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Join Mr. Pradeep Kakkattil and Dr. Velislava Petrova talk about the work, purpose, and importance of the Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx)! Launched by UNAIDS, HIEx was set up to overcome the siloed approach that exists in the health care ecosystem and brings together a multisectoral approach to connect investors, innovators, and relevant health care stakeholders.  Further, listen to how innovations can be scaled up to improve, expand, and repurpose health care? Click on and listen more!

https://healthinnovation.exchange/ 

Hosted by Ludocvica Tramontin and Samhita Bharadwaj 

Is Innovation, a technology? Is it an invention? Or is it something greater and has to do with the mindset to innovate? 

Catch Mr. Pradeep Kakkattil, Director at Office of Innovation of UNAIDS, and Dr. Velislava Petrova, Research Fellow at UNAIDS Office of Innovation disentangle the true meaning, value, and importance of innovation and what it means to the present and future of health care. Set in the covid-19 backdrop that the world faces, how can innovations contribute to the global combat against the pandemic? Listen on for more information 

Hosted by Ludovica Tramontin and Samhita Bharadwaj 

Introducing our promo trailer of the Health Innovation podcast series with our panel: Mr. Pradeep Kakkatil, Director of Innovations, from the UNAIDS Office of Innovation and Dr. Velislava Petrova, a Research Fellow at UNAIDS. 

This podcast series will delve into the healthcare landscape and brings to surface the essence and knowledge of innovation. An insightful conversation to come, we welcome you onboard this interesting series by introducing to you what is in store on this series and to hope you join us for our Episode 1 and 2 premier very soon!

Hosted by Ludovica Tramontin and Samhita Bharadwaj

Samhita and Thomas Gidney 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.

Further references and sources are given below. 

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Further Sources:

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. 

Did you know that by social distancing, you can literally save lives? In this second Health Intl podcast episode on the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor Vinh-Kim Nguyen, co-director of the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute and VP of MSF Switzerland, calls in from Montreal (where he flew to be on the frontlines of the response to the outbreak) to chat with students Esther Pak and Ezekiel Boro about COVID-19 and age, vegetarianism, vitamins, immunity and soap. They also talk epidemiology (and a bit of math) and how real the reported global numbers are, as well as what we can all do to help each other during these trying times. Professor Nguyen is an HIV and Emergency physician and medical anthropologist who has been on the frontlines of the Ebola epidemic as MSF team leader, and since 1994 has worked extensively with community organizations responding to the HIV epidemic in West Africa as a trainer and physician.

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

Logo by: Stephane Bernhard

Music by: Patryk Skowroński and Patryk Skowroński- Candy

Edited by: Michelle Olguin Flückliger

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

Logo by: Stephane Bernhard

Music by: Patryk Skowroński and Patryk Skowroński- Candy

Edited by: Michelle Olguin Flückliger