The Global Health Politics Podcast

Season 3, Episode 4: Brent Kaup and Kelly Austin on The Pathogens of Finance

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the podcast, Joseph Harris sits down with William and Mary Professor Brent Kaup and Lehigh Professor Kelly Austin to discuss their ne

Season 3, Episode 3: Mardia Stone on Liberia's Ebola Response

Send us Fan Mail At a moment when the world is grappling with an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that is spiraling out of control, Joseph Harris s

Season 3, Episode 2: Susan Erikson on Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance, A Cautionary Tale

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris sits down with anthropologist Susan Erikson. They talk about her extraordinary new book, Investable: When Pandemic Risk M

Season 3, Episode 1: Sapna Desai on Women's Health and Unnecessary Hysterectomy

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris sits down to talk with Dr. Sapna Desai, a Senior Fellow at the Population Council Institute in New Delhi, India. A public

Season 2, Episode 12: Lioba Hirsch on Antiblackness and Global Health

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris sits down with Dr. Lioba Hirsch, a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. They talk about her ne

Season 2, Episode 11: Katharina Krause and Brooke Bocast on The Many Ways of Doing Research on Global Health Politics

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with two researchers doing very exciting - but also very different - kinds of research on global health politics. In the fir

Season 2, Episode 10: District of Columbia Shadow Representative to Congress Oye Owolewa on Political Advocacy in a Time of Occupation

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris sits down with Adeoye "Oye" Owolewa. A pharmacist recognized for his efforts to protect public health, Dr. Owolewa has se

Season 2, Episode 9: New York Times Best- Selling Author John Green on Global Health Injustice and Tuberculosis

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris sits down with New York Times best-selling author John Green to talk about his new book, Everything is Tuberculosis. Best

Season 2, Episode 8: Madhu Pai on Global Health Inequality

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris sits down with one of the most prominent voices in global health today, Dr. Madhu Pai. Dr. Pai is a medical doctor and Ca

Season 2, Episode 7: Thurka Sangaramoorthy on Immigration and Health

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris sits down with American University anthropologist Thurka Sangaramoorthy to discuss her work on immigration and health. Th

Season 2, Episode 6: James Pfeiffer on Debt, Austerity, and Decolonization

Send us Fan Mail In this long-awaited episode, originally recorded in Fall 2022, Joseph Harris sits down with Dr. James Pfeiffer, Professor of Global Health and Anthropo

Season 2, Episode 5: Claire Decoteau on the COVID-19 Emergency and the Failure of Pandemic Response

Send us Fan Mail In this podcast episode, Joseph Harris sits down with University of Illinois-Chicago Professor of Sociology Claire Decoteau. They discuss her latest boo

Season 2, Episode 4: The Community Health Impact Coalition's Campaign to Professionalize Community Health Work Globally

Send us Fan Mail Many health systems around the world rely on community health workers (CHWs) who play vital roles in health promotion, disease prevention, and primary c

Season 2, Episode 3: Jenny Trinitapoli on HIV/AIDS and Epidemics of Uncertainty

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris sits down with University of Chicago sociologist Jenny Trinitapoli. They discuss her new book, An Epidemic of Uncertainty

Season 2, Episode 2: Victor Roy Explains How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicine

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris sits down with University of Pennsylvania physician and sociologist Victor Roy. They discuss the issues that are at the c

Season 2, Episode 1: Julia Lynch on Political Science and the Political Economy of Health

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, Joseph Harris sits down with University of Pennsylvania political scientist Julia Lynch to discus

Episode 12: The Dismantling of U.S. Foreign Aid and the Consequences for Global Health

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Joseph Harris explores the actions taken by the Trump administration to dismantle U.S. foreign aid and the consequences that these acti

Episode 11: Prerna Singh on the Comparative Politics of Vaccination in China and India

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, I sit down with Brown University political scientist Prerna Singh to discuss her latest book proj

Episode 10: Emily Mendenhall on COVID-19, Syndemics, and Community

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, I sit down with Georgetown University anthropologist Emily Mendenhall to discuss her book, Unmask

Episode 9: Ann Swidler on HIV/AIDS Altruism in Malawi

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, I sit down with UC-Berkeley Sociologist Ann Swidler to learn from her more than two decades of ex