a Senior Adviser and non-resident fellow ...

Joe Grogan: “The societal divisions that Covid opened were terrifying.”

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Grogan, former senior official of the George W. Bush administration and the first Trump administration, operates an active consultancy, hosts a po...

Fabrizio Carboni, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): "I had to face what it meant to be on a battlefield."

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Takeaways from Gavi Replenishment | The CommonHealth Live!

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the thirteenth episode of The CommonHealth Live!, Katherine E. Bliss and J. Stephen Morrison discuss the outcomes of the June 25 Health and Prosper...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT health policy correspondent: HHS Secretary Kennedy may run for President in 2028

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT, delves into what direction HHS Secretary Kennedy is taking US policy. He operates along two divergent strands – vaccines a...

Helen Branswell, Stat News infectious diseases and global health reporter: “Is the solution making it harder for individuals to get vaccines?”

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For Helen Branswell, the celebrated Stat News reporter, the SARS outbreak of 2003, while she was based in Toronto, was a thunderclap moment. Jump for...

Dr. Kate O’Brien, WHO: “The success of vaccines is that, basically, nothing happens.”

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Dr. Kate O’Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines, and Biologicals at the World Health Organization (WHO) shar...

Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO: “We would welcome a dialogue with the (Trump) administration.”

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“I studied hard. Hated the lab, loved the field.”  Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, Acting Director, WHO Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Threat Manage...

Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, former FDA Commissioner: “I hope we can come together around shared goals.”

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, former FDA Commissioner, describes the profound impact the HIV epidemic has had on her personally and in terms of her ca...

Dr. Jennifer Kates, KFF: “Congress is fed up with blank check forever.”

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Measles Outbreaks in 2025 with Dr. Adam Ratner and Dr. Ephrem T. Lemango | The CommonHealth Live!

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the twelfth episode of The CommonHealth Live! which falls during World Immunization Week, Katherine E. Bliss talks with Dr. Adam Ratner, a member o...

CommonHealth Live! with Republic of Indonesia Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Sad...

Dr. Stephanie Psaki, former Assistant to the President and White House Global Health Security Coordinator: “We are wandering in the desert.”

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Stephanie Psaki—a newly minted CSIS Senior Adviser—shares the story of her personal evolution as a scholar, NGO policy data expert, senior pol...

Maj. Gen. Paul Friedrichs (ret.): “I cannot recall anything similar to this.”

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Major General Paul Friedrichs (ret.), the inaugural director of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR), is now a S...

Dr. Tom Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives: “We are now flying blind.”

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Tom Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives (CDC Director 2009-2017,) details the dangerous implications of deep changes underway at CDC—on tobacco, envi...

Tom Bollyky, CFR: China will not fill the gap “as the dominant actor in global health security exits the stage.”

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Bollyky, CFR, walks us through his recent incisive work on two fronts. First, will China supplant US leadership in global health in the wake of th...

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, Your Local Epidemiologist: Death threats and thick skin are “part of this gig.”

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina joins us at the fifth anniversary of the newsletter she has spearheaded,Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE). “An incredibly wild ri...

Dr. Jeffrey Gold, President, University of Nebraska system: lately it’s been “a day-by-day, week-by-week course adjustment.”

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jeffrey Gold, President of the University of Nebraska system, testified recently before the House Committee on Veteran Affairs Health Subcommittee...

Carmen Paun, Politico “It’s been astonishing to watch” USAID dismantled

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Politico’s global health correspondent Carmen Paun offers her insights into the White House decision on March 13 to withdraw the nomination of David...

Measles Outbreak Implications

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a special crossover episode with CSIS's The Truth of the Matter, Andrew Schwartz and Steve discuss the recent measles outbreak and risks associated...

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron: “It has been a blizzard... It’s a staggering reality”

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron, Professor, Brown University, and former senior official in global health security and biodefense at the White House and ...

Dr. Vanessa Kerry: "Health is a Cornerstone of Global Security"

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Vanessa Kerry, founder of Seed Global Health, Associate Professor, Harvard School of Medicine, and since June 2023 the WHO Director-General’s Sp...

CommonHealth Live! with Assistant Secretary Loyce Pace

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the eighth episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, J. Stephen Morrison sits down with Loyce Pace, Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the U...

Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley, President of Vassar College: “We’re ready.”

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley, President of Vassar College, shares her thoughts on the fusillade of Executive Orders signed by President Trump directe...

Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times science and global health reporter: RFK Jr. “damned by his own history.”

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Apoorva Mandavilli, the award-winning New York Times science and global health reporter, is on the front lines of several fast-breaking stories. “We...

Dr. Heidi Larson, LSHTM: "Public health cannot rest on its laurels."

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The renowned expert on vaccine confidence, Dr. Heidi Larson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explains why there has been a precipitous...

Director Mandy Cohen: The Future of the CDC

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Since the start of her tenure in July 2023, Dr. Mandy Cohen, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has pursued severa...

CommonHealth Live! with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the tenth episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, Katherine E. Bliss will sit down with Stacy Aguilera-Peterson, Deputy Director for Research, U....

CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Rahul Gupta

07 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the ninth episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, J. Stephen Morrison will sit down with Rahul Gupta, Director of the White House Office of Natio...

Dan Diamond, National Health Reporter, Washington Post: “Everything feels grey to me...”

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Diamond, the national health reporter at the Washington Post, reflects on the shock of both United Health executive Brian Thompson’s tragic murd...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times: "Humility is a word I hear a lot in public health."

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the NYT health correspondent, feels her decades of health and political reporting prepare her well for understanding this remark...

Michael Merson, Professor Emeritus, Duke University: “We need a plan.”

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we explain the peril that global health faces? Covid and the post-Covid backlash. The Biden years’ “status quo” approach. Less support in...

CommonHealth Live! with Dr. John Balbus

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the seventh episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, Katherine E. Bliss will sit down with Dr. John Balbus, Director of the Office of Climate Chan...

CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Hanan Balkhy

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the sixth episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, Katherine E. Bliss will sit down with Dr. Hanan Balkhy, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern M...

Javier Guzman, Center for Global Development: “Yes it was successful, but...”

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Javier Guzman, Center for Global Development debriefs on the High Level Meeting on Anti-Microbial Resistance held in New York City on September 26. Su...

Dr. Michael Osterholm, Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), U. Minnesota: We need “a pretty damn healthy dose of humility.”

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Michael Osterholm unpacks the history of H5N1, as we struggle with the question of whether the current H5N1 outbreak may pose a grave threat of a ...

Nidhi Bouri, Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID Bureau for Global Health: on mpox, anti-microbial resistance, Marburg virus in Rwanda, and money headaches

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nidhi Bouri, DAA at USAID Bureau for Global Health, joined us to speak to the U.S. response to the dangerous mpox outbreak (clade 1b) centered in the ...

Dr. Jerome Adams, 20th U.S. Surgeon General: “I was the first Twitter Surgeon General.”

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jerome Adams authored his 2023 memoire, Crisis and Chaos: Lessons from the Front Lines of the War Against COVID-19. In it, he reflects on his upb...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD: ‘On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service’

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Anthony Fauci sat down with J. Stephen Morrison, CSIS, on August 13, for a conversation on his remarkable 54 year career of service as a doctor an...

Dr. Megan Ranney, Dean, Yale School of Public Health: We have the public health tools to tackle America’s epidemic of firearm injuries and deaths.

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Megan Ranney, the dynamic, charismatic Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, joined us to illuminate the strategy she has pioneered to curb fi...

The Private Sector, Civic Space, and Global Health Advocacy on the Eve of AIDS 2024

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the International AIDS Society’s 25th global conference taking place next week in Munich, Mark Lagon, Chief Policy Officer at Friends of the G...

Len Rubenstein, Johns Hopkins University: “The policy is hand-wringing… Total impunity.”

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Leonard Rubenstein is Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, non-resident Fellow at CSIS, and Chair of the Safeguarding Health ...

Dr. Raj Panjabi: we need “biological humility”

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Raj Panjabi, former NSC Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense, shares his personal story, his deep ties to Liberia, the genesi...

Dr. Angela Apeagyei & Dr. Chris Murray, IHME: “Real risks on the horizon” for global health

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is the lively conversation J. Stephen Morrison had the pleasure to hold with Dr. Angela Apeagyei and Dr. Chris Murray, IHME at CSIS on Ma...

French Ambassador for Global Health Anne-Claire Amprou: A Big Historical Moment

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

France’s dynamic Ambassador for Global Health, Anne-Claire Amprou, visited CSIS for an extended conversation on the topline historical challenges th...

Jennifer Kates, KFF: “Not a great time to be asking for lots of money… everything has changed.”

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The inimitable Jennifer Kates, KFF, joins us to make sense of the multiple, convergent, competitive replenishments of the most significant instruments...

CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Sandro Galea

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the fifth episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, J. Stephen Morrison speaks with Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston Uni...

Noam Unger, CSIS: The urgency of health adaptation? “It’s self-evident but requires massive changes.”

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In our ongoing series on climate and health, we had the great fortune to enlist a friend and colleague, Noam Unger, Director of the CSIS Sustainable D...

Dr. Andrés G. (Willy) Lescano, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia: "A Perfect Storm Scenario"

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Since the start of 2024, several countries in South America have experienced a rapid increase in cases of dengue, a viral disease transmitted by the ...

The CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Vanessa Kerry and Minister Austin Demby

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the fourth episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, Vanessa Kerry, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Special Envoy for Climate Cha...

Donald G. McNeil, The Wisdom of Plagues

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Donald G. McNeil, the prize-winning science and health reporter—45 years with the New York Times—unpacks his newly published memoir, The Wisdom of...

The CommonHealth Live! WHO Senior Advisor Dr. Scott Dowell on the Global Health Emergency Corps

13 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the third episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, World Health Organization (WHO) Senior Advisor Dr. Scott Dowell joins J. Stephen Morrison for a...

Dr. Sandro Galea, Boston University SPH, ‘Within Reason’

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean of the BU School of Public Health, discusses his incisive, provocative new book, ‘Within Reason.’ Its central proposition: ...

Dr. Joseph Majkut, Director, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change: COP28 is “a punctuation mark.”

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joseph Majkut, Director of the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program, unpacks the big picture of COP28 (Dubai, Nov. 30-Dec 13, 2023), both t...

The CommonHealth Live! IRC President David Miliband: A New Crisis Landscape

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the second episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, J. Stephen Morrison speaks with International Rescue Committee (IRC) President and CEO David M...

Dr. Yanzhong Huang: the need for a US-China détente on global health

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Yanzhong Huang, Council on Foreign Relations and Seton Hall University, argues in the CFR report Negotiating Global Health Security (co-authored...

Senator Thomas Daschle: the decline of U.S. vaccination levels is a national security threat

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

On the occasion of National Influenza Vaccination Week, former Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle, chair of the Coalition to Stop Flu, joins us to ...

The CommonHealth Live! Ambassador John Nkengasong: World AIDS Day 2023: A Journey of Hope

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode recorded in advance of World AIDS Day 2023, Katherine speaks with Ambassador John Nkengasong, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Senior ...

Heidi Larson, Chair and Co-Founder of the Global Listening Project: “The people part of the Covid experience was our Achilles heel”

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Heidi Larson, Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, speaks with...

Jenelle Krishnamoorthy, Vice President and Head of Global Public Policy, Corporate Affairs, Merck & Co.: “Driving Meaningful and Sustained Progress on AMR

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Merck’s Jenelle Krishnamoorthy, a member of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security, joins Katherine to discuss the ...

Dr. Dylan George, Director, CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA): “We are really looking at the past, when we look up at the sky.”

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Dylan George, Director of the CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA), walks us through the CFA’s status, almost two years after...

Dr. Suerie Moon, Geneva Graduate Institute: “Treaties will not solve every problem.”

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Suerie Moon, Co-Director of the Global Health Center and Professor of Practice, International Relations and Political Science, walks us through th...

Leonard Rubenstein, JHU: recent conversations in Kyiv

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Len Rubenstein shares his trenchant, mixed reflections from a September visit to Ukraine, specifically the multiple burdens that the war imposes on Uk...

Dr. Eric Goosby: The M72 vaccine could be a breakthrough. “It is a moment.”

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Eric Goosby walks us through the Lancet Commission report on tuberculosis—which he chaired—that was issued immediately prior to the September ...

Kate Dodson, UN Foundation and Nellie Bristol, CSIS Senior Associate: “Process got in the way of ambition in New York.”

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Dodson, UN Foundation and Nellie Bristol, CSIS Senior Associate, survey the outcomes of the UN General Assembly during the third week of Septembe...

What do we make of 2023’s summer of climate shocks?

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The CommonHealth, we share the audio of a September 11 conversation among several different CSIS scholars on the question of whethe...

Dr. Scott Dowell, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: “I am optimistic.”

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Scott Dowell, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, unpacks the foundation’s $2 billion in investments during the three-year acute phase of the p...

Dr. Celine Gounder, KFF Health News: “Most people do not believe the lies or the truth.”

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Celine Gounder walks us through what to expect as the fall respiratory virus season unfolds—the ‘tripledemic’ of Covid, flu, and RSV (respir...

Morrison & Simoneau, ‘The Worst is Over – Now What?'

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The CommonHealth, Andrew Schwartz engages Michaela Simoneau and co-host J. Stephen Morrison on their newly published analysis of th...

Sera Young, Northwestern University: “Accountability is probably the most powerful tool that we have”

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

According to the recent report from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Program for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, coverage of safely managed wat...