Humanosphere Podcast

Humanosphere Podcast episodes:

• 06.30.2017

  See you later! The final Humanosphere podcast – for now

  For today's final Humanosphere podcast, we're going to talk about ourselves - why we do what we do, what are some of our favorite stories and where we go from here. Due to lack of funding, we must now take...

  
• 06.16.2017

  What we mean when we talk about terrorism: A chat with Rebecca Wolfe of Mercy Corps

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we are talking with Rebecca J. Wolfe of Mercy Corps about how we talk about terrorism. No, that's not a grammatical error. We wanted to ask Wolfe, an expert on violence prevention, about the standard narrative...

  
• 06.02.2017

  Inequality rising: A chat with Chuck Collins on what’s driving the world crazy

  For today's Humanosphere podcast, we talk with Chuck Collins at Inequality.org, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning think tank in Washington, D.C. Collins is the author of several books warning against rising wealth concentration and inequality,...

  
• 05.26.2017

  A conversation with Laurie Garrett about the road ahead for the WHO

  The 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva just elected a new director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday. But underfunded and over strapped, what does the road ahead look like for the WHO? To answer that question for...

  
• 05.12.2017

  Getting to zero: Rotary’s stubborn campaign to rid the world of polio

  How close are we to ridding the world of polio, why has it taken so long, and why does this one disease campaign matter so much? For this Humanosphere podcast, Tom Murphy talks with Carol Pandak, director of Rotary’s PolioPlus...

  
• 05.05.2017

  Warren Buffett’s son Peter talks about his music, activism and the need for a new world view

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Peter Buffett, musician, author, activist and youngest son of legendary investor Warren Buffett. Peter Buffett may be more low-profile than his father. But he is a lot more outspoken when it comes to...

  
• 04.28.2017

  Build Change: Pioneering engineer works with communities to protect homes from disasters

  For this Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Elizabeth Hausler, CEO and founder of Build Change – a non-profit organization that works around the world to prevent deaths from earthquakes or other disasters that lead to homes or other buildings collapsing....

  
• 04.21.2017

  Inequality and philanthropy: Author of ‘The Givers’ explains how they can fuel each other

  American philanthropy has been undergoing a major resurgence in the last few decades, leading some to dub this a 'golden age' for giving. At the same time, wealth concentration and inequality, the gap between rich and poor, has been on...

  
• 04.14.2017

  Polaris: On the front lines of fighting human trafficking

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we're talking with a leader in the battle to end human trafficking. Bradley Myles and his colleagues at Polaris has for the past 15 years concentrated his efforts on reducing, and ideally eliminating, a practice that...

  
• 04.07.2017

  On the push for equity, direct democracy and a basic universal income by Iceland’s Pirate Party

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we are talking with Halldóra Mogensen, an MP with Iceland’s Pirate Party. For those who may not be aware of the Pirate Party as a serious political movement - it’s not about dressing up with an...

  
• 03.17.2017

  Podcast: On the ground in Kenya where drought threatens massive famine

  For this week’s Humanosphere podcast we’ll be speaking to Duncan Harvey, Save the Children’s country director in Kenya, about the impact of drought in the country. We're speaking from Wajir, a border town near the Somali border in the far-east...

  
• 03.03.2017

  The fight to end female circumcision in rural Kenya

  For this Humanosphere podcast, we explore one community's battle to end the practice of female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision. Our Nairobi-based correspondent Charlie Ensor talks to Samuel Leadismo, founder of an organization known as the Pastoralist Child...

  
• 02.24.2017

  Ichiro Kawachi: How wealth inequality fuels poor health, and vice versa

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we're talking with Ichiro Kawachi, a physician and epidemiologist at Harvard University about how growing wealth inequality is making us sicker.

  
• 02.17.2017

  On the fight to recognize LGBT rights as human rights

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we are talking to Mark Bromley, who launched the Council for Global Equality to advance a stronger U.S. foreign policy inclusive of gender identities and sexual orientations. The council—a coalition that brings together international human rights activists, foreign policy experts, LGBT...

  
• 02.10.2017

  Dr. Patty Garcia: Peru’s minister of health urges new approach to fighting disease

  For today's Humanosphere podcast, we are talking with Peru's Minister of Health Patty Garcia and the need for systemic change in how we seek to improve health around the world. Garcia says health care and the global health community have...

  
• 02.03.2017

  On the Trump travel ban, refugees and walling off America: Cut off nose, spite face

  For today's Humanosphere podcast, we seek to provide some background and context for the controversy following President Donald Trump's travel-immigration ban aimed at prohibiting entry from select Muslim-majority countries like Syria, Somalia, Iraq and four others to protect us from...

  
• 01.27.2017

  Podcast: After the women’s marches, what’s next for the fight for equity?

  Millions of women took to the streets to make their voices heard. Now what? In today's podcast we talk about the movement unfolding from the marches, and what's next. We’re also going to unpack what this means for the fight...

  
• 01.20.2017

  Facing forward: Finding a narrative for navigating the new global disorder

  Rather than taking our usual tack of interviewing a guest, our small but devoted and talented news team decided that inauguration day for President Donald Trump was an appropriate occasion to highlight some issues we intend to focus on in...

  
• 01.13.2017

  Using insurance to protect the poorest against climate change risks

  For this week’s Humanosphere podcast we’ll be talking about how climate risk insurance can protect the world’s poorest communities against climate risks which can cost them their livelihoods and wider development. We talk with Stewart McCulloch, global insurance director of...

  
• 01.06.2017

  The war on drugs is affecting the developing world, but not in the ways you might think

  In this Humanosphere podcast, we talk with Natasha Horsfield - policy and advocacy officer at Health Poverty Action - about how the world’s war on drugs is hindering economic and social development in developing countries, but not always in the...

  
• 12.23.2016

  Kate Cronin-Furman: How does the world respond to mass atrocities?

  The International Criminal Court had a bad year. South Africa, Burundi and Gambia all took steps to leave the treaty that makes them part of the court. Some fear that the international body that brings justice to leaders who commit...

  
• 12.16.2016

  South Sudan: How to provide maternal and child health care during crisis

  After South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan in 2011, the world’s youngest country has found it difficult to build a stable nation and a functional health system, leaving many mothers at risk for dying during pregnancy and children at...

  
• 12.09.2016

  After Mosul, what’s next for refugees and Iraq’s future?

  The humanitarian fallout from Mosul is expected to be the worst of 2016. This is really saying something, given the scale of the Syrian crisis, and what’s happening in Yemen and South Sudan. As the battle rages on and humanitarian...

  
• 12.02.2016

  Carolyn Miles of Save the Children on protecting kids in today’s world

  For today’s podcast, we’re talking with Carolyn Miles, CEO and president of Save the Children USA, about the challenges children face around the world.

  
• 11.18.2016

  Food writer Nathanael Johnson explores improving the first science of agriculture

  For today's Humanosphere podcast, we talk about food and agriculture with Nathanael Johnson, a writer for the entertaining and insightful environmental news website Grist.org.

  
• 11.11.2016

  Patrick Awuah: Making Ghana the epicenter for an African revolution in education

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Patrick Awuah, a Ghanaian who having done well in the United States – including a stint at Microsoft – has returned to his West African home to start its first liberal arts university.

  
• 11.04.2016

  Fred Bauma: On the front lines of Congo’s fight for democracy

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with a heroic young man from the Democratic Republic of Congo – Fred Bauma. We don’t use the word heroic at Humanosphere too often. Not that we don't regularly write about humanitarians who do...

  
• 10.28.2016

  Violence epidemiology and measuring the real death toll of the Iraq War

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we are talking with Riyadh Lafta, an epidemiologist who focuses on violence and was one of the leading public health researchers who challenged the official U.S. government claims of low civilian casualties from the 2003 Iraq...

  
• 10.21.2016

  Shining a spotlight on government repression in Ethiopia

  For this week's podcast, Humanosphere takes a look at the current situation in Ethiopia with our guest, Hallelujah Lulie, a postgraduate at the London School of Economics and former journalist covering the political and security situation in the country.

  
• 10.14.2016

  Ghanaian activist leads fight to protect small family farms in Africa

  For today's Humanosphere podcast, we are talking to Bernard (Bern) Guri, chairman of an organization in Accra, Ghana, called the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.

  
• 10.07.2016

  The immense job of helping refugees settle into new homes

  With more than 65 million people are displaced globally – the most there have been since World War II – the global refugee crisis has captured the attention of aid groups and political leaders worldwide. Efforts to address the humanitarian problem...

  
• 09.30.2016

  Hilton Foundation honors most influential, invisible group in global health

  Hilton Foundation honors most influential, invisible group in global health

  
• 09.09.2016

  Podcast: Breaking down the complex crisis in Yemen

  While summer has been restful (and eventful, world tragedy-wise), our podcasts had to return to reality sometime, so here we are. For our first podcast of the fall, our U.K. correspondent Charlie Ensor talked to Oxfam America‘s humanitarian policy adviser Scott Paul...

  
• 06.03.2016

  Using media and the arts to combat sexual violence: Mallika Dutt of Breakthrough

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Mallika Dutt, CEO and founder of an organization called Breakthrough, which is devoted to preventing sexual violence and gender discrimination. The statistics on sexual violence against women and girls are stunning: The U.N....

  
• 05.20.2016

  Peter Piot: From tropical medicine to global health

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who is also well known for his role in co-discovering the Ebola virus in then-Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo, in...

  
• 05.13.2016

  Fighting abuse using covert video: A chat with Videre’s Oren Yakobovich

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Oren Yakobovich, CEO and co-founder of an organization based in London called Videre that trains and supports nearly 600 activists in the incredibly important but dangerous task of documenting and reporting on human...

  
• 05.06.2016

  Tax Justice Network’s Alex Cobham on how financial secrecy fuels inequity

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Alex Cobham about how financial secrecy and tax havens fuel inequity around the world. Next week, another installment from the so-called Panama Papers is expected to be released by the international consortium of...

  
• 04.22.2016

  Karen Tse: Expanding the rule of law worldwide, seeking an end to torture

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Karen Tse, founder and executive director of the Geneva-based organization International Bridges to Justice. Tse, an attorney who originally hailed from the San Francisco area, started IBJ in 2000 to fight the stunningly...

  
• 04.15.2016

  Vivek Maru and Namati: The barefoot lawyers brigade

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with Vivek Maru, an activist attorney and CEO of an organization called Namati. Maru is one of this year’s social entrepreneurs recognized at the Skoll World Forum for his efforts to provide justice and...

  
• 04.08.2016

  A chat with Christine Sow: The future of global health

  A few months ago, Ebola was the big story. Now it's Zika. Is our approach to global health a comprehensive strategy or a series of reactions to the threat du jour?

  
• 03.11.2016

  A proposed cure for the jobless economy & citizen-less democracies

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we’re talking with John Nichols and Robert McChesney about their new book People Get Ready. What they say we need to get ready for, to further riff off the 1960s’ song of the same name, is a...

  
• 03.04.2016

  A chat with Mexican author and journalist Juan Villoro

  For this Humanosphere podcast, we talk with Mexican author and journalist Juan Villoro, who is noted for his wide-ranging interests from soccer (futbol!), pop music and Mayan culture to children’s fairy tales, television soap operas and politics. Villoro, who recently...

  
• 02.12.2016

  Who are the winners and losers in the Trans-Pacific Partnership?

  Countries began signing on to the U.S.-led trade deal the Trans-Pacific Partnership, this month. The Obama administration has made the 12-nation deal one of its key achievements while in office. He has made various speeches and appearances to gather support...

  
• 01.29.2016

  A chat with Yoram Bauman, stand-up economist

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast we will be talking to a Stand-Up Economist. Yoram Bauman is, in fact, an economist. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Washington, is actively promoting a carbon-tax initiative here in Washington state...

  
• 01.22.2016

  Oxfam warns that the widening gap between rich and poor endangers us all

  Oxfam again warns that the rich are getting richer and poor poorer.

  
• 11.27.2015

  Sally Osberg, CEO of Skoll Foundation, on social entrepreneurship

  For today’s Humanosphere podcast, we talk with Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally Osberg about the buzz phrase ‘social entrepreneurship’ and the related concept of social enterprise. The Skoll Foundation focuses its philanthropy on this strategy for making the world...

  
• 11.20.2015

  On the fight for human rights and the refugee crisis next door

  There’s another part of the world where civil strife and violence has fueled a refugee crisis – next door in Central America. Here in the U.S., we generally don’t call them refugees and instead prefer to call them ‘migrants’ …...