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Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt “We Have Made Health Equity Everybody’s Business Here.”

25 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt, director of the Washington DC Department of Health, shares her insights into battling the pandemic. Washington is the opposite...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Helen Branswell “Are Vaccines Having a Moment?”

16 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Helen last joined us on April 2, 2020, a dark moment. She returned to explore with us whether the joy, relief, and gratitude that millions are experie...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Peter Hotez- The Unending Fight in Texas

11 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Hotez joins us for a Texas-centered conversation. After 11 years in Washington DC, Peter migrated to Texas where over the past several years he ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Ashish Jha “Equity is All About the Ground Game.”

02 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ashish Jha, a determined optimist, gives the Biden administration an A- for its first six weeks. The picture today is “dramatically better.” “A...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Sheryl Gay Stolberg “Spring is Just Around the Corner.”

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the NYT’s health policy correspondent, returned to our podcast to reflect on the first month of the Biden administration. Its a...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Chris Murray, IHME “This Is a Very Tricky Time”

17 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Murray kindly returned to the podcast for another round. We know now that variants increase transmissibility “by quite a bit,” and have the ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Bill Frist – “You Are Not Going to See the Snake Over In the Bush…”

10 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

…if you are fed misinformation from the top of the US government. Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist joined us to reflect on his life and wher...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Scott Kirby, United Airlines “Perhaps This Is the End of the Beginning”

03 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We were delighted to join this week with Scott Kirby, the CEO of United Airlines. The impact of the pandemic upon the airline industry has been “dev...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Alisha Kramer, the “New Normal” is “Not So Normal”

02 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Alisha Kramer, a CSIS alum and young doctor serving poor, black, pregnant women in Atlanta hospitals, rejoins us for a second podcast. One year in...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Céline Gounder “Fatalism is the Greatest Threat to Public Health.”

26 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Céline Gounder, a member of the Biden-Harris Transition Covid-19 Advisory Board, takes a look at where we are, less than one week after President...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Chef Jose Andres “The Fuel That Moves Humanity is Food.”

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chef Jose Andres sat down with us to reflect on his life, the organizations he has founded, and his unique, powerful vision for using food to transfor...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Luciana Borio – “It’s Gonna Be Hard.”

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Luciana Borio, a member of President-elect Biden’s Covid-19 Advisory Group and the transition team, scanned the horizon. On the development of ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Chris Murray, America’s Reopening

16 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Murray, the renowned modeler, joined us to share his year-end reflections. In this year unlike any other, Covid-19 pushed modeling onto new grou...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Artist Suzanne Firstenberg – a Sea of 267,080 White Flags

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steve and Andrew had the good fortune to catch Suzanne Firstenberg shortly after the recent conclusion of her stunning public art installation, ‘In ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Carissa Etienne – the Americas at the Epicenter of Covid-19

09 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Carissa Etienne, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), joined Steve Morrison and CSIS Senior Fellow Katherine Bliss for an exte...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Leana Wen – We are at a Breaking Point

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A renowned medical and public health voice of compassion, personal advice, pragmatism and vision, Dr. Leana Wen joined us for a tour d’horizon of th...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Sir Andrew Witty- The Power of the ACT Accelerator

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steve and CSIS Senior Fellow Katherine Bliss enjoined Sir Andrew Witty to help us answer a few fundamental question: what exactly is this new, umbrell...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Mike Osterholm – America’s Health Systems on Edge of Breakdown

20 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We sat down with Mike Osterholm, a member of President-Elect Biden’s Covid-19 Advisory Task Force, a renowned leader in global health security, dire...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea- “The Writing Was on the Wall.”

17 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Dorothy Shea, the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, along with Jon Alterman, SVP/Director of the CSIS Middle East Progr...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Jonathan (Jono) Quick – Transcending Pandemic Denial, Fatigue and Anger

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Jono Quick opens with a sweeping overview of the history of faulty responses to pandemics -- why we “descend into the valley of com...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Helene Gayle – How to Allocate a Covid-19 Vaccine Equitably?

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Helene Gayle sat down with us to reflect on the expert committee that she and Dr. Bill Foege led recently to map out – in record time – a framewor...

Delivering Vaccines to Americans: Cause for Alarm?

28 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Kates and Josh Michaud, Kaiser Family Foundation, joined us to discuss their new analysis, ‘Distributing a Covid-19 Vaccine Across the Unit...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: America- Two Different Countries Responding to a Single Pandemic

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mollyann Brodie, America’s premier health survey researcher, explores the widening bifurcation of America along partisan and ideological grounds, wi...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Tom Bollyky – The Next "Once in a Century" Pandemic Lies Ahead

16 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Tom Bollyky of the Council on Foreign Relations. Co-director of a newly released bipartisan CFR Independent Task ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: U Wis-Madison Chancellor Blank: "No Matter What You Do, People Will Be Angry With You.”

14 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As UW-Madison opened in early September, it faced a sudden explosion of Covid-19 cases. Hear from Chancellor Rebecca Blank why this happened, the step...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) on America’s Choices

07 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We crossed much sensitive and difficult ground in our extended conversation with Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK). President Trump’s bout with Covid-19, the pro...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: The Bumpy Ride of U.S. Colleges and Universities

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Our longstanding friend and ally Judyth Twigg joins us to survey the rather bumpy ride that America’s colleges and universities are experiencing as ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: The U.S. “Heading into the Fall Flying Blind”

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We sat with Chris Murray for an intense conversation on IHME’s recent, startling (and controversial) forecast that the United States would experienc...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: CSIS’s Rick Rossow—India’s pandemic takes off

15 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we learn from Richard Rossow, CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies. India now ranks second in the world in Covid-19 cases...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Heidi Larson – Time to Reset our Thinking on Vaccines

10 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

We gather to discuss with Dr. Heidi Larson about her new book, Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start – and Why they Don’t Go Away, a wake-up call and a...

The Pandemic Tale of Two Conventions

01 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Both the Democratic and Republican Conventions had to give a central prominence to the pandemic, but chose radically different approaches, story lines...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Can COVAX Change the Equation in the Scramble for Covid-19 Vaccines?

26 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

 In the global scramble for Covid-19 vaccines, dominated by aggressive nationalist approaches, COVAX has emerged as a promising, nascent, internation...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Putin’s Sputnik V Vaccine —“Trust us!”

14 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steve joined with CSIS Senior Vice President Heather Conley and Professor Judyth Twigg, Virginia Commonwealth University, to discuss the fast-breaking...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Is it Possible to Avert Chaos in the Vaccine Scramble?

12 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Steve is joined by two members of the global health team to discuss their new commentary on the race for a Covid-19 vaccine: Kathe...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Rep. Peter Welch on How Vermont Proves What is Possible

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What happens at the state level can be profoundly decisive. Steve sat with Rep. Peter Welch to discuss how Vermont became such a dramatic outlier, in ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Beth Cameron, “Nothing on this timeline has ever been attempted”

04 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Morrison sat down with Dr. Beth Cameron, Vice President at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, and former senior White House official responsible for...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Marc Daalder from Auckland - How did the Kiwis eliminate the virus? Now what?

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Morrison asks Marc Daalder, an incisive American reporter in New Zealand: how and why did New Zealand succeed in locking down the country, winn...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Anthony Fauci on America's Runaway Crisis

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Vice President and director of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center, sat down for a conversation on July 24 with Dr. Antho...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: David Sanger, NYT, How Did We Get to Where We Are Today?

21 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew and Steve gathered with David Sanger to discuss the NYT's recent investigative team’s efforts, which chronicled the momentous White House dec...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Peter Hotez on America’s Harrowing Slide

14 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Peter Hotez joins us from Houston. How did Texas and many other wildfire states run so out of control? What needs to change in the federal respons...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) on Racial Justice and Covid-19

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

"This is a marathon." Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), a renowned leader in Congress on racial justice and global health, discusses her proposed Comm...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Frances Stead Sellers, Washington Post, "Shocking but Not Surprising"

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Steve and Andrew invite Frances Stead Sellers, senior writer on the American desk at the Washington Post. Frances, through her eyes a...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Senator Patty Murray - Science First!

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Steve and Andrew speak with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) on the most pressing health issues before America. What is driving the aston...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Julie Gerberding on Shaping the Senate’s Outlook

26 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the hosts are joined by Julie Gerberding, a senior executive at Merck, a longstanding friend, and generous contributor to CSIS’s wo...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times – An American Awakening?

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the hosts engage with Sheryl Gay Stolberg, renowned Washington Correspondent at The New York Times. Since early this year she has bee...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Renee DiResta on Pseudoscience, Conspiracies, and Pandemics

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Renee DiResta, a prominent expert who studies malign narratives across social networks and what can be done to rebut them, walks Ste...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Haiti's "Perfect Storm"

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Steve speaks with Dr. Jean William (Bill) Pape, a renowned public health professor and practitioner appointed in late April by Haitia...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: South Africa’s Difficult Truth

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we speak with Professor Salim Abdool Karim (Slim), a preeminent HIV scientist based in Durban who chairs the scientific Covid-19 advi...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: A Covid-19 Survivor’s Tale

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, on the day when the number who have died from Covid-19 in America reached 100,000, we speak with special guests Eustace and Carol...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Advice for Us All From a Kid in This Crisis

20 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by a very special guest: Julien, a wonderfully insightful 13-year-old seventh-grader from Berkeley, California. We tal...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Covid-19 and How to Move Forward

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland joins us to talk about what Congress can do to respond to Covid-19 right now, including ens...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: John Barry, Eminent Pandemic Historian - "Tell the Truth"

15 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this crossover episode with CSIS's The Truth of the Matter podcast, Tulane University professor and historian John Barry, author of the New York Ti...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Can Africa CDC Stem the Covid-19 Crisis?

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we are joined by Director of the Africa CDC Dr. John Nkengasong and U.S. Ambassador to the African Union Jessica Lapenn. Africa CDC i...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: CSIS Alum Alisha Kramer Now a Doctor Serving Pregnant Women

06 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we bring in Alisha Kramer, a star who cut her teeth right after college working with the CSIS Global Health Policy Center. Now a fres...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Reviewing the World Health Organization

04 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the conversation takes off from a recent piece published by Steve and Anna Carroll, Global Health Policy Center’s Associate Fello...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Scott Dowell of the Gates Foundation on Stopping the Pandemic

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the hosts are joined by Scott Dowell, coronavirus response leader at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They discuss how successful...

Immunization and Universal Health Coverage: A Lifesaving Combination

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This week marks World Immunization Week, an annual celebration of vaccines that raise awareness and increase rates of immunization against vaccine-pre...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Congressman Ami Bera on Building a Crisis Workforce & Congress Returning

27 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Steve and Andrew are joined by Congressman Ami Bera (D-CA07) to talk about his work on the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Former Senator Kelly Ayotte on Ending the Cycle of Crisis and Complacency

22 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Former Senator Kelly Ayotte, co-chair of the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security, joins Steve and Andrew in explaining how th...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Peter Sands, the Global Fund - "The contagion of fear"

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Peter Sands, executive director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, joins Steve and Andrew in exploring the...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Guidelines to Reopen - how, and when?

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Andrew asks Steve to interpret the guidelines issued by President Trump yesterday in a three-phase process of reopening. Why the pivo...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Christopher Murray on the "Chris Murray Model"

15 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Christopher Murray joins Steve Morrison and Andrew Schwartz to discuss the “Murray Model,” what a rolling reopening of the economy would look ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Susan Glasser, The New Yorker – How to make sense of this story?

13 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Susan Glasser, staff writer at The New Yorker, joins Steve and Andrew to discuss the full range of rapidly evolving issues surroundi...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: "Hunker Down Hoosiers" with Congresswoman Susan Brooks

08 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Steve and Andrew are joined by Congresswoman Susan Brooks (R-IN05) to talk about her work on the CSIS Commission on Strengthening Ame...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Ron Klain - What This Pandemic Has Taught Us

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s guest is Ron Klain, former Ebola response coordinator in the Obama Administration and current senior adviser to presidential candidate forme...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Helen Branswell - "Walking through Hell"

03 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steve and Andrew speak with Helen Branswell, a premiere journalist and one of the world’s leading experts on dangerous infectious disease outbreaks,...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Dr. Tom Frieden - "Tears in my eyes"

30 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Andrew and Steve talk to Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives and former CDC Director. They discuss why Dr. Frieden has ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Washington's Secretary of Health on the Scramble for Resources

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Andrew and Steve talk to Secretary John Wiesman, Secretary of Health for Washington state. They discuss the testing and hospital capacity in Wa...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Live from Munich with Paul Stoffels of Johnson & Johnson

25 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In mid-February, Steve Morrison of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center attended the Munich Security Conference. There, he moderated a roundtable on h...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Live from Munich with Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In mid-February, Steve Morrison of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center attended the Munich Security Conference. There, he moderated a roundtable on h...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: U.S.-China Dueling Conspiracy Theories

23 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Andrew and Steve are joined by Jude Blanchette, Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. They discuss how the U.S. and China are dealing with th...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Fmr. FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg on Testing and Where We Go From Here

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Andrew and Steve talk to Dr. Margaret "Peggy" Hamburg, foreign secretary of the National Academy of Medicine and member of the CSIS Commission ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Military in the Mix

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Steve and Andrew invite CSIS's Kathleen Hicks to discuss how the military can respond to COVID-19, and to what extent that can be don...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: What's Next

16 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this first remote episode, Steve and Andrew discuss what’s happening with the U.S. response: the wholesale suspension of work and cultural events...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Economic Troubles

13 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode, Steve and Andrew speak with Stephanie Segal, senior fellow and deputy director of the William E. Simon Chair in Political Econom...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: An Act of Desperation

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is closely watching the coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, as it spreads througho...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Julie Gerberding, Merck

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is closely watching the coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, as it spreads througho...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Shared Threats

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is closely watching the coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, as it spreads quickly ...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Live from Munich with Mike Ryan of the WHO

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In mid-February, Steve Morrison of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center attended the Munich Security Conference. There, he moderated a roundtable on h...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: Live from Munich with Orin Levine of the Gates Foundation

26 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In mid-February, Steve Morrison of the CSIS Global Health Policy Center attended the Munich Security Conference. There, he moderated a roundtable on h...

Coronavirus Crisis Update: More Than We Realized

24 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is closely watching the coronavirus outbreak, also known as COVID-19, as it spreads quickly ...

Health Security Miniseries: CDC Director Rebecca Martin on the Global Health Security Agenda

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Late last year, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security released its final report on ending the cycle of crisis and complacency...

Health Security Miniseries: Ambassador Jimmy Kolker and Carolyn Reynolds on Pandemic Preparedness Investments

05 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Late last year, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security released its final report on ending the cycle of crisis and complacency...

Health Security Miniseries: CEPI CEO Richard Hatchett and New Technologies

14 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Late last year, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security released its final report on ending the cycle of crisis and complacency...

Gender-based Violence as a Weapon of War

17 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This episode examines the changing nature of war and conflict and why gender-based violence (GBV) has become a central feature in crises aroun...

The New Threat - Making Sense of Vaccine-Derived Polio

03 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Take as Directed, Nellie Bristol speaks with Dr. John Vertefeuille. Dr Vertefeuille is currently the polio eradication branch ch...

Saving Lives Through Global Immunization

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On September 27th, the CSIS Global Health Policy Center hosted a conference focused on Securing Healthy Populations in a New Era of Global Immunizati...

Malaria Eradication Within a Generation? How Plausible?

15 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018, more than 200 million people contracted malaria around the world, and nearly half a million died of it. As countries continue to battle malar...

Putin and Global Health: Friend or Foe?

02 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In the last decade, Russia has increased its global engagement, while at the same time pursuing policies at home that are giving rise to HIV/AIDS and ...

Rethinking Vaccine Delivery

17 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

While the world has seen tremendous improvement in the availability of life-saving vaccines, coverage rates have stagnated over the last decade. The U...

Why Do Demographic Trends Matter for Global Health?

03 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The population of Africa is expected to double over the next 20 years, which means that many countries are facing either a demographic dividend or pot...

The New Landscape for Gavi 5.0

20 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

At the end of June, the Board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, approved their new “5.0” strategy for 2021-2025, with an ambitious set of priorities ...

Preparing Early Against Dangerous Pathogens

06 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Since its inception in 2017, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, has come to be seen as among the most promising innovations...

Unpacking the DRC Ebola Crisis with Jason Stearns

16 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Take as Directed, J. Stephen Morrison sits down with Jason Stearns, Director of the Congo Research Group at the Center for Internat...

Unpacking the DRC Ebola Crisis with David Gressly

09 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Take as Directed, J. Stephen Morrison sits down with David Gressly, the UN Emergency Ebola Response Coordinator in the Democratic R...

Innovation and Optimism: A Conversation with Dr. Trevor Mundel

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Take as Directed, J. Stephen Morrison speaks with Dr. Trevor Mundel, President of the Global Health Division at the Bill & Melinda ...

Geeta Rao Gupta on Gender Equality and Health

25 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Take as Directed, host Janet Fleischman sits down with Geeta Rao Gupta, executive director of the 3D Program for Girls and Women, f...

Politics, Health, and Humanitarianism: The Role of UNRWA

12 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Take as Directed, Sara Allinder is joined by special guest host Haim Malka, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow of the CSIS Middle Ea...

Vaccine Confidence in Crisis

28 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Take as Directed, J. Stephen Morrison speaks with Dr. Heidi Larson, Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School...

Global Diets and the Risk of Disease: Evaluating Eating Habits Around the World

14 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Take as Directed, Steve Morrison speaks with Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (I...