Geneva Intl.

In the third episode of the Health, Intl. podcast, Samhita and Thomas discuss the Spanish flu of 1917-1920, a global pandemic that could provide analogies for the current Covid 19 crisis. They discuss how the Spanish flu has been often forgotten in history, and how the flu compares and contrasts with today’s pandemic.

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Featuring: Samhita Bharadwaj & Thomas Gidney

Music: What I Learned from Your Mother, by Elephant Funeral (CC By-NC-ND 4.0)

Picture: Men wearing masks during the Spanish Influenza epidemic / Hommes portant un masque durant l’épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918. Library and Archives Canada, PA-025025, CC By 2.0.

Spinney, Laura. Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World. 1 edition. New York: PublicAffairs, 2017.

Crosby, Alfred W. America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Oxford, JS, A Sefton, R Jackson, W Innes, RS Daniels, and NPAS Johnson. “World War I May Have Allowed the Emergence of ‘Spanish’ Influenza.” The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2, no. 2 (February 1, 2002): 111–14. 

Cheng, K. F., and P. C. Leung. “What Happened in China during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic?” International Journal of Infectious Diseases 11, no. 4 (July 1, 2007): 360–64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2006.07.009.

Langford, Christopher. “Did the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic Originate in China?” Population and Development Review 31, no. 3 (2005): 473–505. 

Oxford, John S., and Douglas Gill. “A Possible European Origin of the Spanish Influenza and the First Attempts to Reduce Mortality to Combat Superinfecting Bacteria: An Opinion from a Virologist and a Military Historian.” Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 15, no. 9 (September 2, 2019): 2009–12. 

Frangela Dorsainville got the coveted internship so many people want, working for Haiti’s permanent mission for a semester. She’ll give you all the tips and tricks on how to get there and how to make the best of it. And hopefully, provide a few laughs along the way.

This is the first episode of the Graduate Institute Careers podcast. You can find it through Anchor.fm, on Spotify, and from any podcast app using the RSS feed.

Cast: Michelle Olguin Flückliger

Music:

• Regard, by Patryk Skowroński (Unwritten Stories, CC By 3.0)
• Settling In, by Dexter Britain (Creative Commons vol. 3, CC By-NC-SA 3.0)

Logo: Juliette Denis.

In this first health-themed episode of Geneva Intl, Professor Suerie Moon, renowned expert on global governance and public health and co-director of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute Geneva, weighs in on the COVID-19 pandemic as students Esther Pak and Ezekiel Boro ask about everything from preparedness and response on the African continent, panic-buying (is it helpful or hurtful?), WHO leadership, and practical ways that young people can step up and show solidarity during these trying times.

Professor Moon is a globally recognized policy expert on strengthening the global governance of outbreak preparedness and response, and her work has been widely published in top academic journals and mainstream media. Health Intl. is a student-led podcast at the Graduate Institute.

More from Graduate Institute students: https://www.facebook.com/genevaintl/
More about the Global Health Centre: https://graduateinstitute.ch/globalhealth

Credits
Logo: Stephane Bernhard
Music: Candy, by Patryk Skowroński (CC By 3.0)
Episode edited by: Michelle Olguin Flückliger
https://libraryblog.graduateinstitute.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sm-v2_mixdown.mp3

About the podcast:

The Health Intl podcast is a student-led initiative at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Health Intl features current news and exciting research in global health coming out of the Graduate Institute, Geneva and the globe.

More podcasts from Graduate Institute students: www.facebook.com/genevaintl/

Introducing the first episode of the IHEID Environmental Committee podcast, “The Ecologist”.

Being the first episode, instead of conducting a formal interview, the hosts, Olivier and Anna, decided to simply have a discussion amongst themselves in relation to this month’s topic: sustainability.

The Ecologist, Episode 1

Since sustainability is such a broad theme, this month’s episode is centered around circular economics, an idea that is fascinating for its potentially transformative effect on the environment and local economy.

Circular economics is an alternative to the global order’s traditionally linear economic system where goods produced go through a linear process of extraction, consumption, and waste. In contrast, a circular economic system aims to redefine our economic model by embracing strategies such as reuse, repair and recycle.

With the emergence of a popular movement against capitalism and big business, more small businesses and local producers are appealing to eco-conscious consumers. But is it enough to make a positive impact?

In the second half of this episode, Olivier and Anna introduce the first guests of the season- Ana and Mondine, two students from the University of Geneva, who talk a bit about Sustainability Week Geneva, an event taking place March 9th-13th, but also all throughout Switzerland at numerous higher education institutions in order to empower young adults and to bring awareness to sustainability concerns that was sadly cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

The Ecologist: https://ec-iheid.org/category/podcast/
The Ecologist is available on iTunes and Spotify.

Guests: Ana Riesen and Mondine Moeschler
Introduction for Geneva, Intl. : Michelle Olguin Fluckliger
Music Credits: Joseph McDade – Elevation (open license)

Sustainability Week website: https://www.sustainabilityweek.ch/

Sustainable Food 

• https://www.kartoffel.ch/fr – Ideas (although not always vegetarian or vegan) of recipes with potatoes
• https://www.swissfruit.ch/fr – All fruits currently grown in Switzerland
• https://www.gemuese.ch/Fr – Swiss vegetables/fruits seasonal calendar
• https://www.bio-suisse.ch/media/Konsumenten/Divers/bio_suisse_saisonkalender_fleisch_f.pdf – Even meat has its own season!
• https://www.farmy.ch – Online food market

Others

• https://www.labeille.ch – Local producer of “Bee Wraps”
• http://trashisfortossers.com – Nice “zero waste” blog
• https://zerowasteswitzerland.ch/events/ – Events on zero waste in Geneva (and other cities)
• https://www.genevemarches.ch – Markets around Geneva
• https://manivelle.ch/fr – Cooperative to borrow tools
• https://lenid.ch/ – Local food shop
• https://zerowasteswitzerland.ch/carte-zws/ – Other addresses of sustainable shops!

This is the trailer episode in a series by students of the Graduate Institute, featuring (by order of appearance) Joshua Thew, Michelle Olguin Flückliger, Anna Ploeg, and Samhita Bharadwaj. This series will present the research, initiatives, and lives of students and other partners at the Graduate Institute.

Listen now: https://libraryblog.graduateinstitute.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/gva-itl-s00-e01-trailer-v3.mp3

The Graduate Institute students podcasting initiative will empower students to create and publish their original podcasts, with support from the Library.

Interested? Contact us at [email protected]!

You can also learn more on the Podcasting guide.

This episode was edited by Michelle Olguin Flückliger. The Geneva Intl. committee would like to thank RTS Geneva for letting us record this trailer in their studios.

Background music: Podcast News by AuthorMusic: https://soundcloud.com/authormusic, music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com under license CC BY-ND 3.0

Read the script here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tvZScyAoaXuWXlOnUxGwC3ABOAzK2VVRrEdE9lWsa28