A Deeper Look

Societies are grappling with not only how to manage the public health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also the social and economic consequences. In this episode, Patrick Fine, Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, talks with Mark Meassick, the Mission Director of USAID Kenya and East Africa, about a wide range of topics impacting development work at an operational level, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

Distance education has been around for decades. But, with the COVID-19 pandemic closing schools around the world and forcing more than 1.2 billion children out of their classrooms, education systems have turned to remote learning as an alternative. How is the pandemic impacting education in Africa, and do African countries have the infrastructure and resources to switch to remote learning until the COVID-19 threat passes? In this episode, Patrick Fine, Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, speaks with Sidiki Traore, Founder and President of Distance Education for Africa. They discuss the challenges and opportunities uncovered by the sudden wholesale shift to distance education and highlight the policies, skills and tools necessary to adapt to remote learning in Africa.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

At a time when people are rising up against systemic racism, this episode examines the need for development practitioners to recognize their position of privilege and lean out to create space for new ideas, grassroots initiatives and, ultimately, a more equitable world. The three co-founders of the Duke Decolonizing Global Health working group at Duke University – Laura Mkumba, Yadu Raveendran and Andrea Koris – discuss the lasting influences of colonialism on the current development system, the inequitable effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the importance of bringing cultural context into perspective in global development work.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, distinguished leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the global economy, and the economic and social aftershocks will reverberate for years to come. In this episode, Patrick Fine speaks with Homi Kharas, Interim Vice President and Director of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institute, a leading policy think tank. They discuss the pandemic's effects on the global financial system, changes in public and private resource mobilization and investment, and the need for new and modified financial instruments to respond to unprecedented challenges.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

Concerning trends loom on the horizon and are shaping the future of development. Large parts of the world are growing increasingly fragile, and climate change and its effects are affecting an ever-larger portion of the world’s population, with the hardest impacts on the poorest and most vulnerable. Nationalism and isolationism compound these trends and have been given additional oxygen from the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this episode, Patrick Fine, Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, speaks with Sam Worthington, Chief Executive Officer of InterAction. They discuss the role of women in bringing about positive change, the evolution and impact of civil society and the concept of localization. Although this episode was taped before COVID-19 had been declared a global pandemic, the crisis amplifies the relevance and urgency of the themes in this episode

What are the systems, trends and ideas that are shaping education in the United States?

In this episode, Patrick Fine, Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, speaks with education reformer Dr. Warren Simmons about how to reimagine the way public education is delivered in the United States in order to promote equity and improve quality.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

How do evolving security challenges shape the way that the military and the global development community simultaneously work in conflict-affected regions and communities?

In this episode, Patrick Fine, Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, speaks with retired Lieutenant General David Barno about military operations in areas where humanitarian and development work is simultaneously being carried out. They discuss lessons learned from the asymmetric wars of the early 21st century, examine different doctrines that influence military tactics and identify a number of similarities between military and civilian theories of action. Looking at civilian-military operations over the last twenty years, they underscore the centrality of governance to resolving today’s conflicts and achieving sustainable development in the future.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

It’s a new year and a new decade. What are the big trends, ideas and forces that will shape development in the 2020s?

In this episode, Patrick Fine, Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, talks with Carolyn Miles, outgoing President and Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children US, and Masood Ahmed, President of the Center for Global Development, about the shape of things to come. They discuss both the progress made since the turn of the century and the big challenges that lie ahead, and they outline some of the questions that the development community will need to tackle in the future.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

The Sustainable Development Goals include the concept of universality to recognize that the challenges of human development are not confined to low-income countries. In this episode, we take a deeper look at the daunting human development challenges in the United States. What are the parallels and shared lessons between domestic and global development challenges and solutions, particularly with respect to addressing poverty and inequality?

To end this season’s look at the darker side of development, Patrick Fine, Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, sits down with David Dodson, President of MDC, a nonprofit working on issues of poverty and power in the U.S. South. They discuss the structural issues that lead to inequality, the importance of place-based institutions to combat poverty and the ebb and flow of progress within development.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.

Advocacy has played a critical role in development achievements over the last 20 years, from reducing deaths from malaria by 50 percent, to cutting maternal mortality in half, to expanding education for all. But, does celebrating progress lead to complacency?

In this episode, Patrick Fine, Chief Executive Officer of FHI 360, sits down with Tom Hart, North America Executive Director for the ONE Campaign, to take a deeper look at ONE’s approach to advocacy. They discuss the paradoxical effects of sharing global health successes and how the final stretch of achieving development goals is the hardest part of the race.

FHI 360's Chief Executive Officer, Patrick Fine, hosts conversations with creative thinkers, respected leaders and local actors who are at the forefront of human development and who bring diverse perspectives to timely, high-stakes and sometimes controversial issues affecting people around the world.