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French Ambassador for Global Health Anne-Claire Amprou: A Big Historical Moment
Jennifer Kates, KFF: “Not a great time to be asking for lots of money… everything has changed.”
CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Sandro Galea
Noam Unger, CSIS: The urgency of health adaptation? “It’s self-evident but requires massive changes.”
Dr. Andrés G. (Willy) Lescano, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia: "A Perfect Storm Scenario"
The CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Vanessa Kerry and Minister Austin Demby
Donald G. McNeil, The Wisdom of Plagues
The CommonHealth Live! WHO Senior Advisor Dr. Scott Dowell on the Global Health Emergency Corps
Dr. Sandro Galea, Boston University SPH, ‘Within Reason’
Dr. Joseph Majkut, Director, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change: COP28 is “a punctuation mark.”
The CommonHealth Live! IRC President David Miliband: A New Crisis Landscape
Dr. Yanzhong Huang: the need for a US-China détente on global health
Senator Thomas Daschle: the decline of U.S. vaccination levels is a national security threat
The CommonHealth Live! Ambassador John Nkengasong: World AIDS Day 2023: A Journey of Hope
Heidi Larson, Chair and Co-Founder of the Global Listening Project: “The people part of the Covid experience was our Achilles heel”
Jenelle Krishnamoorthy, Vice President and Head of Global Public Policy, Corporate Affairs, Merck & Co.: “Driving Meaningful and Sustained Progress on AMR
Dr. Dylan George, Director, CDC Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA): “We are really looking at the past, when we look up at the sky.”
Dr. Suerie Moon, Geneva Graduate Institute: “Treaties will not solve every problem.”
Leonard Rubenstein, JHU: recent conversations in Kyiv
Dr. Eric Goosby: The M72 vaccine could be a breakthrough. “It is a moment.”
Kate Dodson, UN Foundation and Nellie Bristol, CSIS Senior Associate: “Process got in the way of ambition in New York.”
What do we make of 2023’s summer of climate shocks?
Dr. Scott Dowell, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: “I am optimistic.”
Dr. Celine Gounder, KFF Health News: “Most people do not believe the lies or the truth.”
Morrison & Simoneau, ‘The Worst is Over – Now What?'
Sera Young, Northwestern University: “Accountability is probably the most powerful tool that we have”
Anuradha Gupta, Sabin Vaccine Institute: ‘Whether a country is poor or has a large population, progress is possible’
Gary Edson, Covid Collaborative: “PEPFAR is a pawn in the culture wars.”
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT: “Our attention has turned.”
Dr. Mitch Wolfe: CDC regional offices are inextricably linked to security.
Helen Branswell, STAT: “In the spring of 2022, I thought my head would explode.”
Dan Diamond, Washington Post: “Easier to play offense than defense”
David Kramer, George W. Bush Institute: “The most successful global health program in history”
Jeremy Konyndyk, Refugees International: Opponents of public health are winning.
Matthew Goodman, CSIS: a dramatic G7 Hiroshima Summit
Adam Havey, Emergent BioSolutions: “Lead with the facts.”
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House Covid Response Coordinator: Pandemic wartime is over, the “great unwinding” is fully on.
Joe Grogan: “Worried about the war that we are waging against innovators who have the audacity to be successful.”
Thomas Bollyky, CFR: The roots of the US Covid catastrophe—“a syndemic of politics and race.”
Professor Heidi Larson, co-founder of The Global Listening Project: "The only way you're going to be relevant is if you listen."
Sachiko Imoto, SVP, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)—the alignment of Japan-U.S. health security priorities
Minister Dan Jørgensen of Denmark: “Imagine a Pandemic Where You’re Not Able to Treat the Disease Because of Resistance”
Prof. Victor Cha: Unpacking North Korea’s isolation
Professor Jennifer Nuzzo: “I am glad we are having this conversation” on school closures.
Admiral Raquel Bono (ret.): At the pandemic’s front face in Washington State
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT: “You cannot keep a raccoon dog as a pet.”
Goodbye, Coronavirus Crisis Update. Hello, The CommonHealth!
Sam Radwan, Enhance International “Is this the calm before the storm?”
Dr. Michael Osterholm, CIDRAP, Univ. Minnesota: Fighting Omicron “like trying to stop the wind.”
Dr. Scott Rivkees, former Florida Secretary of Health: What happened behind the scenes?
Dr. Chris Murray, IHME, "…we are in for a harder spell…”
Dr. Scott Kennedy, CSIS -- “Give us our lives back!”
Dr. Yanzhong Huang: China’s calculations “puzzling”
Dr. Kristina Box and Dr. Judy Monroe, the Governor of Indiana’s Commission on Public Health, “The buffalo runs into the storm.”
Dr. Raj Panjabi, National Security Council, on the new U.S. National Biodefense Strategy and Implementation Plan
Dr. Ashish Jha, White House Covid Response Coordinator: “You can tackle the big stuff.”
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, White House Deputy Coordinator—update on monkeypox response
Dr. Anthony Fauci: The Future Outlook for COVID-19
Dr. Krishna Udayakumar: “The world has moved on.”
Dr. Rochelle Walensky: A Fireside Chat, at CSIS
Dr. Chris Murray, IHME on Moving Forward Amid Uncertainty and Complacency
Dan Diamond, Washington Post, on Monkeypox: ”The Calendar Is Not Our Friend.”
Dr. Marci Nielsen: “With COVID, Public Health Is in Front of Us”
Dr. Celine Gounder: "On Monkeypox: It's not Surprising That We're Stumbling Again"
Dr. Margaret Bourdeaux: “Meeting People Where They’re at Is Very, Very, Very Powerful."
Apoorva Mandavilli, NYT: On Monkeypox - "We Shouldn't Be Alarmed, but We Should Be Concerned."
Dr. Jeffrey Gold: “The Communities We Serve Have to Be Our North Star.”
Dr. Deborah Birx: "We Prepared for the Wrong Kind of Pandemic"
North Korea: A Covid-19 Disaster Unlike Any Other
Yana Panfilova: “We Are so Young, but a Lot of People Have This Belief That We Can Change Our Country”
Yasmeen Abutaleb: "No One has Succeeded in Predicting What is Going to Happen."
Dr. Dylan George: “We Need to Build an Internal Team That Can Move at a Moment’s Notice”
Dr. Larry Gostin: “Should We Allow One Federal District Court Judge to Issue a Nationwide Injunction?”
Dr. Yanzhong Huang: "What is Happening in Shanghai Has its Impacts Felt All Over the World."
Dr. Beth Cameron: "If We Don't Prepare Now, We are Going to Get Caught Flat-Footed by the Crises of the Future"
Dan Diamond: "Each Covid Coordinator is Inheriting a Better Situation Than the Person Who Came Before"
DoD Mini Series: Matt Hepburn “Let’s Take Pandemics Off the Table”
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank: “Culture Is Hard… It Only Changes Slowly Over Time”
Live From Munich: Dr. Richard Hatchett “Pandemic Preparedness Needs to Be Viewed as a Security Challenge”
Scott Kirby: “It's About Making Real Change”
Live From Munich: Tom Bollyky “We Can't Do This on Our Own.”
Live From Munich: Dr. Jeremy Farrar “We Must Not Be Caught Vulnerable Again”
Live From Munich: Dr. Seth Berkley “It is a Security Issue”
Live From Munich: Dr. John Nkengasong “The Concepts are Global, But the Practice is Local”
John Barry: “The Guy Who Focuses at the End Will Win”
Drs. Kristina Box and Judy Monroe – The Indiana Governor’s Public Health Review Commission
DoD Mini-Series: Major General Paul Friedrichs — Covid-19 and the Department of Defense
Dr. Peter Kilmarx: Distrust in Public Health in America “Is One of Those Wicked Problems”
Dr. Michael Osterholm: “Don’t Be Surprised When You Are Surprised.”
Dr. Chris Murray: “I Have Not Yet Received an Invite From Tucker… or Joe Rogan”
Dr. Anthony Fauci: “Omicron Will Ultimately Find Everybody”
Dr. Gigi Gronvall: Antigen Tests “The Hottest Christmas Toy”
Dr. Ashish Jha: “Humanize Yourself… I Live in a Pandemic Too.”
Philip Zelikow: a Covid-19 National Commission is the Bridge We Need — Now
Dr. Richard Lessells: Omicron Seen Up Close in South Africa
Dr. Taison Bell: “You Tend to Find Yourself Back Home.”
Cary Funk, Pew Research Center: “It Can Be Confusing”
Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg on Her Memorial to America’s Pandemic Loss: ‘In America: Remember'
Dr. Richard Brennan, WHO Emergency Operations: The “Delicate Dance” with the Taliban
Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo: An Inbox Full of Dangerous Threats