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.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 76
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2023
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.
Panellists:
- Dr Toomas Palu, Adviser on Global Coordinati…
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 Asia Pacific and the Middle East at Women in Globa…
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 Papua New Guinea, a country still seeking to embed a …
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 Infectious Disease Research and Development funding …
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 forward to future resilience, and what systems can…
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 health community? In particular, what did we learn abo…
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 roundtable in Melbourne Robin Davies, First Assistant Secr…
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 about how they have fared during the pandemic.
On…
“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 of Infectious Diseases Epidemiology at Monash Uni…
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 movement to create societies focused on well-being.
Aft…
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 disease.
TB continues to be a blight in the Indo-Pacif…
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 are at the forefront of dealing with the effects o…
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 Regulations (IHR). The IHR is a legally-binding instrument …
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 Brett Sutton, the Chief Health Officer of Victoria, …
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, what have we learnt in the last two years about pand…
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 of Health in the Kingdom of Bhutan in conversati…
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 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. We are proud …
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 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Today's episod…
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 Foreign Affairs and Trade.
As we mark World AIDS Day …
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 Foreign Affairs and Trade.
This episode is hosted by …