Episodes

  • [podcast] Co-Chairs of WHO Civil Society Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance share insights

    [podcast] Co-Chairs of WHO Civil Society Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance share insights
    Dec 6 2025
    This Podcast features both co-chairs of first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR): Katherine Urbaez and Tracie Muraya.
    Katherine Urbaez is a former diplomat from the Dominican Republic, who has been instrumental throughout her career in numerous negotiations and in developing public policies within various multilateral processes, with a specific focus on health, human rights, and environmental issues. She also served on the Executive Board Membership to WHO.

    Tracie Muraya is the Deputy Director for Policy & Strategy for ReAct Africa. She engages with policymakers, AMR stakeholders, and national and local AMR Coordinating Committees, including at the Regional Quadripartite and Africa CDC. Tracie coordinates in-country projects in Africa which are implementing National Action Plans on AMR.

    They were in conversation with Shobha Shukla, Chairperson of Global AMR Media Alliance (GAMA) and CNS Executive Director.

    Background piano music credit: Ms Reya Shukla Iyer and Tara Shukla Iyer.

    Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, ListenNotes, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.
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    CNS and GAMA team
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  • [podcast] Reaching the unreached people with TB services in Kangra Dharamshala

    [podcast] Reaching the unreached people with TB services in Kangra Dharamshala
    Jan 7 2025
    First podcast of 2025 features Dr Rajesh Kumar Sood, District Programme Officer, National Health Mission and District TB Officer (National TB Elimination Programme) Kangra Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India. He is in conversation with CNS founder Managing Editor and Executive Director Shobha Shukla on the ongoing #100Days focussed campaign to #ReachTheUnreached people with best of TB diagnostics, treatment and prevention services in India.
    Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by a young feminist Ms Tara Shukla Iyer from UK.

    Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.
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    CNS team
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  • [podcast] Reality check on gender justice in Kyrgyzstan: Nurgul Dzhanaeva speaks

    [podcast] Reality check on gender justice in Kyrgyzstan: Nurgul Dzhanaeva speaks
    Sep 15 2024

    This podcast features Nurgul Dzhanaeva, President of the Forum of Women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, who has worked on SDG-related issues at the local, national, regional and global levels. From 2016-2019, she was instrumental in initiating the campaign “From Global to Local” which sought to integrate SDG Goal 5 – to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls – into Kyrgyzstan’s local sustainable development strategies and plans.

    She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, CNS Founder Executive Director and feminist development justice leader, at the Asia Pacific Feminist Forum (APFF 2024) in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
    • Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by young feminist Ms Tara Shukla Iyer from UK.
    Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.
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    CNS team
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  • [podcast] Reality check on gender justice in the Pacific: Nalini Singh of Fiji Women's Rights Movements speaks

    [podcast] Reality check on gender justice in the Pacific: Nalini Singh of Fiji Women's Rights Movements speaks
    Sep 14 2024
    This podcast features Nalini Singh, a noted Fiji's human rights activist and Executive Director of Fiji Women's Rights Movement (FWRM). She is in conversation with Shobha Shukla, a feminist development justice activist and CNS Founder Executive Director around the 4th Asia Pacific Feminist Forum on the theme of: Feminist world building - creative energies, collective journeys in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
    • Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by young feminists Ms Tara Shukla Iyer and Ms Reya Shukla Iyer from UK.
    Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.
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    CNS team
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  • [podcast] Asia Pacific not on track to end AIDS, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections

    [podcast] Asia Pacific not on track to end AIDS, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections
    Aug 28 2024
    This special Podcast features Dr Po-Lin Chan, Regional Advisor (HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections - STIs) at World Health Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Office, and Dr Ishwar Gilada, who is a part of Organising Committee of 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) and Governing Council of International AIDS Society (IAS). They were in conversation with CNS Founder Executive Director and Managing Editor Shobha Shukla in Munich Germany. CNS is among the official media partners of AIDS 2024.
    • Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by Ms Reya Shukla Iyer from UK.
    Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.
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    CNS team
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  • [podcast] 2024 Asia Pacific Feminist Forum to focus on "Feminist world-building: Creative energies, collective journeys"

    [podcast] 2024 Asia Pacific Feminist Forum to focus on "Feminist world-building: Creative energies, collective journeys"
    Aug 27 2024
    This special Podcast features leaders from 2024 Asia Pacific Feminist Forum #APFF4 (Chiang Mai, Thailand: 12-14 September 2024). The theme of APFF4 is "Feminist world-building: Creative energies, collective journeys." Panelists include: Abia Akram, a disability rights activist and the founder and CEO of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; Eni Lestari, a migrant rights activist and the Chairperson of International Migrants Alliance; Ivy Josiah, a women's rights activist who has led Malaysia’s Women’s Aid Organisation for 20 years as its Past President and Executive Director. They are in conversation with CNS founder Executive Director and feminist leader Shobha Shukla.
    • For more information on APFF4, click here.
    • Opening and closing instrumental piano music is played by a 7 years old feminist Ms Tara Shukla Iyer from UK.
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  • [podcast] Are we focussing on those struggling to access health services with equity & right?

    [podcast] Are we focussing on those struggling to access health services with equity & right?
    Jul 15 2024
    This podcast features Sumit Mitra, President (International Sales), Molbio Diagnostics. He is speaking in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) on what #PutPeopleFirst means to him.

    Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.

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    CNS team
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  • [podcast] #PutPeopleFirst means walking the talk on "Nothing About Us Without Us"

    [podcast] #PutPeopleFirst means walking the talk on "Nothing About Us Without Us"
    Jul 15 2024
    This podcast features Dr Kuldeep Singh Sachdeva, former head of Indian government's TB and HIV programmes (DDG), former South-East Asia Regional Director of International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and currently serving as President-CMO of Molbio Diagnostics. He is speaking in lead up to 25th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2024) on what #PutPeopleFirst means to him.

    Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.

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    CNS team
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