The New Season of Triple Threats

Have you had your seasonal flu vaccine? What about your updated COVID vaccine, or the new RSV vaccine? Ben chats with James Mansi from Moderna and Podcast regular, Yvette Raphael about the opportunities - and challenges - of protecting people with seasonal vaccines and building trust in the science behind those vaccines.

Guests:

• James Mansi, Vice President, Medical Affairs USA, Moderna

• Yvette Raphael, Executive Director, Advocates for the Prevention of HIV in Africa (APHA)

For more information:

https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/index.html

https://www.modernatx.com

https://www.apha.org.za

https://global-listening.org

Watch Yvette’s South African PSA on COVID vaccinations:

https://youtu.be/REPHob9HXNU?si=wPlFhi9EyIzA_0Wl

#tripledemic2023 #influenza #COVID #RSV #seasonalvaccine #trust #protection #mRNA #science #communities

Trust, AI & Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics

On the road in Singapore with the Global Listening Project, Ben checks in with Heidi Larson and Leesa Lin as they share the first top-line results from the Project’s 70-country societal preparedness index with the Center For Trusted Internet & Community at the National University of Singapore. No subject is out of bounds - from perceptions on mRNA platforms, to differences between generations and gender, the role of AI in health and emergency preparedness - and whether Isaac Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics might actually be relevant today in building trust in technology…

https://global-listening.org

https://www.d24h.hk

https://ctic.nus.edu.sg

#trust #technology #mRNA #AI #crisis #preparedness #asimov #robots

Decolonialize your Career in Global Health

Ben has a fascinating conversation with Dr. Kirk Scirto, author of the modestly titled “Doing Global Health Work” published by Hesperian - on his lessons learned from a career of over 20 years sharing medical skills in service of local health services in 11 countries across 4 continents. Its a cracking read - and essential for those interested in meaningful careers in global health, checking our northern privilege to serve communities who have as much to teach us as well as benefiting from the skills and tools we may have to offer.

You can find “Doing Global Health Work” from all good book shops, and directly from Hesperian at

https://store.hesperian.org/prod/Doing_Global_Health_Work.html

https://hesperian.org

https://global-listening.org

https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

#globalhealth #suitcasemedicine #evidencebased #rightsbased #healthjustice #empowerment #globallistening

Jirair Ratevosian: A Global Health Leader Runs for Congress

Jirair Ratevosian, a respected & well known figure in the field of global health, is running to succeed the Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff in California’s District 30. We explore his decision, the issues facing this Los Angeles community where Jirair grew up, the importance of his Armenian roots - and his thoughts on the funding cliff facing the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

If you want to know more about Jirair’s campaign and how you can help, visit https://jirairforca.com

https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

https://global-listening.org

https://www.state.gov/pepfar

https://unaids.org/en

https://www.who.int

#jirairforca #jirair #ratevosian #CAdistrict30 #PEPFAR #armenianamericans #LGBTQI #healthcare #globalhealth #healthequity

Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: HIV is a Feminist Issue

To coincide with the 2023 Women Deliver Conference in Kigali, Rwanda in July 2023, Sharing the Mic explores the impact of the AIDS epidemic on girls and women who remain disproportionately affected by HIV. Joining Ben and co-host Frontline AIDS’ Oratile Moseki, are Vuyiseka Dubula of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, and Joyce Ouma from Y Plus Global to explain why HIV is a feminist issue.

https://frontlineaids.org
https://womendeliver.org/conference/wd2023
https://stephenlewisfoundation.org
https://www.yplusglobal.org
https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

#HIV #Women #Feminism #WomenDeliver #WD2023

Looking Back to Move Forward: A Conversation with Robin Gorna

We reconnect with Robin Gorna, an internationally respected gender and HIV activist & writer to update us on what it has been like for her living with long COVID for 3 years, and we reflect on how the lessons of the HIV movement from the last thirty years, can help guide us in this new era of pandemics preparedness and response.

https://robingorna.com
https://unaids.org/en
https://www.cdc.gov
https://www.who.int
https://www.nih.gov
https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

#SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #HIV #AIDS #Gender #Community #Research #Pandemics #PPR

76th World Health Assembly - Pandemic? What Pandemic?

The first full day of the #WHA76 - speeches and networking. (Not) Taiwan and Russia on the UN floor. Behind the scenes, efforts brewing to ensure we don't forget COVID, as the world prepares for the "polycrises" that face us... Elisha are joined by Lois Chingandu, Frontline AIDS.

This is a special live streamed series with the Global Health Council.

76th World Health Assembly - What To Expect

The Global Health Council is joining A Shot In The Arm Podcast to provide accessible, daily updates on all the news coming out of the 76th World Health Assembly. In this introductory episode, Ben Plumley and GHC President & CEO Elisha Dunn-Georgiou explore what to expect, from a pandemics treaty, Universal Health Coverage,  non-communicable diseases, a diagnostics declaration, to the fight to secure greater transparency & accountability in how decisions are made by this august body, in the age of polycrisis.

https://globalhealth.org

https://www.who.int/about/governance/world-health-assembly

https://www.who.int

https://unaids.org

https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

#WorldHealthAssembly #WHA76 #WorldHealthOrganization #WHO #GlobalHealthCouncil #GHC #UNAIDS #pandemicspreparation #pandemicstreaty #UniveralHealthCare #UHC #UNAIDS #NonCommunicableDiseases #NCDs #mentalhealth #climatehealth #transparency

Uganda’s New Anti-LGBT Law, Human Rights and Access to Health

With recently passed anti-LGBT legislation in Uganda, Eric and Ben discuss what role global health diplomacy could play (and most likely was) in upholding human rights and ensuring that essential HIV-related services reach those most in need - especially LGBT communities. And we answer your questions, second episode in.

About the hosts:

Eric Goosby is an American public health official and professor at UCSF, where he directs the Center for Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy. An infectious disease specialist, he treated patients at San Francisco General Hospital when HIV/AIDS first began to emerge and take its toll in the early 1980s.  Eric joined the Clinton administration to administer newly-authorized Ryan White CARE Act, overseeing the distribution of federal funds and the planning of services in 25 AIDS epicenters, as well as in all 50 states and U.S. territories. He went on to co-found the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, where he helped develop and implement HIV national treatment scale-up plans in Rwanda, South Africa, China, and Ukraine. In 2009, he was tapped by President Obama to be his Global AIDS Coordinator, heading up the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a position he held until 2013. He went on to be the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis. Eric likes very strong coffee, and is being educated by Ben on the joys of podcasting.

Ben Plumley is a global health strategist, currently the Head of Digital Advocacy and Outreach at the Global Health Listening Project, and founder of the Global Health Strategy Agency, Hunuvat. He was Chief of Staff to the Founding Executive Director of UNAIDS, and Executive Director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV & AIDS.  He held senior roles in Glaxo Wellcome and Johnson & Johnson. In 2010, he was appointed CEO of the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, succeeding Eric Goosby, where he advised national governments, corporations, the UN and community organizations on infectious disease treatment and prevention strategies in Zimbabwe, Nigeria, China, Ukraine, Laos and South Africa. He is Co-Chair of the MTV Staying Alive Foundation, and President of the San Francisco Community Health Center. His journey into podcasting began in 2018 with A Shot In The Arm Podcast. Eric has been a mentor to Ben since the early 2000s, including his passion for exceptionally strong coffee.

HIV Prevention for Girls & Women - Real Choice, Not Theoretical Options

In the first episode of this new season of Sharing The Mic with Frontline AIDS, we talk choice in HIV prevention, why it’s essential to protect girls and women in sub Saharan Africa, and why the world needs to step up to make exciting new biomedical innovations available to them, as a matter of urgency. 

Introduction:

Lois Chingandu, Interim Executive Director, Frontline AIDS

Hosts:

Ben Plumley, Host A Shot In The Arm Podcast

Leora Pillay, Lead, HIV Prevention Advocacy, Frontline AIDS

Guests:

Patriciah Jeckonia, Senior Technical Adviser, LVCT Health Kenya 

Judith Auerbach, independent science & policy consultant, Professor, UCSF School of Medicine

Production:

Erik Espera, Director & Producer, NewsDoc Media

Frontline AIDS team - Suzanne Fisher-Murray, Allie Liu 

Links:

https://frontlineaids.org

https://lvcthealth.org

https://amp.profiles.ucsf.edu/judith.auerbach

https://www.unaids.org/en/topic/prevention

https://www.who.int/health-topics/hiv-aids#tab=tab_1

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prevention.html

https://popcouncil.org/media/population-council-completes-asset-purchase-agreement-from-the-international-partnership-for-microbicides

https://medicinespatentpool.org/licence-post/cabotegravir-long-acting-la-for-hiv-pre-exposure-prophylaxis-prep

#HIV #HIVPrevention #longacting #girls&women #dapivirinering #cabla