A Shot in the Arm Podcast
Welcome to A Shot In The Arm Podcast, where we take a deep dive into the heart of global health. Since our launch in 2019, we've released over 150 episodes that illuminate the intersection of innovation and equity in healthcare. Join me, your host Ben Plumley—a global infectious disease strategist and passionate HIV advocate, along with our expert team of co-hosts, as we engage in compelling, character-driven conversations with a diverse array of guests from around the world. Together, we explore the intricate connections between everyday lives and biomedical research, tackling pressing issues like pandemic preparedness, climate disruption, and the impact of conflict. Tune in as we uncover the stories and insights that shape our collective health narrative, making complex topics both entertaining and accessible. Let's embark on this journey to improve lives, one episode at a time!
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 174
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Global Health Diplomats: The 2024 US Election
In this special episode of the Global Health Diplomats, hosted by Ben Plumley and Professor Eric Goosby, the focus is on the upcoming US presidential election and its implications for global health d…
00:50:09 |
Sun 03 Nov 2024
Sharing the Mic with Frontline AIDS: Africa’s Forgotten Mpox Outbreaks
We are Sharing The Mic again with Frontline AIDS to highlight the latest mpox outbreaks that have started in the Democratic Republic of Congo, spread to Burundi and beyond. From lack of access to acc…
00:50:11 |
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Reflecting on the UN Summits with Wame Jallow
At the end of September’s UN events fest at the UN in NY, Ben and friend of the pod, Wame Jallow, catch up and ask, was it worth it? Lots of talking, lots of walking, declarations on the future, on a…
00:35:22 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Made in Africa mRNA Vaccines: A talk with Dr. Petro Terblanche of Afrigen Biologics & Vaccine
Ben recently sat down with Dr. Petro Terblanche, the head of Afrigen, Africa’s first mRNA vaccine researcher and manufacturer. From the calamities of COVID-19 vaccine populism, the African public hea…
00:34:18 |
Sun 06 Oct 2024
WHO at AIDS 2024
Jeff Sturchio catches up with friend of the pod, Dr. Meg Doherty, WHO’s Director of HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. It has been a busy week at the Munich AIDS Conference for the Wor…
00:21:09 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
South African Youth taking centre stage at AIDS 2024 (speaking on youth advocacy, activism and community work)
With the #PUTPEOPLEFIRST being the call to action here at the International Aids Society Conference 2024, youth advocate Sinentlantla Gogela catches up with Y-isha Raphael about the work she has been…
00:29:35 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
The G20 and G7 Health & Development Partnership
Ben talks with Hatice Beton and Alan Donnelly about why the G20 established a new partnership on Health & Development in 2018, just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and how the era of pandemics is rad…
00:47:00 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
AIDS 2024: Preparedness for the People
Jeff and Ben sit down with Heidi Larson from the Global Listening Project, reflecting on how the HIV movement influenced pandemic preparedness.
00:20:55 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
Lenacapavir Steals the Show at AIDS 2024
Yvette and Ben meet Gilead’s Dr. Moupali Das to discuss the latest clinical trial results for a new prevention technology that reduces HIV transmission by 100 percent in women. How did the research g…
00:39:18 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
AIDS 2024: A Prescription for PEPFAR
The first full day of #aids2024, sees Ben and Jeff reflecting on the some powerful presentations from the opening plenary - all while Yvette is off chairing sessions of her own. Then friend of the po…
00:48:16 |
Tue 23 Jul 2024
AIDS 2024: Pre-conferences, Satellite Symposia & Press Conferences, Oh My!
In the first episode from #aids2024, Yvette Raphael and Jeff Sturchio join Ben to highlight the scientific data they are excited about that will be presented this week, and take stock of the panoply …
00:38:27 |
Mon 22 Jul 2024
An AIDS 2024 Primer with Infectious Disease Specialist, Ben LaBrot
We’ll be at AIDS2024 podcasting daily, and to give us a primer on what to expect, Ben is joined by infectious disease specialist, Ben LaBrot - on everything from the difference between epidemic contr…
00:48:13 |
Sat 20 Jul 2024
Frontline AIDS Celebrates 30 years of Community Action
Since its ‘birth’ in 1994, Frontline AIDS has worked local communities best placed to carry the shared mission to end AIDS for everyone, everywhere. In this episode, we explore how this unique approa…
00:53:38 |
Wed 10 Jul 2024
Putting HIV back into Pandemics Preparedness at the World Health Assembly
Ben is joined by two friends of the pod, Christine Stegling, Deputy Director of UNAIDS, and Vuyiseka Dubula, Department Head, Community Rights & Gender at the Global Fund, to reflect on what this wee…
00:39:43 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
Taking the Temperature on Climate Health at the World Health Assembly with Foundation S
Vanina Laurent-Ledru, the Director General of Foundation S, the philanthropic organization of Sanofi, joins Ben live on the podcast to chat about the impact of climate change on global health.
00:29:41 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
What we learned at the 77th World Health Assembly with Global Health Council's Elisha Dunn-Georgiou
Ben sits down with Elisha Dunn-Georgiou from the Global Health Council to reflect on decisions made, agreements missed, and funding committed to at the 77th WHA in Geneva, Switzerland.
00:31:39 |
Tue 04 Jun 2024
Access to Medicines - There’s Good News at the World Health Assembly
Some good news to report from Geneva - albeit from an independent cinema in downtown Geneva. The Medicines Patent Pool premiered a short documentary highlighting 10 years of 10 billion doses, and 24 …
00:36:34 |
Wed 29 May 2024
What’s Really At Stake at the World Health Assembly
Ben is joined by Katri Bertram, Berlin-based global health policy strategist, to reflect on yesterday’s WHA developments on international health regulations & the pandemics accord. She also challenge…
00:29:40 |
Wed 29 May 2024
Syphilis on the rise at the World Health Assembly
While the WHA grapples with pandemics preparation today, we go behind the headlines to chat with World Health Organization’s Dr. Teo Wi about a report on the dramatic rise of sexually transmitted dis…
00:35:38 |
Tue 28 May 2024
Back to the Future at the World Health Assembly
Our first episode from the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva Switzerland, sees us introducing a new host, Jeff Sturchio, who walks Ben through the key issues to watch this week - top of the list a…
00:33:50 |
Mon 27 May 2024
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