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25 Years Since the Anthrax Attacks: Where Are We Now?
Drs. Armand Sprecher and Adi Nadimpalli, MSF: on-the-ground in the eastern DRC Ebola crisis
Dr. Megan Ranney, Dean, Yale School of Public Health: On 9/11: "That time set the foundation for where we are today."
Using Drones to Expand Healthcare Delivery
Monisha Ashok, Director of Health Investments, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC): DFC's "strategy refresh" elevates health as a priority.
Hayley Severance, NTI: The newly released Africa Health Security Index
Aurélia Nguyen, CEPI: "Vaccines will be part of the solution" to the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak
Ken Isaacs, Samaritan’s Purse: "What they need are Ebola fighters."
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Executive Director, WHO Health Emergencies Programme: Ebola outbreak in Ituri, Congo "a perfect storm."
CommonHealth Live! with Rep. Ami Bera
Dr. Gerald Parker: New World Screwworm arrives —"sometimes there is bureaucratic inertia."
Jamie Bay Nishi, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH): “We can’t have the same three CDC epidemiologists managing the world’s crises.”
Declan Walsh, NYT Africa Correspondent: "It all boils down to two factors, conflict and gold."
Dr. Salim Abdool Karim, Chair, Africa CDC Emergency Consultative Group: "Congolese doctors know how to treat Ebola patients."
Strengthening Vaccine Production and Access to Routine Immunizations in Sub-Saharan Africa | The CommonHealth Live!
Dr. Jeffrey Gold, President of the University of Nebraska: “Containing outbreaks is always in our national interest.”
Professor Rebecca Katz, Georgetown University: the Health Security Operations Center during the FIFA World Cup
Professor Paul Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University: the release of the Lancet Commission report on health, conflict and forced displacement
Priya Basu, the Pandemic Fund: "Countries are not sitting on the fence. They are lining up."
A Conversation with Dr. Sania Nishtar, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance | The Futures Summit
The Lenacapavir Partnership and the Evolution of U.S. Foreign Assistance | The Futures Summit
Dr. Eli Cahan: “Human beings are wired for stories.”
Dr. Benjamin Park, CDC: speed is of utmost importance
Expanding Access to Immunizations in the Americas | The CommonHealth Live!
Dan Diamond, Washington Post: “A big hole that no one knows how to fill.”
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times: Reflections on HHS Secretary RFK Jr’s tenure
The Resurgence of Measles in the United States | CommonHealth Live!
Emily Gibbons, Gilead Sciences: the lenacapavir partnership
Book Event: Deployed by Kevin De Cock
Andi L. Fristedt, Parkinson’s Foundation: “The data (on paraquat) is clear.”
Keith Poulsen, Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory: “Emergency response is hard.”
Measles Outbreaks and Elimination in North America | The CommonHealth Live!
Jane Halton: the launch of CEPI 3.0
John-Arne Røttingen, CEO, Wellcome Trust: “The system has changed—and changed forever.”
Keith Humphreys, Stanford University: China’s supply shock of fentanyl and chemical precursors
Amb. (ret) Karl Hofmann, Health X Partners: “Not everyone curtails their job in Paris.”
Dr. Chris Murray, IHME: The “Commission of Commissions.”
Prevention Intention: Wafaa El-Sadr on People and Persistence in HIV Research
Prevention Intention: Linda-Gail Bekker on HIV Prevention with Purpose
Erika Elvander, former U.S. Health Attache in Beijing: “It behooves us to find the common ground.”
Marian Wentworth, MSH: "I have been working since I was 13."
Rep. Adam Smith on Engaging China
Dr. Rick Brennan: “This is not good for the American soul.”
Fair Doses: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity
Keizo Takemi, recent Japan Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare: "I am quite lucky."
Dr. Debra Houry, former Chief Medical Officer and Dep. Director, CDC: “He’s becoming dangerous to the health of our nation.”
Peter Piot, LSHTM: “A brilliant coalition” essential to success
The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics
Dr. Celine Gounder, KFF Health News: "Silence was paralysis"
CommonHealth Live! with PAHO’s Dr. Jarbas Barbosa
Dr. Andriy Klepikov, Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine): "We are still standing."
Dr. Heidi Larson, LSHTM: “People are struggling to make sense of it.”
The CommonHealth Live! on Financing Global Health in 2025
Dr. Ken Staley, Palantir: “We have a lot of cool stuff on the horizon.”
Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics): “What we are lacking is the investments to move the needle.”
Michael Osterholm, Univ. Minnesota CIDRAP: the Vaccine Integrity Project
Richard Hatchett, CEPI: “Access does not just happen.”
Joe Grogan: “The societal divisions that Covid opened were terrifying.”
Fabrizio Carboni, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): "I had to face what it meant to be on a battlefield."
Takeaways from Gavi Replenishment | The CommonHealth Live!
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT health policy correspondent: HHS Secretary Kennedy may run for President in 2028
Helen Branswell, Stat News infectious diseases and global health reporter: “Is the solution making it harder for individuals to get vaccines?”
Dr. Kate O’Brien, WHO: “The success of vaccines is that, basically, nothing happens.”
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO: “We would welcome a dialogue with the (Trump) administration.”
Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, former FDA Commissioner: “I hope we can come together around shared goals.”
Dr. Jennifer Kates, KFF: “Congress is fed up with blank check forever.”
Measles Outbreaks in 2025 with Dr. Adam Ratner and Dr. Ephrem T. Lemango | The CommonHealth Live!
CommonHealth Live! with Republic of Indonesia Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin
Dr. Stephanie Psaki, former Assistant to the President and White House Global Health Security Coordinator: “We are wandering in the desert.”
Maj. Gen. Paul Friedrichs (ret.): “I cannot recall anything similar to this.”
Dr. Tom Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives: “We are now flying blind.”
Tom Bollyky, CFR: China will not fill the gap “as the dominant actor in global health security exits the stage.”
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, Your Local Epidemiologist: Death threats and thick skin are “part of this gig.”
Dr. Jeffrey Gold, President, University of Nebraska system: lately it’s been “a day-by-day, week-by-week course adjustment.”
Carmen Paun, Politico “It’s been astonishing to watch” USAID dismantled
Measles Outbreak Implications
Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron: “It has been a blizzard... It’s a staggering reality”
Dr. Vanessa Kerry: "Health is a Cornerstone of Global Security"
CommonHealth Live! with Assistant Secretary Loyce Pace
Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley, President of Vassar College: “We’re ready.”
Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times science and global health reporter: RFK Jr. “damned by his own history.”
Dr. Heidi Larson, LSHTM: "Public health cannot rest on its laurels."
Director Mandy Cohen: The Future of the CDC
CommonHealth Live! with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Rahul Gupta
Dan Diamond, National Health Reporter, Washington Post: “Everything feels grey to me...”
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times: "Humility is a word I hear a lot in public health."
Michael Merson, Professor Emeritus, Duke University: “We need a plan.”
CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Hanan Balkhy
CommonHealth Live! with Dr. John Balbus
Javier Guzman, Center for Global Development: “Yes it was successful, but...”
Dr. Michael Osterholm, Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), U. Minnesota: We need “a pretty damn healthy dose of humility.”
Nidhi Bouri, Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID Bureau for Global Health: on mpox, anti-microbial resistance, Marburg virus in Rwanda, and money headaches
Dr. Jerome Adams, 20th U.S. Surgeon General: “I was the first Twitter Surgeon General.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD: ‘On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service’
Dr. Megan Ranney, Dean, Yale School of Public Health: We have the public health tools to tackle America’s epidemic of firearm injuries and deaths.
The Private Sector, Civic Space, and Global Health Advocacy on the Eve of AIDS 2024
Len Rubenstein, Johns Hopkins University: “The policy is hand-wringing… Total impunity.”
Dr. Raj Panjabi: we need “biological humility”
Dr. Angela Apeagyei & Dr. Chris Murray, IHME: “Real risks on the horizon” for global health