S1 E13: Global Health Security and Diseases of Poverty

This episode explores global health security and diseases of poverty in developing nations with special guest Dr. Tara Bracken, PhD who is a global health advocate supporting global malaria programs. Tara obtained a doctorate in Infectious Diseases from the University of Georgia Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, specializing in the immunology and pathogenesis of malaria in pregnancy. Tara has previously aided communications and advocacy efforts around vaccine hesitancy and neglected tropical diseases at the Sabin Vaccine Institute. In this episode Dr. Bracken discusses diseases of poverty such as malaria and other communicable diseases such as Covid-19 which affect global health security. This episode also explores mitigation strategies for communities and for government agencies to explore in order to decrease the burden of communicable diseases within the population.