Best Opiod Podcasts (2026)

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Prevention Intention: Wafaa El-Sadr on People and Persistence in HIV Research 37:47

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In the second episode of the Prevention Intention mini-series, Katherine speaks with Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor in Epidemiology at Columbia University and the director of ICAP. They discuss El-Sadr’s formative experience treating AIDS patients in New York City in the early 1980s, as the global HIV epidemic began to emerge; her decision to …

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Hongqiao Fu and Tiange Chen on health taxes in China (in Chinese) 15:44

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傅虹桥和陈天歌与吴卉讨论征收烟草、酒精和含糖饮料健康税对中国健康、宏观经济和财政的积极影响。 Click here to read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(25)00256-7/fulltext Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.com/thelancetgroup https://facebook.com/thelancetmedicaljournal https://l…

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Hongqiao Fu and Tiange Chen on health taxes in China 16:34

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Hongqiao Fu and Tiange Chen speak with Hui Wu about the health, macroeconomic, and fiscal potential of health taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages in China. Click here to read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(25)00256-7/fulltext Continue this conversation on social! Follow us toda…

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Prevention Intention: Linda-Gail Bekker on HIV Prevention with Purpose 39:05

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In the first episode of the Prevention Intention mini-series, a series featuring conversations with leading female HIV clinical researchers, Katherine speaks with Linda-Gail Bekker, a medical doctor and director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the University of Cape Town. They discuss Bekker's decision to focus her work on HIV as well as her invo…

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Erika Elvander, former U.S. Health Attache in Beijing: “It behooves us to find the common ground.” 39:31

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Erika Elvander served her country as a federal career health diplomat for 27 years, including as the U.S. Health Attache in Beijing from the spring 2021 until the end of 2024. Her Asia passion ignited while a student in Hong Kong and traveler to Beijing in the late 1980s. And carried forward for the following decades. As Health Attache in Beijing d…

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Yao Yao on healthy ageing in China ( in Chinese) 13:37

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姚尧与吴卉探讨关于中国健康老龄化的研究发现以及促进健康长寿的性别差异策略。 Click here to listen to the English version of this podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1793453/episodes/18130326 Click here to read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(25)00253-1/fulltext Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet…

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Yao Yao on healthy ageing in China 13:58

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Dr. Yao Yao speaks to Hui Wu about healthy ageing in China and sex-specific approaches to promoting healthy longevity. Click here to read the full article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(25)00253-1/fulltext Continue this conversation on social! Follow us today at... https://thelancet.bsky.social/ https://instagram.c…

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Marian Wentworth, MSH: "I have been working since I was 13." 38:16

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Marian Wentworth, President & CEO, Management Sciences for Health (MSH), at age 13 started working in a local factory. Attended the famous Latin School in Chicago. Studied math at Harvard. Then joined Merck as it was "growing ferociously fast." Stayed 27 years, grew and led the vaccine business to $6 billion. Was the "quant jock." Spearheaded the l…

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Rep. Adam Smith on Engaging China 41:07

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Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security discussion with Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, on his experience leading a Congressional delegation to China in late September 2025. Rep. Smith’s bipartisan delegation—the first House delegation to travel to China since 2019—pres…

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Dr. Rick Brennan: “This is not good for the American soul.” 35:45

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Dr. Rick Brennan, an acclaimed Australian humanitarian leader who led WHO and NGO crisis response in multiple conflicts over several decades, walks us through his personal story. He then unpacks the scale and gravity of what is now unfolding in Darfar—featuring the “F word” (famine), the “G word”( genocide, affirmed by the US Senate), and the “C wo…

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Fair Doses: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity 42:45

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Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security book launch of Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity by Seth Berkley. As the gravity and magnitude of the Covid-19 pandemic became apparent in the first half of 2020, how did the vision for a mechanism to ensure equitable access…

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Keizo Takemi, recent Japan Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare: "I am quite lucky." 40:52

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Keizo Takemi, recent Japan Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare (September 2023-October 2024), shares his personal story that took him to Taiwan, CNN/Japan, the Diet, Harvard, back to the Diet, and recently into the cabinet of then Prime Minister Kishida. Along the way he became a leading force in charting Japan's approach to global health. As Mi…

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Dr. Debra Houry, former Chief Medical Officer and Dep. Director, CDC: “He’s becoming dangerous to the health of our nation.” 39:04

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Dr. Debra Houry joined the podcast, following her resignation from CDC on August 25, upon the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez, and shortly after her September 17 testimony before the Senate HELP Committee. What does she make of President Trump’s September 22 press conference on Tylenol, its alleged connection to autism, and the potential use o…

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Peter Piot, LSHTM: “A brilliant coalition” essential to success 50:44

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The renowned global health leader, Peter Piot, LSHTM, opens this conversation with reflections on what drove the historic global health successes, including “a brilliant coalition” and U.S. bipartisan leadership grounded in statecraft and strategic thinking. That “twenty-five years of historical anomaly” has however now ended. In Europe, that shift…

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The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics 58:44

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Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security book launch of The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics. As bad as Covid-19 was, the next pandemic could be worse. While the world learns to live with Covid-19 and continues to recover from its worst effects, how do we prepare for the next pandemic lurking around …

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Dr. Celine Gounder, KFF Health News: "Silence was paralysis" 32:05

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Dr. Celine Gounder, Editor-at-Large, KFF Health News, explains how the U.S. vaccine enterprise could be damaged so swiftly by the Trump administration, with so little apparent resistance: it was a "shock and awe" blitz, while hesitation and fear dominated. "Silence was paralysis." It is too early to estimate the true scope of damage. The middle tie…

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CommonHealth Live! with PAHO’s Dr. Jarbas Barbosa 45:43

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In the fifteenth episode of the Common Health Live!, Katherine E. Bliss talks with Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), about challenges related to health security in the Americas, the importance of regional cooperation in building resilient health systems and strengthening preparedness for future health emer…

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Dr. Andriy Klepikov, Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine): "We are still standing." 40:58

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Dr. Andriy Klepikov, the founder and executive director of the Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine), reflects on the Alliance's remarkable evolution over the past 25 years into a major Ukrainian—and regional—non-governmental force in HIV, TB, and harm reduction programs. Foundational to its early success was the exemplary partnership with the Globa…

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Dr. Heidi Larson, LSHTM: “People are struggling to make sense of it.” 20:58

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Dr. Heidi Larson, the acclaimed expert on vaccine confidence at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine – and CSIS Senior Associate – speaks to how the external world is reacting to the changes in the United States in vaccine policy, the scientific R&D biomedical enterprise, and public health. “What has shocked people is the abruptness o…

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The CommonHealth Live! on Financing Global Health in 2025 51:51

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In this episode of The CommonHealth Live!, Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Stephanie Psaki, CSIS Global Health Policy Center Senior Adviser, will discuss IHME’s new report on Financing Global Health, also released in a paper in The Lancet, and its implications for the way forward i…

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Dr. Ken Staley, Palantir: “We have a lot of cool stuff on the horizon.” 40:40

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Dr. Ken Staley, Palantir, has served in health security positions in the George W. Bush and first Trump administrations, with time in-between in private sector biopharma. Palantir was founded after the 9/11 Commission to bring together data streams to enhance security and protect liberties. As director of the President’s Malaria Initiative in the T…

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Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics): “What we are lacking is the investments to move the needle.” 35:44

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Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa is a pediatrician and tuberculosis expert who led the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control during the Covid-19 pandemic. A year ago, he became the CEO of FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics, a product development partnership based in Geneva. A major innovation gap was FIND’s initial focus – and remains a pressing priority. …

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Michael Osterholm, Univ. Minnesota CIDRAP: the Vaccine Integrity Project 37:56

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Michael Osterholm, on July 21, spoke with us on the Vaccine Integrity Project that he is spearheading in response to vaccine-related actions taken by the second Trump administration. “We are in totally unprecedented times.” He explores the VIP’s genesis and mission, its steering committee and partner medical associations, and the VIP’s forthcoming …

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Richard Hatchett, CEPI: “Access does not just happen.” 47:32

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Beth Cameron, Senior Advisor and Professor of the Practice at the Brown University Pandemic Center and a Senior Adviser and non-resident fellow at CSIS, hosts this inspiring July 14 conversation with Richard Hatchett, the CEO of CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. Richard first came to Washington DC in the aftermath of 9/11 t…

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Joe Grogan: “The societal divisions that Covid opened were terrifying.” 44:52

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Joe Grogan, former senior official of the George W. Bush administration and the first Trump administration, operates an active consultancy, hosts a podcast, writes commentaries for USC Schaeffer Center, and is an active member of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security. Drug shortages remain a real problem, with the potential to sca…

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Fabrizio Carboni, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): "I had to face what it meant to be on a battlefield." 54:17

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Fabrizio Carboni, head of the ICRC delegation to the US and Canada, speaks to his vast experience in the wars of the past two decades, including the profound impact of 9/11 (2001) in integrating humanitarian action into battlefield strategies—including the targeting of humanitarian operations. Today, almost 25 years later, we are witnessing unrestr…

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Takeaways from Gavi Replenishment | The CommonHealth Live! 36:49

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In the thirteenth episode of The CommonHealth Live!, Katherine E. Bliss and J. Stephen Morrison discuss the outcomes of the June 25 Health and Prosperity through Immunization Global Summit, co-hosted in Brussels by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the European Union and the Gates Foundation. During the Summit, Gavi aimed to secure pledges of $11.9 billi…