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
Healthy Women, Healthy Economies: Gender Parity in the Workplace
“When you get to the power of voice, you have to be brave and you have to be that person that will speak up and say this isn’t right, but I want to be a part of the solution,” said Eileen Martin, the…
00:12:40 |
Fri 31 May 2019
Africa in Transition: Highlights from a Conversation on Investing in Youth for Economic Prosperity
Africa in Transition, a new series hosted by the Wilson Center and the Population Institute, explores the role of population trends—migration, urbanization, fertility, maternal mortality—in shaping s…
00:17:13 |
Fri 24 May 2019
International Aid, Local Capacity Building: Improving Community Health Through Partnerships
Seeing the influx of international aid into Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, Dr. Florence Jean-Louis, Director of Human Development at Fonkoze, asked herself, “How can all this support, all this …
00:22:21 |
Fri 17 May 2019
Attitudes, Hotspots, and Role Models: Promoting Family Planning in Rural Communities
“Strengthening community health is critical to expanding voluntary family planning,” said A. Jean Affo, Chief of Party at Advancing Partners & Communities (APC) Benin at a recent Wilson Center event …
00:18:36 |
Fri 17 May 2019
Ambassador Marcia Bernicat on the U.S. Global Water Strategy
The overarching goal of the U.S. Global Water Strategy is to create a more water secure world, said Ambassador Marcia Bernicat, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Oceans, and Inte…
00:06:41 |
Fri 05 Apr 2019
A Look Downstream: Thoughtful Water Infrastructure Planning May Yield Economies of Flexibility
Three big trends are coming, said Ken Conca, Professor at American University’s School for International Service at a recent Wilson Center event that explored the future of water. “We’ll be storing a…
00:12:05 |
Thu 28 Mar 2019
Sam Huston on Stabilizing Water Utilities in Fragile Environments
“One of the interesting things about dealing with water and sanitation issues is that in many ways it’s a crosscutting issue,” said Sam Huston, Chief of Party at Tetra Tech’s USAID-supported Water Su…
00:38:01 |
Fri 22 Feb 2019
Gidon Bromberg on Water and Environmental Peacebuilding
“The Jordan River has been the lifeblood of the Levant,” says Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, in this week’s Water Stories podcast. The river’s importance offers a un…
00:46:03 |
Thu 31 Jan 2019
Patricia Da Silva: ‘The Time is Now’ to Accelerate Progress for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
“Almost everyone of reproductive age—about 4.3 billion people—will not have access to at least one essential or reproductive health intervention over the course of their lives,” said Patricia Da Silv…
00:15:52 |
Thu 24 Jan 2019
Ken Conca on Transboundary Water Basin Management
“When we start talking about water in the context of security, we’re immediately drawn to a conversation about conflict. And that’s often framed in terms of scarcity of water and a real zero-sum game…
00:04:04 |
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Doris Kaberia on Public-Private Partnerships and Holistic Approaches to Water Management in Kenya
“You cannot separate water and health,” says Doris Kaberia in this week’s Water Stories podcast. “People need safe drinking water for them to be healthy.” Kaberia works with Millennium Water Alliance…
00:28:03 |
Thu 10 Jan 2019
Sandra Ruckstuhl on Capturing Practical Lessons on Water, Conflict, and Cooperation
We realized “there was a need for a toolkit on water,” says Sandra Ruckstuhl in this week’s Water Stories podcast, “with a focus of conflict and conflict mitigation, but also peacebuilding.” Ruckstuh…
01:07:20 |
Thu 13 Dec 2018
Aaron Wolf on Transboundary Water Conflict and Cooperation
“Countries—even countries that don’t like each other much—have, and continue to have, conversations over water resources, even when they won’t about other issues,” says Aaron Wolf, Director of Water …
00:21:49 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
Cultivating Meaningful Youth Engagement in Sexual and Reproductive Health Programming
“We need to mainstream young people into the decision-making process,” said Senator Nikoli Edwards, age 25, of Trinidad and Tobago at a recent Wilson Center event on engaging youth to protect their s…
00:12:46 |
Wed 07 Nov 2018
Eliane Razafimandimby: Improving the Quality of Maternal and Child Care
“Even in a weak system without a quality improvement structure, it is possible to support district managers and facility providers to measure and improve quality care,” said Eliane Razafimandimby, Ch…
00:08:09 |
Fri 12 Oct 2018
Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue: Moving from Laundry Lists to Bottom Lines
“A lot of the advocacy of family planning has been built around establishing a long list of the many ways in which family planning can be relevant” to other development goals, says Parfait Eloundou-E…
00:13:30 |
Fri 03 Aug 2018
Jocelyn Ulrich: Enhancing Public Health to Unleash the Economic Power of Women
Healthy Women, Healthy Economies is a global initiative that aims to unleash the “economic power of women by bringing governments, private sector, and other civil sector actors together to improve wo…
00:11:55 |
Fri 27 Jul 2018
Franklin Moore: Fostering Local Innovation Through Community Organization
Africare’s work has been built on a “strong belief that community mobilization and local capacity building and innovation are the cornerstones of successful development, and that, for us, includes re…
00:15:39 |
Fri 20 Jul 2018
One Woman’s Story: Preeclampsia Goes Untreated in Ethiopia
“This is a woman who did exactly what she was supposed to do; she did exactly what we encourage pregnant women to do,” said Amy Dempsey of the Population Council at a recent Wilson Center event on Wo…
00:04:14 |
Fri 15 Jun 2018
Fragile Families: Scaling Up Healthcare in Conflict Settings
“How do our interventions provide an opportunity to really work at some of the core drivers of instability or lack of resilience?” said Larry Cooley from Management Systems International at a recent …
00:07:34 |
Fri 08 Jun 2018
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