
The Global Health Politics Podcast
Hosted by Joseph Harris, the Global Health Politics podcast features intimate, one-of-a-kind conversations with leading scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and activists working on critical issues in global health.
Episodes
11 episodes
Episode 11: Prerna Singh on the Comparative Politics of Vaccination in China and India
In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, I sit down with Brown University political scientist Prerna Singh to discuss her latest book project, Moral Vaccination: How Ideas and Institutions Controlled Contagion in China and Ind...
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Episode 11
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1:10:18

Episode 10: Emily Mendenhall on COVID-19, Syndemics, and Community
In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, I sit down with Georgetown University anthropologist Emily Mendenhall to discuss her book, Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji. We talk about her past work on non-c...
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Episode 10
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1:07:40

Episode 9: Ann Swidler on HIV/AIDS Altruism in Malawi
In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, I sit down with UC-Berkeley Sociologist Ann Swidler to learn from her more than two decades of experience studying the aid industry, global health, culture, and institutions in Malawi amid ...
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Episode 9
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1:38:35

Episode 8: Kim Yi Dionne on Pandemic Response in Africa
In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, I sit down with UC-Riverside Political Scientist Kim Yi Dionne to talk about pandemic response in Africa, the discipline of political science, and her engagement with Malawi.
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Episode 8
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57:24

Episode 7: Adia Benton on Military Power and Public Health
In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, Joseph Harris sits down with Northwestern University anthropologist Adia Benton. They talk about her book, HIV Exceptionalism, her recent work on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the...
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Episode 7
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1:09:47

Episode 6: Tim Schwab on the Bill Gates Problem
In this episode, I sit down with Tim Schwab, a freelance investigative journalist, whose new book, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of a Good Billionaire, critically examines the profound influence of one of global health's bigge...
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Episode 6
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26:47

Episode 5: Alexandre White on Epidemic Orientalism
In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, I sit down with Alexandre (Sasha) White, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University, who is jointly affiliated with the School of Medicine and Department of the History...
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Episode 5
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1:14:12

Episode 4: Themrise Khan on White Saviorism in International Development
In this episode of the Global Health Politics Podcast, Joseph Harris sits down with Themrise Khan, a Pakistan-based development professional. They talk about Khan and her colleague's Kanakulya Dickson and Maike Sondarjee's groundbreaking new ed...
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Episode 4
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42:30

Episode 3: Eduardo J. Gómez on Junk Food Politics
In this episode, we have a conversation with Dr. Eduardo Gómez, Professor in the Department of Community and Population Health and Director of the Institute of Health Policy and Politics at Lehigh University. A political scientist by tra...
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Episode 3
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43:02

Episode 2: Adeola Oni-Orisan on Maternal Death Narratives
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Adeola Oni-Orisan. who is an Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UC-Davis. Dr. Oni-Orisan holds an MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Medical Anthropology from UCSF and is...
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Episode 2
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32:59

Episode 1: Jallicia Jolly on Transnational Reproductive Justice Organizing
This week's podcast features a conversation with Dr. Jallicia Jolly. Dr. Jolly is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Black Studies at Amherst College, and a poet, public scholar, equity practitioner, and reproductive justice organiz...
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Episode 1
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