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The CommonHealth is the podcast of the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security. On The CommonHealth, hosts J. Stephen Morrison and Katherine Bliss delve deeply into the puzzle that connects pandemic preparedness and response, HIV/AIDS, routine immunization, and primary care, areas of huge import to human and national security. The CommonHealth replaces under a single podcast the Coronavirus Crisis Update, Pandemic Planet and AIDS Existential Moment. 

 

The CommonHealth is produced by Marla Hiller.

Podcast Series by J. Stephen Morrison, Katherine E. Bliss, and H. Andrew Schwartz

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Rep. Adam Smith on Engaging China

Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security discussion with Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, on his experience leading a Congressional delegation to China in late September 2025. 

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — November 14, 2025

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Dr. Rick Brennan: “This is not good for the American soul.”

Dr. Rick Brennan, an acclaimed Australian humanitarian leader who led WHO and NGO crisis response in multiple conflicts over several decades, walks us through his personal story.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — November 7, 2025

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Peter Piot, LSHTM: “A brilliant coalition” essential to success

The renowned global health leader, Peter Piot, LSHTM, opens this conversation with reflections on what drove the historic global health successes, including “a brilliant coalition” and U.S. bipartisan leadership grounded in statecraft and strategic thinking.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — September 18, 2025

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Dr. Celine Gounder, KFF Health News: "Silence was paralysis"

Dr. Celine Gounder, Editor-at-Large, KFF Health News, explains how the U.S. vaccine enterprise could be damaged so swiftly by the Trump administration, with so little apparent resistance.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — September 11, 2025

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CommonHealth Live! with PAHO’s Dr. Jarbas Barbosa

In the fifteenth episode of the Common Health Live!, Katherine E. Bliss talks with Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

Podcast Episode by Katherine E. Bliss — September 4, 2025

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Dr. Andriy Klepikov, Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine):  "We are still standing." 

Dr. Andriy Klepikov, the founder and executive director of the Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine), reflects on the Alliance's remarkable evolution over the past 25 years into a major Ukrainian—and regional—non-governmental force in HIV, TB, and harm reduction programs.

Podcast Episode by J. Stephen Morrison — August 14, 2025

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