New Security Broadcast
Tune in to our podcast to hear expert speakers on the links between global environmental change, security, development, and health. The Environmental Change and Security Program is a part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the living, national memorial to President Wilson established by Congress in 1968 and headquartered in the District of Columbia. It is a nonpartisan institution, supported by public and private funds, engaged in the study of national and world affairs. The Center establishes and maintains a neutral forum for free, open, and informed dialogue. For more information, visit www.wilsoncenter.org/ecsp and www.newsecuritybeat.org.This podcast was formerly titled "Friday Podcasts From ECSP and MHI," and included contributions from the Wilson Center's Maternal Health Initiative (MHI).
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2023
Episode 249: Introducing New Security Broadcast
“To inform the most pressing issues of our time, to bring new voices to the policy space, and to help our audience better understand these complex connections and where we can be most effective in ou…
00:02:42 |
Thu 16 Sep 2021
Episode 248: The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed: A Conversation with Co-authors Robin Broad and John Cavanagh
“Many people have watched fights between communities and big corporations around the world. The corporations usually win so those are the Goliath. The Davids usually lose,” says John Cavanagh, co-aut…
00:36:24 |
Fri 10 Sep 2021
Episode 247: Engaging Marginalized Groups is Essential to Achieving Universal Health Coverage
Too often, many in my community are excluded from sexual and reproductive health services, said Ruth Morgan Thomas, co-founder and Global Coordinator of the Global Network of Sex Work Projects, in to…
00:19:16 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
Episode 246: John Scanlon on the Case for Criminalizing Wildlife Trafficking under International Law
“The world is still feeling the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic which most likely had its origins in a wild animal,” says John Scanlon AO, Former Secretary-General of CITES (the Convention on Int…
00:10:09 |
Thu 08 Jul 2021
Episode 245: The Cost of Care: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Exacerbated the Baby Bust
The decision to have a child usually requires a feeling of stability and confidence in the future, says Natascha Braumann, Director of Global Government and Public Affairs for Fertility at EMD Serono…
00:20:01 |
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Episode 244: A Conversation with Dr. Nahid Toubia: Bodily Autonomy and the 2021 State of World Population Report
Bodily autonomy is something almost innate in us, and yet also a Eureka moment for many people, says Dr. Nahid Toubia, Director for the Institute of Reproductive Health and Rights in Sudan on this we…
00:28:30 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Episode 243: Sue Biniaz on Getting the U.S. Back on Track for Climate Action
“The more the United States can get itself back on track, the better position it is in to exercise climate leadership,” says Sue Biniaz, a member of Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry’…
00:11:23 |
Fri 19 Mar 2021
Episode 242: A Conversation with Marisa O. Ensor on Securitizing Youth and Youth’s Role in Peace and Security Agendas
“I've been quite impressed by the wide diversity and complexity of young women's and men's engagement for peacebuilding and development often while confronting seemingly insurmountable challenges,” s…
00:18:51 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Episode 241: Reviving Culture Through First Nations Midwifery
“It's more than just clinical care. It's cultural. It's connection to country. It's connection to land. It's all of those things that are important to the woman and family, kinship, babies,” says Mel…
00:27:43 |
Thu 04 Mar 2021
Episode 240: A Conversation with Steven Gale on USAID’s New Foresight Unit
“I think most people will agree today that the development landscape is, well, it’s highly uncertain, it's increasingly complex,” says Steven Gale, Lead of the Futures/Foresight Team at the U.S Agenc…
00:23:46 |
Thu 25 Feb 2021
Episode 239: Native American Midwives Help Navajo Families Thrive
When Navajo Midwife Nicolle Gonzales talks with Native American women about birth, there's a sense something is missing, she said in this week’s Friday Podcast. “But,” she said, “we don’t know what i…
00:34:35 |
Thu 18 Feb 2021
Episode 238: Valerie M. Hudson on How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide
“The very first political order in any society is the sexual political order established between men and women,” says Valerie M. Hudson, a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M, in today’s …
00:13:51 |
Fri 22 Jan 2021
Episode 237: “Climate is the Multilateral Challenge of the Moment”: Highlights from a Conversation on Climate Change, Multilateralism, and Equity
“After a period of populist nationalism…multilateralism is back, and climate is the multilateral challenge of the moment,” said David Lammy, a member of Parliament for Tottenham in the United Kingdom…
00:14:10 |
Fri 18 Dec 2020
Episode 236: Māori Midwives on the Power of Indigenous Birthing Practices
Camille Harris, Registered Māori Midwife, is unapologetic about her decision to study midwifery and practice exclusively with Māori families, in this week’s Friday Podcast. “It was always to serve my…
00:34:28 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
Episode 235: Vanessa Nakate on Giving Weight to the Voices of Those Most Affected by Climate Change
“We need to give more weight to the voices of people who are most affected by climate change,” says Vanessa Nakate, a prominent Ugandan climate activist, in this week’s Friday Podcast. At the local, …
00:16:26 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Episode 234: Midwife-Delivered Interventions Could Provide Dramatic Benefits
In a year that has presented enormous challenges, it is even more gratifying to present evidence that strengthens the importance of midwives as providers of essential sexual and reproductive health (…
00:16:43 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Episode 233: “An Idea Born of Desperation”: Simon Nicholson on Solar Radiation Management
“If solar radiation management were done well—that is, the science is right, the engineering is right, and the policy and governance frameworks around all of the stuff work—then solar radiation manag…
00:21:33 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
Lessons from Africa: Building Resilience through Community-Based Health Systems
If there’s anything about responding to an epidemic, it’s that speed matters, and so does investing in people closest to the problem, said Dr. Raj Panjabi, Assistant Professor of medicine at Harvard …
00:50:20 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
The Importance of Community Trust to Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
“Vaccine hesitancy is to be expected in a normal circumstance—it’s very different from being what we call ‘anti-vaccine,’” says Dr. Rahul Gupta, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical and Health Off…
00:19:36 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
The Resurgence of Indigenous Midwifery in Canada, New Zealand, and Mexico
Globally, Indigenous women experience worse maternal health outcomes than non-Indigenous women. In the United States, the risk of maternal death is twice as high for Native women than for white women…
00:23:08 |
Thu 15 Oct 2020
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