Best Céline Gounder Podcasts (2025)

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BONUS / WORLD Channel Presents: Silence in Sikeston 26:28

7M ago26:28

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In 1942, Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a mob. Nearly 80 years later, Denzel Taylor was killed by police in the same community. The deaths of these two Black fathers tell a story about the public health consequences of racism and systemic bias. Meet residents determined to live healthier lives after generatio…

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BONUS / WORLD Channel Presents: Silence in Sikeston 26:28

7M ago26:28

26:28

In 1942, Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a mob. Nearly 80 years later, Denzel Taylor was killed by police in the same community. The deaths of these two Black fathers tell a story about the public health consequences of racism and systemic bias. Meet residents determined to live healthier lives after generatio…

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S2E8 / The Scars of Smallpox 16:13

1+ y ago16:13

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In 1975, smallpox eradication workers in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, rushed to a village in the south of the country called Kuralia. They were abuzz and the journey was urgent because they thought they just might be going to document the very last case of variola major, a deadly strain of the virus. When they arrived, they met a toddler, Rahi…

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S2E7 / What Good Is a Vaccine When There Is No Rice? 18:58

1+ y ago18:58

18:58

The 1970s was the deadliest decade in the “entire history of Bangladesh,” said environmental historian Iftekhar Iqbal. A deadly cyclone, a bloody liberation war, and famine triggered waves of migration. As people moved throughout the country, smallpox spread with them. In Episode 7 of “Eradicating Smallpox,” Shohrab, a man who was displaced by the …

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S2E6 / Bodies Remember What Was Done to Them 20:32

1+ y ago20:32

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Global fears of overpopulation in the ’60s and ’70s helped fuel India’s campaign to slow population growth. Health workers tasked to encourage family planning were dispatched throughout the country and millions of people were sterilized: some voluntarily, some for a monetary reward, and some through force. This violent and coercive campaign — and t…

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S2E5 / The Tata Way 24:27

1+ y ago24:27

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In spring 1974, over a dozen smallpox outbreaks sprang up throughout the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Determined to find the source of the cases, American smallpox eradication worker Larry Brilliant and a local partner, Zaffar Hussain, launched an investigation. The answer: Each outbreak could be traced back to Tatanagar, a city run by one of In…

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Live Web Event: Thinking Big in Public Health, Inspired by the End of Smallpox 0:48

2y ago0:48

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At noon ET on Thursday Sept. 14, Epidemic host Céline Gounder and her guests will come together for a live web event. Click here to register for the event. In Conversation With Host Céline Gounder: Helene D. Gayle, a physician and an epidemiologist, is president of Spelman College. She is a board member of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and pa…

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S2E4 / Speedboat Epidemiology 21:32

2y ago21:32

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Shahidul Haq Khan, a Bangladeshi health worker, and Tim Miner, an American with the World Health Organization, worked together on a smallpox eradication team in Bangladesh in the early 1970s. The team was based on a hospital ship and traveled by speedboat to track down cases of smallpox from Barishal to Faridpur to Patuakhali. Every person who agre…

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S2E3 / Zero Pox! 18:43

2y ago18:43

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In 1973, Bhakti Dastane arrived in Bihar, India, to join the smallpox eradication campaign. She was a year out of medical school and had never cared for anyone with the virus. She believed she was offering something miraculous, saving people from a deadly disease. But some locals did not see it that way. Episode 3 of “Eradicating Smallpox” explores…

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S2E2 / Do You Know Dutta? 24:03

2y ago24:03

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By the mid-1970s, India’s smallpox eradication campaign had been grinding for over a decade. But the virus was still spreading beyond control. It was time to take a new, more targeted approach. This strategy was called “search and containment.” Teams of eradication workers visited communities across India to track down active cases of smallpox. Whe…

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S2E1 / The Goddess of Smallpox 22:34

2y ago22:34

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In the mid-’60s, the national campaign to eradicate smallpox in India was underway, but the virus was still widespread throughout the country. At the time, Dinesh Bhadani was a small boy living in Gaya, a city in the state of Bihar. In his community many people believed smallpox was divine, sent by the Hindu goddess Shitala Mata. In Bihar people ha…

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Trailer: Epidemic Season 2 — Eradicating Smallpox 1:57

2y ago1:57

1:57

"Eradicating Smallpox” is a journey to South Asia, the site of the last days of variola major smallpox. Many epidemiologists and global health leaders thought that ending smallpox was impossible. They were wrong. Dedicated public health workers made it happen. “Eradicating Smallpox” is an eight-episode, limited series amplifying their voices. Host …

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S4E12 / Indigenous and Invisible in the Big City / Esther Lucero, Dr. Patrick Rock, Douglas Miller, Richard Wright 26:26

2+ y ago26:26

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Over 70% of Indigenous people in the United States live in urban areas. But urban Indian health makes up less than 2% of the Indian Health Service’s annual budget. While enrolled members of federally recognized tribes can access the Indian Health Service or tribally run health care on their reservations, Indigenous people who live in cities can fin…

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Introducing: The Bag - A show about Sports, Money, and Making It 1:34

3y ago1:34

1:34

Ever wonder how some teams can seemingly do everything wrong and still generate record-profits? Or how some athletes end up going broke? Or why suddenly, everyone in pro sports seems to be obsessed with cryptocurrency? Former NFL running back (and Dancing With The Stars champ) Rashad Jennings has teamed up with award-winning journalist Lindsay McCo…

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S4E11 / Climate Displacement, Cultural Resilience / Lanor Curole, Thomas Dardar Jr., Shanondora Billiot, Daniel Lewerenz 22:11

3y ago22:11

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Lanor Curole is a member of the United Houma Nation. She grew up in Golden Meadow, a small bayou town in Southern Louisiana. The impacts of repetitive flooding in the area forced her to move farther north. Louisiana’s coastal wetlands lose about 16 square miles of land each year. This land loss, pollution from the 2010 BP oil spill, and lingering d…

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S4E10 / Stewardship Over Biodata Rebuilds Trust / Dakotah Lane & Krystal Tsosie 19:31

3y ago19:31

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Mending broken trust may be a first step for investigators who want to increase the participation of Native people in medical research. “There's such a history of extractive research in Indigenous communities, such that ‘research’ and ‘science’ are sometimes dirty words,” said Navajo geneticist and bioethicist Krystal Tsosie. Poor communication and…

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S4E9 / Two Paths, Two Future Physicians / Ashton Glover Gatewood, Victor Lopez-Carmen, Mary Owen 25:39

3y ago25:39

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Correction: This episode was updated on July 27, 2022, to accurately characterize Dr. Charles Eastman’s academic milestone. In 1890, Dr. Charles Eastman became one of the first Native people to graduate from medical school in the United States. Today, one of his descendants, Victor Lopez-Carmen, is a third-year student at Harvard Medical School. He…

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S4E8 / Tribal Values, Tribal Justice / Abby Abinanti, Ursula Running Bear, Blythe George 22:45

3y ago22:45

22:45

Abby Abinanti is chief judge of the Yurok Tribal Court and a member of the tribe. While previously working in the California court system, she was discouraged and angered by the number of cases in which Indigenous families were separated or tribal members were removed from their communities because of nontribal foster care placements or incarcerati…

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S4E7 / Fighting for Reproductive Sovereignty / Rachael Lorenzo, Sarah Deer, Sunny Clifford, Elizabeth Rink 26:27

3y ago26:27

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Rachael Lorenzo works to address reproductive health disparities in Native communities. In 2018, they founded Indigenous Women Rising, a fund that provides financial help for Native people seeking an abortion. Historically, the federal government has restricted Native people’s reproductive autonomy. Between 1973 and 1976, more than 3,500 Native peo…

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S4E6 / Right to Water / Ernestine Chaco, Brianna Johnson, George McGraw, Jeanette Wolfley, Zoel Zohnnie 29:46

3y ago29:46

29:46

In 2020, during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Zoel Zohnnie was feeling restless. Growing up on the Navajo Nation, he said, the importance of caring for family and community was instilled at an early age. So Zohnnie wanted to find a way to help members of his tribe. One need in particular stood out: water. American Indian and Alaska Na…

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S4E5 / Power to Police Perpetrators / Lisa Brunner, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Alfred Urbina 29:43

3+ y ago29:43

29:43

Editor’s Note: This episode includes descriptions of violence that some might find disturbing. Intimate partner violence, also known as domestic violence, can take the form of physical, sexual, or psychological abuse. If you or someone you know is experiencing intimate partner violence, help is available. StrongHearts Native Helpline provides cultu…

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S4E4 / Abandoned Mines, Abandoned Health – Part II / Linda Evers, Phil Harrison, Larry King, Judy Pasternak, Ben Ray Luján 32:34

3+ y ago32:34

32:34

People living on and near the Navajo Nation have been grappling with the legacy of 40-plus years of uranium mining. According to EPA cleanup reports and congressional hearings, mines were abandoned, radioactive waste was left out in the open, and groundwater was contaminated. This episode is the second half of a two-part series about uranium mining…

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S4E3 / Abandoned Mines, Abandoned Health - Part I / Amber Crotty, Linda Evers, Phil Harrison, Larry King, Judy Pasternak, Edith Hood, Cipriano Lucero 34:39

3+ y ago34:39

34:39

On the morning of July 16, 1979, a dam broke at a uranium mine near Church Rock, New Mexico, releasing 1,100 tons of radioactive waste and pouring 94 million gallons of contaminated water into the Rio Puerco. Toxic substances flowed downstream for nearly 100 miles, according to a report to a congressional committee that year. In the 1970s, uranium …

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Episode 12: Cytopathology 36:18

3+ y ago36:18

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Eva Wojcik is Chair of the Department of Pathology and Helen M. and Raymond M. Galvin Professor of Pathology at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA. Dana Razzano is a current GI/Liver Pathology Fellow at Stanford University, California, USA, and completed a Cytopathology fellowship at Yale University, Connecticut, U…

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Episode 11: Molecular Pathology 35:16

3+ y ago35:16

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Ann Moyer is Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Manuel Salto-Tellez is Professor of Molecular Pathology at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Professor of Integrated Pathology at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, UK.…

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S4E2 / Decolonizing the Diet / Reagan Wytsalucy, Roy Talker, Martin Reinhardt 30:37

3+ y ago30:37

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Reagan Wytsalucy was looking for a lost orchard. Martin Reinhardt wanted to know more about and better understand the taste of Indigenous foods before European colonization in North America. They followed different paths, but their goals were similar: to reclaim their food traditions to improve the health and vitality of their communities. Native f…

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Episode 10: Hematopathology 31:29

3+ y ago31:29

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Akanksha Gupta is a hematopathologist with a hematopathology fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA. Rashmi Kanagal-Shamanna is Associate Professor of Hematopathology and Director of the Microarray Facility at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.…

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Episode 9: Clinical Chemistry and Biomedical Science 36:23

3+ y ago36:23

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Leanne O’Connor is a Biomedical Scientist in Clinical Biochemistry at Western Health and Social Care Trust, Enniskillen, UK. Gareth McKeeman is Consultant Clinical Scientist at Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, UK.By Leanne O’Connor, Gareth McKeeman, Michael Schubert

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S4E1 / It's Up to You / Sophina Calderon, Ernestine Chaco, Jill Jim 31:44

3+ y ago31:44

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Travel to the forests outside the Grand Canyon to follow Dr. Sophina Calderon and other Navajo Nation leaders as covid-19 tests the Diné people. Roughly 30% of the homes on the Navajo Nation rely on wood-burning stoves for heat. Many of those households haul wood from nearby forests. That’s what Calderon was doing when she realized the pandemic’s r…

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Episode 8: Pediatric and Perinatal Pathology 40:38

3+ y ago40:38

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Oscar Lopez-Nuñez is Assistant Professor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio, USA. Miguel Reyes-Mugica is Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pathology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.By Oscar Lopez-Nuñez, Miguel Reyes-Mugica, Olivia Gaskill

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Episode 7: Histopathology II 23:15

3+ y ago23:15

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Mei Lin Bissonnette is Clinical Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and Director of the BC Provincial Renal Pathology Laboratory, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Hayley Pincott is Associate Practitioner in the Oral Pathology and Microbiology department at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Card…

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Episode 6: Histopathology, Part 1 29:27

3+ y ago29:27

29:27

Rajendra Singh is Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, Director of Dermatopathology, and Associate Chair of Digital Pathology at Northwell Health, New York, USA. He is also the Founder of PathPresenter Corporation. He can be found on Twitter at @mydermpath and @pathpresenter. Melanie Bois is Consultant in the Division of Anatomic Pathology and A…

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Trailer: American Diagnosis Season 4 — Rezilience 3:30

3+ y ago3:30

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In the years leading up to the pandemic, Dr. Celine Gounder, the host of the EPIDEMIC and American Diagnosis podcasts, had the opportunity to care for patients part-time at several Indian Health Service facilities around the United States. Working on the “rez,” one theme came up over and over: resilience. In this latest season of American Diagnosis…

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Trailer: American Diagnosis Season 4 — Rezilience 3:30

3+ y ago3:30

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In the years leading up to the pandemic, Dr. Celine Gounder, the host of the American Diagnosis and EPIDEMIC podcasts, had the opportunity to care for patients part-time at several Indian Health Service facilities around the United States. Working on the “rez,” one theme came up over and over: resilience. In this latest season of American Diagnosis…

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Episode 5: Veterinary Pathology 34:34

3+ y ago34:34

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Nicola Parry is Head of Pathology at the University of Surrey’s School of Veterinary Medicine, Surrey, UK. Chiara Palmieri is Associate Professor in Veterinary Pathology at The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.By Nicola Parry, Chiara Palmieri, Olivia Gaskill

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Episode 4: Immunology and Infectious Disease 36:42

3+ y ago36:42

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Céline Gounder is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and Attending Physician at Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, USA. She hosts the podcasts “American Diagnosis” and “Epidemic” and is CEO and Founder of Just Human Productions. She can be found on Twitter at @celinegounder. Michael Shurin is Directo…

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Episode 3: Forensic Pathology 37:50

3+ y ago37:50

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Marianne Hamel is a Forensic Pathologist at Jersey Shore Forensics, New Jersey, USA. Nicole Jackson is Associate Medical Examiner and Physician at King County Medical Examiner’s Office, Seattle, Washington, USA.By Marianne Hamel, Nicole Jackson, Michael Schubert

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Episode 2: Pathologists’ Assistants 27:06

3+ y ago27:06

27:06

Michael Desimone is an ASCP-certified pathologists’ assistant at Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and at Northwell Health, New York, USA. He can be found on Twitter at @diseasehunter. Dennis Strenk is a pathologists’ assistant at Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He hosts the podcast “People of…

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Episode 1: Microbiology 30:00

3+ y ago30:00

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Bobbi Pritt is Professor of Pathology and Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Elaine Cloutman-Green is Consultant Clinical Scientist in Infection Prevention and Control/Lead Healthcare Scientist at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Tr…

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The Pathology Grand Tour 0:54

3+ y ago0:54

0:54

Do you know your way around the lab – and what your colleagues do day in and day out? Join us on The Pathology Grand Tour to hear about the work of pathologists and laboratory medicine professionals in a wide range of disciplines – and how their work interacts with yours!By Michael Schubert, Olivia Gaskill

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S1E80 / Vaccine Joy / Andy Slavitt & Celine Gounder 31:59

4y ago31:59

31:59

"It's a really interesting question: how do we get closure in this pandemic? I think a lot of people have hurt and loss that's not been acknowledged. I think acknowledging that loss is very important." - Andy Slavitt In this final episode of season 1 of EPIDEMIC, we look back on the coronavirus pandemic and how we can move forward with one of our f…

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Monday Roundup 06/21--Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths (EPIDEMIC) 30:00

4y ago30:00

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EPIDEMIC w/ Dr. Celine Gounder: Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths Thanks for listening to the Monday Roundup, and for sticking with KZSU! KZSU News will return in Fall 2021, but you can always follow us on Twitter @kzsunews.

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S1E79 / Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths / Andrea Edlow, Stephanie Gaw, Alice Lu-Culligan, Leena Mithal, Steve Stecklow 23:13

4y ago23:13

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"Pregnant women who have SARS-CoV-2 are more likely to be admitted to the ICU, to need a ventilator and are more likely to die than women of the same age who are not pregnant. Pregnancy definitely makes getting COVID-19 much more dangerous." -Andrea Edlow Some of the most persistent myths about coronavirus and the vaccines developed to fight it hav…

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Monday Roundup 06/14--Caregiving as Infrastructure (EPIDEMIC) 30:00

4y ago30:00

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EPIDEMIC w/ Dr. Celine Gounder: Caregiving as Infrastructure The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet, but it’s also the only industrialized country that doesn't offer childcare and paid leave for parents and caregivers, and the pandemic has made the problem even worse. Dr. Celine Gounder speaks to women who are helping bring attent…

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S1E78 / Caregiving as Infrastructure / Stephanie Coontz, Julie Morita, Erika Moritsugu, Sarah Murphy 24:00

4y ago24:00

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"The pandemic has given us an opportunity to finally change this and if we don't, the economic impact from the fallout of women in the workforce is going to be devastating." -Erika Moritsugu The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost and effort of …

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S1E77 / Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide? / Albert Fox Cahn, Lawrence Gostin, Fatima Hassan, JP Pollak 24:09

4y ago24:09

24:09

"When you're building a system like a vaccine passport you're potentially excluding millions of people because they don't have this thing that once was optional, but has now become indispensable." -Albert Fox Cahn How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet …

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Monday Roundup 05/31--Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity 30:00

4y ago30:00

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EPIDEMIC w/ Dr. Celine Gounder: Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity So far, most vaccine production has focused on supplying wealthy nations in Europe and the United States but places like Africa are in dire need of life saving vaccines. Dr. Celine Gounder speaks to a public health advocate who is pushing for initi…

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S1E76 / Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity / John Nkengasong, James Krellenstein, Chelsea Clinton, Peter Hotez 24:11

4y ago24:11

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"You can't fight scarcity with scarcity. The only way out of the vaccine problem is by making a lot more of it." -James Krellenstein India is the world's largest supplier of vaccines but the government there suspended the export of all COVID-19 vaccines after a devastating outbreak this spring. This is just the latest reason why global health leade…

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Monday Roundup 05/24--Job Market Growth (JSEN) + Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents (EPIDEMIC) 30:00

4y ago30:00

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EPIDEMIC w/ Dr. Celine Gounder: Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents Vaccines are now widely available in the United States. But for the rest of the world--where vaccines are still largely unavailable--the pandemic is now worse than ever. So far, much of the discussion around vaccine supply to the developing world has focused on d…

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S1E75 / Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents / Chris Morten, Prithi Krishtel, Rohit Malpani 26:22

4y ago26:22

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"It's a triumph of science and engineering that we now have multiple effective COVID vaccines. We just need to find the political will to invest a bit more money and deploy them around the world." -Chris Morten President Joe Biden said the United States would be the world's "arsenal of vaccines" but critics say current plans to donate 80 million do…

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