The CommonHealth

by CSIS Global Health Policy Center | Center for Strategic and International Studies

The CommonHealth is the podcast of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security. On The CommonHealth, hosts J. Stephen Morrison, Katherine Bliss, and Andrew Schwartz delve deeply into the puzzle that connects pandemic preparedness and response, HIV/AIDS, routine immunization, and primary care, areas of huge import to human and national security. The CommonHealth replaces under a single podcast the Coronavirus Crisis Update, Pandemic Planet and AIDS Existential Moment.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, NYT health policy correspondent: HHS Secretary Kennedy may run for President in 2028
Jun 5, 2025 – 45:39
Helen Branswell, Stat News infectious diseases and global health reporter: “Is the solution making it harder for individuals to get vaccines?”
May 29, 2025 – 37:38
Dr. Kate O’Brien, WHO: “The success of vaccines is that, basically, nothing happens.”
May 21, 2025 – 28:49
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO: “We would welcome a dialogue with the (Trump) administration.”
May 20, 2025 – 32:29
Dr. Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg, former FDA Commissioner: “I hope we can come together around shared goals.”
May 15, 2025 – 42:46
Dr. Jennifer Kates, KFF: “Congress is fed up with blank check forever.”
May 1, 2025 – 33:39
Measles Outbreaks in 2025 with Dr. Adam Ratner and Dr. Ephrem T. Lemango | The CommonHealth Live!
May 1, 2025 – 53:00
CommonHealth Live! with Republic of Indonesia Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin
May 1, 2025 – 45:07
Dr. Stephanie Psaki, former Assistant to the President and White House Global Health Security Coordinator: “We are wandering in the desert.”
Apr 24, 2025 – 51:45
Maj. Gen. Paul Friedrichs (ret.): “I cannot recall anything similar to this.”
Apr 17, 2025 – 45:15
Dr. Tom Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives: “We are now flying blind.”
Apr 10, 2025 – 28:34
Tom Bollyky, CFR: China will not fill the gap “as the dominant actor in global health security exits the stage.”
Apr 3, 2025 – 37:52
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, Your Local Epidemiologist: Death threats and thick skin are “part of this gig.”
Mar 27, 2025 – 29:08
Dr. Jeffrey Gold, President, University of Nebraska system: lately it’s been “a day-by-day, week-by-week course adjustment.”
Mar 20, 2025 – 27:37
Carmen Paun, Politico “It’s been astonishing to watch” USAID dismantled
Mar 14, 2025 – 39:19
Measles Outbreak Implications
Mar 12, 2025 – 23:17
Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron: “It has been a blizzard... It’s a staggering reality”
Mar 6, 2025 – 36:19
Dr. Vanessa Kerry: "Health is a Cornerstone of Global Security"
Feb 27, 2025 – 31:38
CommonHealth Live! with Assistant Secretary Loyce Pace
Feb 24, 2025 – 48:04
Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley, President of Vassar College: “We’re ready.”
Feb 6, 2025 – 28:43
Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times science and global health reporter: RFK Jr. “damned by his own history.”
Feb 3, 2025 – 33:31
Dr. Heidi Larson, LSHTM: "Public health cannot rest on its laurels."
Jan 23, 2025 – 30:04
Director Mandy Cohen: The Future of the CDC
Jan 16, 2025 – 59:48
CommonHealth Live! with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Jan 7, 2025 – 46:10
CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Rahul Gupta
Jan 7, 2025 – 52:36
Dan Diamond, National Health Reporter, Washington Post: “Everything feels grey to me...”
Dec 18, 2024 – 30:55
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times: "Humility is a word I hear a lot in public health."
Dec 12, 2024 – 31:01
Michael Merson, Professor Emeritus, Duke University: “We need a plan.”
Nov 26, 2024 – 34:24
CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Hanan Balkhy
Nov 19, 2024 – 33:49
CommonHealth Live! with Dr. John Balbus
Nov 19, 2024 – 40:47
Javier Guzman, Center for Global Development: “Yes it was successful, but...”
Oct 23, 2024 – 34:47
Dr. Michael Osterholm, Professor and Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), U. Minnesota: We need “a pretty damn healthy dose of humility.”
Oct 11, 2024 – 29:47
Nidhi Bouri, Deputy Assistant Administrator, USAID Bureau for Global Health: on mpox, anti-microbial resistance, Marburg virus in Rwanda, and money headaches
Oct 4, 2024 – 45:54
Dr. Jerome Adams, 20th U.S. Surgeon General: “I was the first Twitter Surgeon General.”
Sep 5, 2024 – 48:26
Dr. Anthony Fauci, MD: ‘On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service’
Aug 16, 2024 – 57:59
Dr. Megan Ranney, Dean, Yale School of Public Health: We have the public health tools to tackle America’s epidemic of firearm injuries and deaths.
Aug 5, 2024 – 41:44
The Private Sector, Civic Space, and Global Health Advocacy on the Eve of AIDS 2024
Jul 19, 2024 – 37:21
Len Rubenstein, Johns Hopkins University: “The policy is hand-wringing… Total impunity.”
Jul 8, 2024 – 35:36
Dr. Raj Panjabi: we need “biological humility”
May 23, 2024 – 40:04
Dr. Angela Apeagyei & Dr. Chris Murray, IHME: “Real risks on the horizon” for global health
May 20, 2024 – 52:32
French Ambassador for Global Health Anne-Claire Amprou: A Big Historical Moment
Apr 11, 2024 – 33:15
Jennifer Kates, KFF: “Not a great time to be asking for lots of money… everything has changed.”
Apr 4, 2024 – 30:27
CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Sandro Galea
Mar 22, 2024 – 46:39
Noam Unger, CSIS: The urgency of health adaptation? “It’s self-evident but requires massive changes.”
Mar 18, 2024 – 33:21
Dr. Andrés G. (Willy) Lescano, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia: "A Perfect Storm Scenario"
Mar 14, 2024 – 38:11
The CommonHealth Live! with Dr. Vanessa Kerry and Minister Austin Demby
Mar 1, 2024 – 01:01:10
Donald G. McNeil, The Wisdom of Plagues
Feb 15, 2024 – 57:50
The CommonHealth Live! WHO Senior Advisor Dr. Scott Dowell on the Global Health Emergency Corps
Feb 13, 2024 – 46:38
Dr. Sandro Galea, Boston University SPH, ‘Within Reason’
Feb 1, 2024 – 35:19
Dr. Joseph Majkut, Director, CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change: COP28 is “a punctuation mark.”
Jan 23, 2024 – 41:47

Recent Reviews

ShelleyChalker

Gold

Such gold. Constant gold from CSIS.
ZackOconner1981

Globalist nonsense

Far left perspective is of no value given how wrong they have been on Covid19.
brill574

CSIS

This is a highly informative podcast from the CSIS podcast.
sticktoscience

Less politics, more science.

Look, we all know Donald Trump has done a terrible job. Why must every show be political or have a political bent? Stick to the science.
HA Schwartz

Highly Listenable

Coronavirus Crisis Update is the most informative and listenable podcast out there.