Catching up with Tony Fauci & Celebrating 5 Years of A Shot in the Arm Podcast

A Shot In The Arm Podcast is five years old! And to celebrate this milestone, we present a special Global Health Diplomats joint episode, where Ben is joined by Ambassador Eric Goosby and Professor Anthony Fauci to reflect on what lessons - if any - the world has learned from COVID (remember that?) for pandemic preparation. Plus a special surprise for Tony from the world-leading local community health center serving San Francisco’s most marginalized populations.

https://youtube.com/@shotarmpodcast

https://www.unaids.org/en

https://www.who.int/health-topics/hiv-aids

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/default.html

https://au.int/en/sa/oid

https://www.sfcommunityhealth.org

#COVID-19 #society #globallistening #resilience #preparedness #futurecrisis #HPV #influenza #vaccine #mRNA#HIV #PEPFAR  #podcast #showofhope #TonyFauci #Fauci #SFCHC

All About ViiV: An Interview with CEO Deborah Waterhouse at CROI 2024

ViiV Healthcare is the world’s  only pharmaceutical company dedicated exclusively to HIV, and in this episode, Ben meets its CEO, Deborah Waterhouse, to explore the company’s approach to HIV R&D and commercial success - as well as the controversies its global access strategy has attracted for its new long acting injectables.  Deborah and Ben find they have much in common beyond both being Brits growing up in the 70s and 80s, from being students of the humanities choosing to make careers in health, to their favorite pop music. 

https://viivhealthcare.com

https://www.unaids.org/en

https://www.who.int/health-topics/hiv-aids

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/default.html

https://au.int/en/sa/oid

#ViiV #pharma #HIV #AIDS #treatment #Prevention #PrEP #dualtherapy #longacting #injectables #globalaccess #globalequity #discrimination #positiveaction #womenleaders #IWD 

Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: International Women's Day - Our Bodies, Our Rights, Our Choices.

This International Women’s Day, we’re sharing the mic with Frontline AIDS. Yvette Raphael reflects on the challenges and setbacks girls and women face around the world in 2024, in a hard hitting conversation with Frontline AIDS’ Yumnah Hattas, Toyin Chukwudozie Executive Director of Nigeria’s Education As A Vaccine, and Beirne Roose-Snyder, Senior Director of the Preclusion Project. 

https://frontlineaids.org

https://www.evanigeria.org

https://apha.org.za

https://www.thepreclusionproject.org

https://www.unaids.org/en

https://www.state.gov/pepfar

https://www.project2025.org

#IWD #HIV #AIDS #pepfar #womensrights #antiabortion #forcedbirth #neocolonialism #reproductivehealth #choiceagenda

Uganda’s Legalized Persecution of LGBTQ+ / Personal & Public Health Threats

Recorded in June 2023, Yvette Raphael and Ben Plumley catch up with Dr. Frank Mugisha, a leading Ugandan advocate at the forefront of the fight against the country’s persecution of the LGBTQ+ community. After the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill became law in Uganda, Frank explains the direct threats to the safety of the LGBTQ+ Ugandans and their supporters. He  points to the outsize funding and  influence of Western, particularly North American, right-wing Christian evangelists. The conversation serves, not only as an insight into the growing anti-rights movement that targets women’s as well as LGBTQ+ rights, but also a call to action to other pro-rights African leaders to stand up and be counted. How can the end of AIDS be achieved by 2030, if disproportionately affected communities are persecuted and driven underground?

https://smuginternational.org

https://www.state.gov/pepfar

https://www.unaids.org/en

https://frontlineaids.org

https://global-listening.org

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-watch-international

#LGBTQ #Uganda #anti-homosexualitylaw #HIV #AIDS #marginalisedcommunities #neocolonialism #extremism #Africansolidarity

The Global Trust Crisis with 70,000 People from 70 Countries

The Global Listening Project has teamed up with the Global Health Diplomats and A Shot In The Arm Podcast, to bring you the release of the Project’s new 70 country 70,000 people study into how public trust in governments and health policies have been affected by COVID-19. It’s the first data set of this size to capture comprehensive information about people’s sense of preparedness for future crises. Coming just before the Munich Security Conference, Co-host Ben Plumley catches up with GLP founder, Professor Heidi Larson in Bengaluru, along with friend of the podcast, Prasada Rao JVR, former Health Secretary of India, and Professor Balaji Parthasarthy, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, to explore why we are witnessing a global trust crisis - and why it its urgent for human security to address this.

https://global-listening.org
https://www.iiitb.ac.in
https://securityconference.org/en
https://securityconference.org/en/publications/munich-security-report-2024

#security #humansecurity #globalsecurity #globalhealthsecurity #pandemicpreparedness #climatedisruption #conflict #trust #india #munichsecurityconference

How US Domestic Abortion Decisions Affect the Rights & Health of People Globally

In the first of an informal series of episodes looking at the PEPFAR & US global AIDS funding, Ben chats with Dr Anu Kumar, President & CEO of IPAS, on how the US Supreme Court’s repeal of Roe vs Wade has mobilized extremist neo-colonial efforts to reverse HIV, safe abortion services and global health programs particularly in sub Saharan Africa.

https://www.ipas.org
https://www.state.gov/pepfar
https://www.emilybass.club/book
https://www.unaids.org/en

#pepfar #HIV #AIDS #SRHR #abortion #safeabortion #RoeVsWade #LGBT

Focus on PEPFAR

Upcoming episodes of A Shot In The Arm and Global Health Diplomats podcasts are focusing on PEPFAR - the US multi-billion investment in helping countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic, and saving tens of millions of lives. Its future funding is precarious, stalled in Congress - and we will explore the massive impact it has had, how it became the poster child for bipartisanship in Washington DC - and how allies of all political stripes can get it back on track.

https://www.state.gov/about-us-pepfar

#pepfar

How Prepared is Japanese Society for the Next Crisis?

Japan’s collectivistic approach to society enabled its citizens to “pull together” through the COVID pandemic - but has it become complacent in the face of future crises? Ben caught up with Heidi Larson, the co-founder of the Global Listening Project in Tokyo, as she shared initial learnings from the Project’s 70 country opinion research study into societal preparedness with experts, as well as leading Japanese virologist Professor Hitoshi Oshitani, and Moderna’s Dr Rachel Dawson to explore just how far the country’s COVID response provides important lessons for the next crisis.

Professor Hitoshi Oshitani, Professor of Virology, Tohoku University, Japan

Dr. Rachel Dawson, Executive Director, Medical Affairs, Moderna

Professor Heidi Larson, Co-Founder & Chair, The Global Listening Project

https://global-listening.org

http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en

https://www.modernatx.com

https://www.ashotinthearmpodcast.com

https://www.youtube.com/@shotarmpodcast

#japan #COVID-19 #society #globallistening #resilience #preparedness #futurecrisis #HPV #influenza #vaccine #mRNA

Lagos: Are Men Still the Providers in the 21st Century?

Y-Isha Raphael asks three young Nigerian content creators from Lagos (who recently participated in a joint MTV Staying Alive Foundation and Global Listening Project digital media bootcamp) on how gender social norms are changing in a rapidly-evolving world of instagram and TikTok after COVID lockdowns. 

Joining Y-Isha Raphael (@shesinprogress.sa) are Umura Nana, Richard Precious and Emmanuel Uche. 

This podcast was recorded at the Lagos Film Academy as part of a collaboration with the Global Listening Project and the MTV Staying Alive Foundation with funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  It was produced and directed by Emma Uduma and the team at SmatMedia. 

https://global-listening.org

https://www.mtvstayingalive.org

https://www.instagram.com/smatmedia?igsh=YTQwZjQ0NmI0OA==

#menaretheproviders #mentalhealth #nigeriayouth #contentcreation #youthledstories #kenyacontent #storytelling #sprinklesprinkle #lagosyouth #lagoscontent #socialnorms #genderstereotypes #lagosinfluencer

Are Hospitals Now Weapons of War?

From Ukraine to the Middle East, healthcare has become a primary target in military strategy. Is this a new development or just that the 24 news cycle is making us more aware? Eric and Ben explore the responsibilities of all sides in conflicts - and how global health diplomacy cannot ignore the destruction of healthcare.

We are delighted to be supported by the John C Martin Foundation, in honor of our friend John - one of the world’s most influential health diplomats.

https://www.csis.org

https://www.cfr.org

https://ecfr.eu

Spotify - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/globalhealthdiplomats/episodes/Are-Hospitals-Now-Weapons-of-War-e2dahhd/a-aaod6ua

#middleeast #ukraine #terrorism #hospitals #healthcareworkers #globalhealthdiplomacy