COVID-19 is Interrupting Routine Childhood Vaccinations on a Global Scale
Barbara Saitta is a nurse with Doctors without Borders who specializes in vaccination campaigns, primarily in poorer countries. She tells me that because of supply chain interruptions, a number of cou...
25 Touko 202029min
How Female Entrepreneurs Can Light Up Rural Rwanda
Just over 52% of households in Rwanda have access to some form of electricity. This access is not evenly distributed across Rwanda. In rural communities, where most Rwandans live, energy access rates ...
21 Touko 202027min
Liberia Confronts the Coronavirus
My guest today, Dr. Mosoka P Fallah is helping to lead Liberia's fight against COVID-19. He is an infectious disease and public health expert and is the Director General National Public Health Instit...
18 Touko 202030min
How the Coronavirus Pandemic is Stifling Free Speech
My guest, David Kaye, is the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression. He has held this position for the last three years, which has given him a unique vantage point--and unique pla...
14 Touko 202030min
An Inside Look at How the United Nations is Marking Its 75th Anniversary
The United Nations turns 75 this year. But rather than have a diamond jubilee, the UN is instead embarking on a listening tour. The UN is seeking feedback from as many people in as many communities a...
11 Touko 202032min
Lebanon is in the Midst of a Jaw-Dropping Economic Free Fall
Lebanon is in the midst of an economic free fall, the degree to which is jaw dropping. Inflation is out of control, commodities are hard to come by, and its currency is devaluing at a rapid clip. Thi...
7 Touko 202030min
Climate Change and the COVID-19 Economic Recovery
Today's episode was recorded in front of a live-online audience, and featured an all-star panel discussing how to make the economic recovery from COVID-19 sustainable, just, and resilient. In other w...
4 Touko 20201h 15min
New Research Finds a Link Between Fires, Children's Health, and a Country's GDP
My guest, Prachi Singh, is an associate fellow at the Brookings Institution, India Center and is a PhD candidate at Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi. Her research analyzed height and weight ratios...
30 Huhti 202028min
