Contain This: The Latest in Global Health Security
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Contain This: The Latest in Global Health Security
Produced for the Australian Government's Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, this fortnightly podcast will bring you insightful information and updates on what is shaping the future of global health.
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Reflections from Dr Stephanie Williams and Dr Lucas de Toca, Australia’s new Ambassador for Global Health
In the final episode of Contain This this season, we are joined by Australia’s Ambassador for Global Health, Dr Lucas de Toca PSM, and the former Amba...
Training health care workers in PNG and Solomon Islands through the Field Epidemiology in Action program
In today’s episode of Contain This, we feature the Field Epidemiology in Action (FEiA) program, which trains field epidemiologists in Papua New Guinea...
From the field: Supporting health outcomes in Vanuatu through DFAT’s Australian Volunteers Program
The Australian Volunteers Program is an Australian Government-funded initiative that supports global volunteering across the Pacific, Asia, and Africa...
The state of gender equality in global health: A deep dive into the 6th Global Health 50/50 report
Launched earlier this year, the sixth Global Health 50/50 report focussed for the first time on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in th...
Revolutionising access to digital menstrual health information for girls: Oky app
"I want to know what to do when I get my first period and what changes to expect during puberty, so I feel prepared, assured and confident to manage t...
‘Bad medicines’: The fight to stamp out substandard and falsified medicines in the Indo-Pacific
What are ‘bad medicines’? How do they make it onto our shelves? And what is being done to address substandard and falsified medicines in the Indo-Paci...
A conversation with Sir Jeremy Farrar, WHO’s new Chief Scientist
Our guest this week is Sir Jeremy Farrar, the World Health Organization’s new Chief Scientist, who took up the role earlier this year.
As Chie...
The importance of civil society in pandemic preparedness. A conversation with Carolyn Reynolds from the Pandemic Action Network
Our guest this week is Carolyn Reynolds, Co-founder of the Pandemic Action Network (PAN).
In this episode we discuss how Carolyn’s involvement...
Insights from the Climate, Health and International Development Seminar: Paul Mitchell, Save the Children (Part 2)
You can access the slides from Paul’s presentation here.
We encourage you to join the conversation at @CentreHealthSec. You can also foll...
Insights from the Climate, Health and International Development Seminar: Professor Kathryn Bowen, University of Melbourne (Part 1)
The Global Health Division at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade recently presented the second of its Health and Development Seminar Series:...
Empowering community leaders to advocate for COVID-19 vaccines through the vaccine champions programme
In this week’s episode, we bring you a panel discussion on how the vaccine champions programme has empowered community leaders to advocate for COVID-1...
What is the current status of the malaria epidemic? A conversation with Dr James Kelley from WHO’s Regional Office for the Western Pacific
Our guest this week is Dr James Kelley, Team Lead for Malaria and Vector-borne Diseases in the World Health Organization’s Western Pacific Regional Of...
Advancing women's sexual reproductive rights in Vietnam – Hang Nguyen, MSI Reproductive Choices
Our guest this week is Ms Hang Nguyen, the Vietnam Country Director for MSI Reproductive Choices, formerly Marie Stopes International.
With alm...
Progressing health equity for persons with disabilities – Villaney Remengesau, Pacific Disability Forum (Part 2)
In this second episode of our two-part series on disability and healthy equity, our guest this week is Villaney Remengesau, based in Palau, who is the...
A conversation with WHO’s new Chief Nursing Officer, Dr Amelia Afuhaʻamango Tuʻipulotu
Our guest this week is Dr Amelia Afuhaʻamango Tuʻipulotu, the World Health Organization’s new Chief Nursing Officer.
Dr Amelia was the Kingdom...
Progressing health equity for persons with disabilities – Darryl Barrett, WHO (Part 1)
Our guest this week is Darryl Barrett, technical lead for disability with the World Health Organization in Geneva, who joins us to discuss the WHO Glo...
Coordinating multidisciplinary, rapid support for outbreak response – a conversation with Dr Sharon Salmon, GOARN
Our guest this week is Dr Sharon Salmon, technical officer for the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), hosted by the World Health Orga...
Annual Ruth Bishop Address 2022
We are proud to present the 2022 Annual Ruth Bishop Address.
Professor Ruth Bishop AC led a team of researchers to the landmark discovery of rot...
How is One Health being approached in the Pacific? A conversation with Dr Salanieta Saketa
This week we continue our analysis of One Health, bringing you a discussion about how One Health approaches are being advanced in the Pacific with Dr...
Making the case for a One Health approach: From the 7th World One Health Congress in Singapore
From the seventh World One Health Congress held earlier this month in Singapore, we bring you this conversation with Dr Osman Dar and Dr Catherine Mac...
The state of universal health coverage in Southeast Asia and the Pacific post-pandemic. A panel with the World Bank.
In this episode we’re joined by a panel of experts from the World Bank to discuss universal health coverage in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
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A rights-based perspective: Addressing gender equality in global health security - Dr Shubha Nagesh, Women in Global Health
This week’s guest is Dr Shubha Nagesh, a medical doctor and a public health physician in India. She is currently the chapter development manager for A...
Developing a fit-for-purpose Covid-19 vaccine programme in Papua New Guinea: A conversation with Mr Api Kassman
Vaccine hesitancy has been a particular challenge for governments and health teams around the world as COVID-19 vaccines have been rolled out. In Papu...
Who is funding R&D for emerging infectious diseases? Dr Paul Barnsley, Policy Cures Research
Last month at the Global Health Security Conference in Singapore, Policy Cures Research launched their second edition of the Landscape of Emerging Inf...
Towards resilience: Professor Mika Salminen, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
As the global health community continues to examine how prepared we were for a pandemic, this week’s episode asks – how can we move the conversation f...
Redesigning systems to focus on people, not pathogens: A conversation with Dr Fifa Rahman and Dr Bill Rodriguez
As we move from COVID-19 as a pandemic, to COVID-19 as a virus, this week’s episode asks – what did we learn about pandemic response as a global healt...
Discussions from the Future Funding Priorities in Health Security in the Indo-Pacific Roundtables: A conversation with Professor Jodie McVernon, The Doherty Institute
The Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security has begun a series of roundtables across the country on Future Funding Priorities.
At the recent ro...
Australia’s Partnership for Human Development in Timor Leste: A conversation with Armandina Gusmao Amaral
Australian Ambassador for Regional Health Security, Stephanie Williams, is back on the road to meet with Australia’s partners in the region and learn...
“We’re trying to stop people getting sick”: A conversation about preventing, containing and treating a pandemic with infectious disease specialist and an epidemiologist, Professor Allen Cheng
Today’s episode features Professor Allen Cheng, the Director of the Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology unit at Alfred Health, Professor...
World Health Day 2022: Health and wellbeing in Fiji with Dr James Fong, Permanent Secretary, and Dr Aalisha Sahukhan, Head of Health Protection, Fijian Ministry of Health and Medical Services
World Health Day this Thursday, 7 April will focus global attention on urgent actions needed to keep humans and the planet healthy and foster a moveme...
Marking World Tuberculosis Day with Dr Mel Spigelman, Dr Margaret Kal from PNG and Dr Philipp du Cros
This Thursday, 24 March is World Tuberculosis Day. An estimated 9.9 million people fell ill with TB in 2020 and 1.5 million people died from the disea...
Celebrating women in public health: A special discussion with Beverly Kirk, the Executive Director of JOURNEY, at the Australian Embassy in Washington, D.C. for International Women’s Day 2022
The theme for International Women's Day 2022 is "Gender equality today for a sustainable world tomorrow." Women and girls in the Indo-Pacific region a...
How the International Health Regulations shaped the global response to COVID-19: A conversation with Australian expert Dr Alex Phelan from Georgetown University
At the centre of the international response to the COVID-19 pandemic was a set of public health obligations called the International Health Regulation...
Episode 2: “You can’t over-invest in public health”: A conversation with Professor Brett Sutton, Chief Health Officer of Victoria
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, not many Australians could tell you who the state’s Chief Health Officer was. In this episode we talk to Professor Bre...
A “no-regrets” policy for pandemic preparedness and response: A conversation with White House advisor Beth Cameron
One thing we know about the COVID-19 pandemic is that not one state or organisation was adequately prepared for a health crisis of this scale. So, wha...
Bhutan: Malaria Elimination and COVID-19 Vaccination Challenges
The latest episode in our Indo-Pacific Health Leaders series features Dr Karma Lhazeen, Director of the Department of Medical Services at the Ministry...
Ruth Bishop Lecture 2021 Dr Sarthak Das APLMA
Welcome to Contain This, brought to you by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, an initiative of the Australian Government housed at the Depar...
Indo-Pacific Health Leaders Series: Dr Ari Probandari and Dr Virginia Wiseman
Welcome to Contain This brought to you by the Indo-Pacific Center for Health Security, an initiative of the Australian Government housed at the Depart...
Innovations in HIV Response in PNG
Welcome to Contain This, brought to you by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, an initiative of the Australian Government's Department of For...
WISH Fiji: Building resilient watersheds and healthy communities in the Pacific, Part 2.
Welcome to Contain This, brought to you by the Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, an initiative of the Australian Government's Department of For...