Global Health (Video) Podcast
1) The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug with Steffanie Strathdee and Thomas Patterson
Delve into the realms of predatory superbugs with infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, psychologist Thomas Patterson. This is an incredible story of Strathdee’s fight...Show More
2) Bone Injuries Around the World: A New Perspective
Trauma injuries affect millions in the the global community every year. Hear from orthopoaedic surgeons who lead surgical missions and use the power of surgical education to save limbs and save lives ...Show More
3) Diane Havlir: SEARCHing for the End of AIDS
A profile of Diane Havlir, MD and her work in ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic, from co-founding the much admired Getting to Zero consortium in San Francisco to her Sustainable East African Research on C...Show More
4) Drug Decriminalization and Tijuana’s AIDS Epidemic with Sir Richard Branson
Sir Richard Branson joins UC San Diego’s Steffanie Strathdee, Patricia Gonzalez-Zuniga, MD, and author Jon Cohen for a discussion on the costs of criminalizing drug use on marginalized communities in...Show More
Drug Decriminalization and Tijuana’s AIDS Epidemic with Sir Richard Branson
58:43 | Jul 18th, 2016
5) Postcard From The Trenches: Tijuana’s Hidden Epidemics of HIV and Tuberculosis with Steffanie Strathdee -- Degrees of Health and Well-Being
Epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee of UC San Diego shares stories of her global health team’s intervention efforts that have helped curb the spread of HIV and tuberculosis in Tijuana and other poor re...Show More
6) Neglected Diseases: Can Social Good Trump Profit? -- Exploring Ethics
Neglected diseases, or more specifically neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), refer to major global health problems that affect hundreds of millions of people. Despite the huge burden of these diseases...Show More
7) Editing the Genome of Mosquitoes -- Exploring Ethics
How should we balance the benefits of limiting or possibly eliminating a disease that kills 1000 people a day against the possible disruption of an ecosystem? Valentino Gantz, and Ethan Bier recently ...Show More
8) Pharmacists Drug Development and Neglected Tropical Diseases - Health Matters
Neglected tropical diseases like Chagas disease and schistosimiasis affect millions worldwide. Many not only cause physical symptoms but create a cycle of poverty difficult to overcome. James McKerrow...Show More
Pharmacists Drug Development and Neglected Tropical Diseases - Health Matters
26:09 | Nov 19th, 2015
9) El Bordo -- HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana - Episode 1
In the first of a four-part series, UC San Diego epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and psychologist Tom Patterson start the story of how their research teams have traced the spread of HIV in Tijuana....Show More
10) The Clinics at Prevencasa -- HIV/SIDA: The Epidemic in Tijuana Episode 2
In the second of a four-part series based on “Tomorrow Is a Long Time: Tijuana’s Unchecked HIV/AIDS Epidemic,” Dr. Jose Luis Burgos guides medical students from UC San Diego and Universidad Autónoma d...Show More