The CommonHealth

Anuradha Gupta, Sabin Vaccine Institute: ‘Whether a country is poor or has a large population, progress is possible’

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Anuradha Gupta, President of Global Immunizations at the Sabin Vaccine Institute, discusses key findings from the new World Health Or...

Gary Edson, Covid Collaborative: “PEPFAR is a pawn in the culture wars.”

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Edson, Covid Collaborative, reflects on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), now at its 20th anniversary. It originated wit...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT: “Our attention has turned.”

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT national correspondent on health and politics, unpacks the post-Dobbs era: does it imperil or boost the right to contraceptio...

Dr. Mitch Wolfe: CDC regional offices are inextricably linked to security.

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Mitch Wolfe, former CDC Chief Medical Officer, explains the genesis of CDC’s vision for six regional offices as a “long-term permanent oversea...

Helen Branswell, STAT: “In the spring of 2022, I thought my head would explode.”

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Helen Branswell, STAT, unpacks for us important complicated topics that can, frankly, be confusing. She explains why this is a big moment for Respirat...

Dan Diamond, Washington Post: “Easier to play offense than defense”

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Diamond, Washington Post, reflects on big emerging themes. The administration’s scientific, biomedical, and public health leadership has emptied...

David Kramer, George W. Bush Institute: “The most successful global health program in history”

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Twenty years after President George W. Bush signed the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003, establishing PEPFAR, Da...

Jeremy Konyndyk, Refugees International: Opponents of public health are winning.

08 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Konyndyk, President of Refugees International, is a humanitarian leader, emergency operator, and policy innovator. He joins us to share his tho...

Matthew Goodman, CSIS: a dramatic G7 Hiroshima Summit

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Matt Goodman, CSIS SVP and Simon Chair in Political Economy, unpacks the several striking developments at the recent G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Russia’...

Adam Havey, Emergent BioSolutions: “Lead with the facts.”

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Havey, Executive VP, Emergent BioSolutions, speaks to the “great unwinding” with the end of the Public Health Emergency, including the outsta...

Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid Response Coordinator: Pandemic wartime is over, the “great unwinding” is fully on.

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid Response Coordinator, speaks to the “great unwinding” of the $4.6 trillion pandemic wartime transformation ...

Joe Grogan: “Worried about the war that we are waging against innovators who have the audacity to be successful.”

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Joe Grogan, former Assistant to the President and Director, White House Domestic Policy Council in the Trump Administration, shares his insights on se...

Thomas Bollyky, CFR: The roots of the US Covid catastrophe—“a syndemic of politics and race.”

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

“Not all U.S. states struggled equally.” Thomas Bollyky, CFR, led an ambitious, nuanced effort to break down Covid outcomes across 50 states and W...

Professor Heidi Larson, co-founder of The Global Listening Project: "The only way you're going to be relevant is if you listen."

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As World Immunization Week gets underway, Professor Heidi Larson, anthropologist, founder of the Vaccine Confidence Project, and co-founder of The Glo...

Sachiko Imoto, SVP, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)—the alignment of Japan-U.S. health security priorities

21 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sachiko Imoto, SVP, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is the lead on JICA’s human development work. In our conversation, she illuminate...

Minister Dan Jørgensen of Denmark: “Imagine a Pandemic Where You’re Not Able to Treat the Disease Because of Resistance”

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Jørgensen, Denmark’s Minister for International Development and Global Climate Change Policy, reflects on a busy week of spring meetings at the...

Prof. Victor Cha: Unpacking North Korea’s isolation

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We sit down again with Victor Cha, Professor at Georgetown University and Senior Vice President at CSIS, for an update on what we know, suspect, and d...

Professor Jennifer Nuzzo: “I am glad we are having this conversation” on school closures.

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Jennifer Nuzzo, Brown University SPH Pandemic Center, reflects on the recent March 28 hearing that the House Select Subcommittee on the Coro...

Admiral Raquel Bono (ret.): At the pandemic’s front face in Washington State

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Raquel Bono, a recently retired, highly accomplished 3-star Admiral as 2020 opened, unexpectedly found herself advising Washington State Governor ...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT: “You cannot keep a raccoon dog as a pet.”

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the iconic health policy/politics reporter at the New York Times, helps us inaugurate The CommonHealth podcast, companion to th...

Goodbye, Coronavirus Crisis Update. Hello, The CommonHealth!

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to The CommonHealth, the podcast of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security. The CommonHealth replaces the Coronavirus Crisis...

Sam Radwan, Enhance International “Is this the calm before the storm?”

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Radwan, founder of Enhance International, has worked on health developments inside China for two decades. He shares his insights and raises some d...

Dr. Michael Osterholm, CIDRAP, Univ. Minnesota: Fighting Omicron “like trying to stop the wind.”

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this newest episode in our series on China, Mike Osterholm reflects. There is no easy explanation for why the Chinese government did so little to ...

Dr. Scott Rivkees, former Florida Secretary of Health: What happened behind the scenes?

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Scott Rivkees served under Governor DeSantis as Florida’s Surgeon General and Secretary of Health for 27 months during the pandemic, in what bec...

Dr. Chris Murray, IHME, "…we are in for a harder spell…”

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As part of our series on China post-COVID-19, Chris Murray reflects on where things stand, almost two months after President Xi threw off Zero-Covid c...

Dr. Scott Kennedy, CSIS -- “Give us our lives back!”

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our continued series on China post-Zero Covid, Dr. Scott Kennedy recounts the revelations from his six weeks in Beijing and Shanghai in late 2022, ...

Dr. Yanzhong Huang: China’s calculations “puzzling”

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As 2023 opens, Yanzhong Huang, Council on Foreign Relations/Seton Hall University, kicks off our new podcast series focused on China. Over the past mo...

Dr. Kristina Box and Dr. Judy Monroe, the Governor of Indiana’s Commission on Public Health, “The buffalo runs into the storm.”

03 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this 153rd episode, Doctors Kristina Box and Judy Monroe walk us through the recently concluded Indiana Governor’s Commission on Public Health. ...

Dr. Raj Panjabi, National Security Council, on the new U.S. National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 152, we share the audio of the one-hour conversation J. Stephen Morrison held at CSIS on October 19 with Dr. Raj Panjabi, Special Assistant...

Dr. Ashish Jha, White House Covid Response Coordinator: “You can tackle the big stuff.”

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this special CCU episode, #151, we bring you the audio of a conversation that J. Stephen Morrison held with Dr. Ashish Jha on September 27. How is...

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, White House Deputy Coordinator—update on monkeypox response

22 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode 150, Dr. Daskalakis, White House Deputy Coordinator of the monkey pox response, has been at his job for six weeks, attempting an urgent tur...

Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Future Outlook for COVID-19

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this special episode, we bring you the audio of a broadcast interview that J. Stephen Morrison held on Monday, September 19 with Dr. Fauci, Chief M...

Dr. Krishna Udayakumar: “The world has moved on.”

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, founding director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, shares his trenchant insights into this confusing moment of tra...

Dr. Rochelle Walensky: A Fireside Chat, at CSIS

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On this 147th episode, we are offering the fireside chat, held on August 30 at CSIS, at which CDC Director Rochelle Walensky laid out her newly announ...

Dr. Chris Murray, IHME on Moving Forward Amid Uncertainty and Complacency

09 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On this 146th episode, Dr. Chris Murray, IHME, delivers several sharp messages. Tracking Covid is increasingly difficult, a function of both underrep...

Dan Diamond, Washington Post, on Monkeypox: ”The Calendar Is Not Our Friend.”

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Diamond, Washington Post, joins J. Stephen Morrison, CSIS, for a tour d’horizon of rapidly unfolding Monkeypox developments: How to explain the ...

Dr. Marci Nielsen: “With COVID, Public Health Is in Front of Us”

28 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Marci Nielsen, Vice President for Policy and Advocacy at Resolve to Save Lives, joins J. Stephen Morrison for episode 144. For an 18 month period...

Dr. Celine Gounder: "On Monkeypox: It's not Surprising That We're Stumbling Again"

22 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Celine Gounder, senior fellow & editor-at-large for public health at KFF's Kaiser Health News, joins J. Stephen Morrison and Andrew Schwartz f...

Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux: “Meeting People Where They’re at Is Very, Very, Very Powerful."

28 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux, Research Director of the Global Public Policy and Social Change Program, Harvard School of Medicine, joins J. Stephen Morrison...

Apoorva Mandavilli, NYT: On Monkeypox - "We Shouldn't Be Alarmed, but We Should Be Concerned."

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Apoorva Mandavilli, a science and global health reporter at The New York Times, joins J. Stephen Morrison and H. Andrew Schwartz for this 141st episo...

Dr. Jeffrey Gold: “The Communities We Serve Have to Be Our North Star.”

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jeffrey Gold, Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), joins J. Stephen Morrison for this 140th episode. How did UNMC evol...

Dr. Deborah Birx: "We Prepared for the Wrong Kind of Pandemic"

24 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this 139th episode, Dr. Deborah Birx joins J. Stephen Morrison to discuss her new book, Silent Invasion. On that day, former President Trump res...

North Korea: A Covid-19 Disaster Unlike Any Other

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Andrew Schwartz and J. Stephen Morrison are joined by Victor Cha to discuss the Covid-19 outbreak in North Korea - which CSIS predic...

Yana Panfilova: “We Are so Young, but a Lot of People Have This Belief That We Can Change Our Country”

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Yana Panfilova, a 24-year-old Ukrainian woman born with HIV, fled Kyiv shortly after Russia’s invasion and is currently based in Berlin with her mot...

Yasmeen Abutaleb: "No One has Succeeded in Predicting What is Going to Happen."

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Yasmeen Abutaleb, health policy reporter at The Washington Post, joins Steve Morrison and Andrew Schwartz for this 136th episode. The Biden administr...

Dr. Dylan George: “We Need to Build an Internal Team That Can Move at a Moment’s Notice”

04 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Dylan George is the Director of Operations for the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA), newly established at the Center for Diseas...

Dr. Larry Gostin: “Should We Allow One Federal District Court Judge to Issue a Nationwide Injunction?”

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Larry Gostin is a professor of global health law and the faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georget...

Dr. Yanzhong Huang: "What is Happening in Shanghai Has its Impacts Felt All Over the World."

20 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Yanzhong Huang is Professor at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Senior Fellow for global health at the ...

Dr. Beth Cameron: "If We Don't Prepare Now, We are Going to Get Caught Flat-Footed by the Crises of the Future"

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Beth Cameron, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the White House, joins Steve for ...

Dan Diamond: "Each Covid Coordinator is Inheriting a Better Situation Than the Person Who Came Before"

08 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Washington Post's Dan Diamond returns for Episode #131. Public attitudes towards Covid-19 have changed, and the pandemic has become a lower politi...

DoD Mini Series: Matt Hepburn “Let’s Take Pandemics Off the Table”

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Matt Hepburn of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy joins Steve and CSIS Senior Associate Tom Cullison for this 130th episode...

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank: “Culture Is Hard… It Only Changes Slowly Over Time”

22 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this 129th episode, Steve joined in frank conversation with University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank as she approaches the conclusi...

Live From Munich: Dr. Richard Hatchett “Pandemic Preparedness Needs to Be Viewed as a Security Challenge”

15 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Two years later, Dr. Richard Hatchett, CEO of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations rejoins Steve for the second iteration of our Live F...

Scott Kirby: “It's About Making Real Change”

11 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this 127th episode, an edited version of a live event recorded on March 2, Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, joins Steve for a fireside chat. Sc...

Live From Munich: Tom Bollyky “We Can't Do This on Our Own.”

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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”

08 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 ep...

Live From Munich: Dr. Seth Berkley “It is a Security Issue”

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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 l...

Live From Munich: Dr. John Nkengasong “The Concepts are Global, But the Practice is Local”

04 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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...

John Barry: “The Guy Who Focuses at the End Will Win”

16 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Barry, historian and author of the award-winning The Great Influenza; the Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History, a study of the 1918 pandemi...

Drs. Kristina Box and Judy Monroe – The Indiana Governor’s Public Health Review Commission

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In 2021, Indiana Governor Holcomb launched the Public Health Review Commission, charged with asking hard questions that cover the waterfront of public...

DoD Mini-Series: Major General Paul Friedrichs — Covid-19 and the Department of Defense

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Episode 120, the first episode of our Department of Defense mini-series, Joint Staff Surgeon Major General Paul Friedrichs, discusses how the Depa...

Dr. Peter Kilmarx: Distrust in Public Health in America “Is One of Those Wicked Problems”

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In episode #119, Dr. Peter Kilmarx, Fogarty International Center, discusses the struggle to advance contact tracing. Efforts early in 2020 to create a...

Dr. Michael Osterholm: “Don’t Be Surprised When You Are Surprised.”

28 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Michael Osterholm, head of CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota, is among the most popular, respected, and trusted communicators on the pandemic....

Dr. Chris Murray: “I Have Not Yet Received an Invite From Tucker… or Joe Rogan”

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Chris Murray, head of IHME, joined us in episode 117 to discuss his recent provocative piece in The Lancet, ‘Covid-19 will continue but the end ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci: “Omicron Will Ultimately Find Everybody”

18 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Anthony Fauci joined J. Stephen Morrison for a CSIS live-streamed conversation on January 11. Today’s podcast is based on that conversation. Do...

Dr. Gigi Gronvall: Antigen Tests “The Hottest Christmas Toy”

11 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Gigi Gronvall, a leading international expert on tests, kindly joined us for a spirited tour d’horizon. People need tests for multiple purposes...

Dr. Ashish Jha: “Humanize Yourself… I Live in a Pandemic Too.”

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ashish Jha reflected as the year closes. Communications are now fundamental to public health. Most critical is to speak as though you are engaging fri...

Philip Zelikow: a Covid-19 National Commission is the Bridge We Need — Now

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Zelikow, former Executive Director of the 9/11 national commission, has for the past year directed the Covid-19 Commission Planning Group. He v...

Dr. Richard Lessells: Omicron Seen Up Close in South Africa

01 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Richard Lessells is among the exceptional South African experts on the front lines of discovering and investigating Omicron in South Africa. Alarm...

Dr. Taison Bell: “You Tend to Find Yourself Back Home.”

23 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Taison Bell, MD, an acclaimed African-American doctor, educator, and emergency medicine director in Charlottesville, Virginia, shares his personal...

Cary Funk, Pew Research Center: “It Can Be Confusing”

16 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We asked Cary Funk, Pew Research Center, to make sense of how the pandemic has impacted our society and American opinion as we approach the pandemic’...

Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg on Her Memorial to America’s Pandemic Loss: ‘In America: Remember'

09 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

From September 17-October 1, Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg created the largest participatory art installation on the Washington National Mall since the ...

Dr. Richard Brennan, WHO Emergency Operations: The “Delicate Dance” with the Taliban

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Richard Brennan, WHO Emergency Operations, sat down this week with Steve and Professor Leonard Rubenstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Publi...

Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo: An Inbox Full of Dangerous Threats

26 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo has emerged as a forceful expert voice making sense of the complex and times confusing, shifting shoals of the pandemic. ”All of ...

Prof. Larry Gostin: “It’s No Secret. America is a Mess.”

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

On October 7, Andrew and Steve sat down with a close friend, Georgetown’s Prof. Larry Gostin, for a lively live-cast conversation about his new book...

Dr. Leana Wen: “The End of the Pandemic is in Sight”

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Leana Wen joined us this week to explore her personal history and its revelations, laid out in remarkably candid detail in her newly released memo...

Carmen Paun, Year One of POLITICO Global Pulse a Success

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Carmen Paun, a dynamic, fresh media voice on global health in Washington, shares her personal and career journey from Romania to Brussels, and on to h...

Susan Glasser, The New Yorker: “It’s Never Too Late to Do the Right Thing”

28 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In a recent New Yorker ‘Letter from Biden’s Washington,’ Susan Glasser delivers a stark indictment: Trumpists and Republican leadership are cons...

Dr. Monica Gandhi: Californians Cast a "Referendum on Illiberal Liberals"

21 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Monica Gandhi toured the landscape with us. The recent recall of California Governor Gavin Newsom has bipartisan roots, in dissatisfaction with th...

Dr. LaQuandra S. Nesbitt: “Vaccine Requirements Will Get Us Over The Finish Line”

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. LaQuandra S. Nesbitt, Director of the DC Department of Health, returned as our guest to share her reflections. Her view of President Biden’s six...

Tom Bollyky: “We Don’t Know How This Started”

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Bollyky joined us on the occasion of our 100th episode to reflect on President Biden’s six-point re-set of US pandemic policy, unveiled Septemb...

Larry Gostin – “Mandates May Be The Only Way Out of This”

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Larry Gostin joined us for a spirited conversation of where America as a country stands today, almost two years into Covid-19. Human ingenui...

Dr. Anthony Fauci: Tour d’Horizon Aug 3, 2021

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In conversation with Steve Morrison on August 3, Dr. Fauci began by laying out the $3.2b Antiviral Program for Pandemics. Its dual aims are quick and ...

Chris Murray, IHME: “A Very Awkward Situation”

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Murray, director of IHME, joined our podcast once again, at this major moment of reset of expectations – of our ability to control the pandemi...

Dr. Deborah Birx: “We Need to Be Testing Strategically”

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Birx, former Response Coordinator during the Trump administration of the White House Covid-19 Task Force, served also as the Global AIDS Coordinat...

Gary Edson: “Nothing of Significance Happens Without US Leadership”

21 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Gary Edson, President and founder of The Covid Collaborative, has for decades been a highly visible and impactful leader across government, business, ...

Dr. Charity Dean Wrote “It Started” in December 2019

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’re blessed to sit down with Dr. Charity Dean, the central figure of Michael Lewis’ pandemic book, The Premonition, former Assistant Director of...

Yasmeen Abutaleb & Damian Paletta: "Nightmare Scenario"

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Washington Post ace reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta take us inside their newly released blockbuster, "Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Tru...

Three Angles on January 6

01 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Morrison, who lives in the shadow of the Capitol, brought together Liz Lynch, a freelance professional photographer who attended the January 6 r...

Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) -- Health Security in America and Beyond

22 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), the senior House appropriator and a respected national leader on health security at home and abroad, has served on the CSIS Com...

Krishna Udayakumar – Deep Inequities “Baked Into” Early Vaccine Deals

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Krishna Udayakumar explains how he systematically assembled data to make sense of the fast-moving global marketplace in vaccines, amid the pandemic, b...

Philip Zelikow: Why Do We Need a National Commission on the Pandemic?

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Philip Zelikow, former executive director of the 9/11 Commission, has launched an ambitious fast-moving planning effort to scope what a commission on ...

The Next Phase of Covid-19

25 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week the CSIS Schieffer Series hosted a high-energy exchange on “The Next Phase Of Covid-19.” Steve and Andrew were joined by Jeremy Konyndyk...

Dan Diamond “Heady Times”

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Diamond has covered health, politics, and the White House for the Washington Post since January 19. What is going on in the international side of ...

Dr. Monica Gandhi: Success Comes From “Vaccines, Vaccines, Vaccines”

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Monica Gandhi has thought deeply about the complex transition we have entered, with many vaccinated, and many not. We need to behave differently i...

Dr. Brian Castrucci: “We Needed to Change the Conversation.”

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Castrucci joined us to discuss his evolving collaborations with noted Republican pollster Frank Luntz, an expert who is a “master class in commu...

Mollyann Brodie, KFF: “Accept People Where They Are.”

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We sat down this week with the acclaimed survey expert, Mollyann Brodie who been exceptionally busy in recent months, engaging over 11,000 American ad...

Dr. Deborah Birx: “Moms Out There, Call Your Sons!”

13 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Deborah Birx, former Trump White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and renowned global HIV/AIDS leader, spoke to us about a rich assortment o...

Frances Stead Sellers: Vaccines “Are Not Bulletproof Vests”

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Journalist, writer, editor Frances Stead Sellers returned to share new insights. Leaders like Henrietta Fore, UNICEF, struggle with “incredible add...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Jennifer Kates & Josh Michaud “A Race Against Time.”

30 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Jennifer Kates and Josh Michaud, Kaiser Family Foundation, take us on a tour d’horizon. Rapidly accelerating vaccine coverage has resulted in “...