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  • Dr. Raj Panjabi on the Importance of Community-Based Health Systems in Pandemic Response

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    Africa in Transition  //  Friday Podcasts  //  October 30, 2020  //  By Matthew Gallagher

    Panjabi Podcast Thumbnail (1)If there’s anything about responding to an epidemic, it’s that speed matters, and so does investing in people closest to the problem, said Dr. Raj Panjabi, Assistant Professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and CEO of Last Mile Health, in this week’s Friday Podcast. The latter, he said, is the root of resilience.

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  • The Importance of Community Trust to Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

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    Covid-19  //  Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  October 30, 2020  //  By Vicha Adri

    podcast photo“Vaccine hesitancy is to be expected in a normal circumstance—it’s very different from being what we call ‘anti-vaccine,’” says Dr. Rahul Gupta, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical and Health Officer at March of Dimes, in this week’s Friday Podcast. He spoke at a recent Wilson Center event on ongoing efforts to develop and deliver a COVID-19 vaccine, co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh, March of Dimes, and the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation.

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  • The Resurgence of Indigenous Midwifery in Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  October 16, 2020  //  By Hannah Chosid

    podcast photos 4x3 (1)Globally, Indigenous women experience worse maternal health outcomes than non-Indigenous women. In the United States, the risk of maternal death is twice as high for Native women than for white women, while in Australia the risk is four and a half times higher. This week’s Friday Podcast highlights remarks from a recent Wilson Center event with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the International Confederation of Midwives about Indigenous midwifery.

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  • Highlights from the First-Ever State of the World’s Nursing Report

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    Dot-Mom  //  Friday Podcasts  //  May 15, 2020  //  By Amanda King

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    The year 2020 has been designated as the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife by the World Health Organization. In April 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO), International Council of Nurses, and Nursing Now, published the first-ever State of the World’s Nursing Report. This week’s Friday Podcast highlights remarks from a recent Wilson Center event on the report’s findings and recommendations, gender implications in the health workforce, and the role of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Unpacking Covid-19 and the Connections Between Ecosystems, Human Health, and Security

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    Covid-19  //  Friday Podcasts  //  May 1, 2020  //  By Eliana Guterman

    7461106_8f86aa4373_o“What are the underlying drivers of risk that created the conditions for Covid-19 to emerge, and how do we better address them?” said Lauren Herzer Risi, Project Director for the Environmental Change and Security Program, in this week’s Friday Podcast, recorded during a recent Wilson Center Ground Truth Briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic. This question framed the discussion, which explored the intersection of the environment, public health, and national security. Although the global pandemic came as a shock to many, the novel coronavirus was not a surprise to epidemiologists and experts who had been sounding the alarm for decades. There have been clear signals of the risks we face from animal-to-human virus transmission, including Ebola, SARS, and other regional epidemics, said Risi. These zoonotic diseases, especially now, are creating concerns about food safety, wildlife conservation, and public health. But the risks don’t just come from wet markets and our increasingly connected world.

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  • Wim Zwijnenburg on Using Data to Visualize the Impacts of Conflict on the Environment

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    Friday Podcasts  //  February 21, 2020  //  By Wania Yad

    Wim podcast imageThrough open source information, remote sensing, and existing data, we can have a better sense of how conflict impacts the environment and how it then impacts people depending on the environment, said Wim Zwijnenburg, a Humanitarian Disarmament Project Leader for the Dutch peace organization, PAX, in this week’s Friday Podcast. Wim sat down for an interview with ECSP’s Amanda King at the first International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, hosted at the University of California, Irvine, in October 2019.

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  • To Address Security in Africa, Focus on the Citizen: Ambassador Phillip Carter III on the Connections between Development and Security

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    Africa in Transition  //  Friday Podcasts  //  December 6, 2019  //  By Deekshita Ramanarayanan

    Ambassador Carter 235x176To address the security challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa we need to shift the focus from a concept of state security to one of citizen security, says Ambassador Phillip Carter III (ret.), former Ambassador to the Ivory Coast and the Republic of Guinea, in this week’s Friday Podcast. “Our current strategy of a military response to terrorist organizations or criminal networks is inadequate at best, and probably unsustainable at worst,” says Carter. “To me, the greatest security threat in Africa is poor or bad governance.”

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  • Gordon Mumbo on Water and Livelihoods in the Mara River Basin

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Security for a Resilient World  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  November 15, 2019  //  By Benjamin Dills

    Gordon Mumbo imageThis article is part of ECSP’s Water Security for a Resilient World series, a partnership with USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership and Winrock International to share stories about global water security.

    “If you live in the developed world or in some urban centers, then the supply of water is guaranteed,” said Gordon Mumbo, team leader for Sustainable Water for the Mara River Basin, a project of Winrock International and USAID’s Sustainable Water Partnership, in this week’s Water Stories podcast. When you wake up, you expect water to flow from your tap. “If you don’t find it flowing, you get upset and will probably call the utility company.” But people living in the Mara River Basin don’t have that luxury. “They have to walk to the river to get water and bring it home,” said Mumbo.

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