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Hosted by Joseph Harris, the Global Health Politics podcast features intimate, one-of-a-kind conversations with leading scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and activists working on critical issues in global health.

Every year, around 5 million individuals die due to various types of injuries like road accidents, burns, falls, or violence. Shockingly, 90% of these deaths occur in low- or middle-income countries (LMICs). Moreover, even for those who survive these injuries, disability rates are quite high, with around 40-50% of people being unable to work or disabled post-injury. To address this issue, the World Health Organization has called for the establishment of strong health systems that provide quality care to people who are injured to prevent death and disability. However, there is a lack of ...

Global Health Conversations explores the most important topics in the worlds of public health, medicine, science and development. From infectious diseases to scientific career paths and healthcare policy, Global Health Conversations are nuanced discussions covering topics impacting global public health with informed and researched positions. Guests share their stories, research findings, and solutions to some of the most pressing health challenges facing our world today. Join the conversation. Read more: https://globalhealthwriter.com/2023/03/13/...

Two pioneers of the “Global Health Diplomacy” movement - Eric Goosby and Ben Plumley reveal the inner workings of how decisions are made affecting the health of millions of people around the world, and how the principles of international collaboration and equity serve as a foundation of humanity’s response to the seismic geopolitical shifts and pandemic threats our world now face. Eric and Ben ask tough questions of their guests and share their own strong opinions - though always through the grace and diplomacy of their craft.

A podcast about the unspoken realities of global health in Africa and the world

Welcome to Global Voice, a weekly podcast that interviews frontline healthcare workers from around the world. Hosted by Malick Gaye, each episode introduces a new healthcare worker who is challenging health disparities in their communities. Often working in active conflict zones or areas with little-to-no access to medical care, our guest's lifesaving work will provide you a new perspective to global health challenges.

Why are infants still dying from preventable causes? How do national security policies impact the health of immigrants and refugees? What is voluntourism and can it harm the communities we intend to serve? The field of global health is vast, and the challenges can feel overwhelming. But learning about it shouldn’t be. Whether you're taking the first steps in the field of global health, a seasoned public health professional, or simply seeking inspiration from the stories of remarkable leaders, this podcast is for you. Discover how inspiring leaders are combating global poverty, bringing clean...

This podcast is a package of ten one-hour episodes (seven in English and three in French) with eminent experts having multifaceted backgrounds in the private and public healthcare sectors in the U.S., Canada, and France. It aims at answering the following questions regarding global health, in their respective areas of expertise and based on their vast experience: What is the status? What are the trends? What are the challenges? Would you please give a few examples of projects that were successful or failed,explaining why? What are some solutions, in particular, what could be scaled? It was ...

Foreign Affairs’ Deputy Managing Editor Stuart Reid interviews the new director-general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Big Pharma is more interested in profit than health. This was made clear as governments rushed to produce vaccines during the Covid pandemic. Behind the much-trumpeted scientific breakthroughs, major companies found new ways of gouging billions from governments in the West while abandoning the Global South. But this is only the latest episode in a long history of financializing medicine—from Purdue's rapacious marketing of highly addictive OxyContin through Martin Shkreli's hiking the price of a lifesaving drug to the 4.5 million South Africans needlessly deprived of HIV/AIDS medication.

"Trump Administration Puts U.S. At a Crossroad for Global Health Aid" is from the December 19, 2016 US section of The New York Times. It was written by Donald G. Mcneil Jr. and narrated by Kristi Burns.

A podcast that sheds light on biosimilars and helps you better understand the role they play in your healthcare, now and in the future. The podcast is part of the Global Healthy Living Foundation Podcast Network and hosted by Zoe Rothblatt and Conner Mertens, both Patient Advocates and Community Outreach Managers at GHLF.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water. At 28 years old, Scott Harrison had it all. A top nightclub promoter in New York City, his life was an...

Sebastian Harris, the founder of globalseducer.com and author of Rise of the Phoenix: How to Get the Hottest Girls in a World That Wants You to Fail shares his experience picking up girls in dozens of countries on five different continents. If you struggle with approach anxiety, fear of women, fear of rejection, and the popular "what should I say next" syndrome, Sebastian's daily 10-minute rants about pickup and seduction will change your life. It doesn't matter if you want a girlfriend, friends with benefits relationships, or if you want to travel the world and seduce a new breathtaking young...

Africa Health Weekly is a podcast that brings you the latest health news, innovations, and stories from across the African continent. Each week, we spotlight pressing health challenges, groundbreaking research, and inspiring local initiatives shaping the future of healthcare in Africa. Informative, timely, and rooted in trusted sources, this podcast keeps you connected to the pulse of Africa’s health landscape.

The Global Gratitude Show After graduating from American University in Washington, DC, with BA’s in Political Science and International Studies, Tania Anderson was hired as an international flight attendant by the iconic Pan American World Airways which set her on a course to explore the world’s continents. After Pan Am’s bankruptcy, Tania’s airline career expanded even more, to fly VIP charters, the White House press corps, convicts, film crews, refugees, military personnel, religious pilgrims, and medical transplant teams…..”everything” Tania admits, “Except rendition flights...

In this "meticulously researched" account (New York Times Book Review), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic.

Abortion pills have made safe abortion possible for millions of people around the world, even in the most restrictive circumstances. Sydney Calkin illustrates the profound, transformative promise of these pills—which are safe, effective, and responsible for a sharp decline in maternal mortality. This timely book demonstrates that the widespread practice of self-managed medication abortion makes it more difficult for countries to enforce oppressive abortion laws and less willing to do so.

In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders. The world's first urban Ebola outbreak quickly overwhelmed the global health system and threatened to kill millions. In an increasingly interconnected world in which everyone is one or two flights away from New York or London or Beijing, even a localized epidemic can become a pandemic. Ebola's spread sounded global alarms that the next killer outbreak is right around the corner.

From a neurologist who diagnosed her own brain tumor, Invisible No More empowers patients with chronic and complex illnesses to take their health into their own hands. While Covid-19 has brought increased attention to chronic and complex illnesses, these conditions have impacted millions...