A Shot in the Arm Podcast

Ramin Bastani, CEO of Healthvana, joins Ben on this week's episode for a fast-paced conversation about how technology can accelerate the receipt of HIV, COVID, and other medical test results to our smartphones, and the opportunities & challenges this brings to patients, their healthcare providers and broader society. This episode was made in partnership with the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, a...

Ben reconnects with Professor Jonna Mazet and meets Professor John Parrish-Sprowl for a wide ranging conversation about a one health approach to addressing pandemics and the range of communications strategies the world needs to make real behavior change, not just for ourselves, but our communities, wildlife and the environment. Jonna and John are members of the One Health Action Collaborative, the...

Joining Ben on the podcast this week, Dr. Rupert Whitaker calls in from COVID lockdown in the UK, to share his life story as one of the UK’s longest surviving people with HIV. Dr. Whitaker was a founding member of the Terrence Higgins Trust and went on to found the Tuke Institute, a think-tank that promotes research into patient-centered healthcare strategies. This episode coincides with the US re...

In this week’s episode, Ben talks with Hema Budaraju, Director of Product Development at Google about how mapping technology can help billions of people around the world get equitable access to health care. This episode was made in partnership with the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, This episode was made in partnership with the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, a network of academic institutions,...

Why are girls and women more impacted by COVID-19? Latanya Mapp Frett of the Global Fund for Women and Mary-Ann Etiebet of Merck for Mothers break down the risks that go well beyond just the virus itself. For more information: www.globalfundforwomen.org www.merckformothers.com https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-harris/ www.cdc.org www.who.int www.bayareaglobalhealth.org https...

On this World AIDS Day, December the 1st 2020, we remember the lives lost to HIV as we fight a new global pandemic, COVID-19, and in this special episode we reflect on the impact diagnostics have had in driving the response to both pandemics, with Dr. Paul Baum, Head, Clinical Science at Roche Molecular Systems and Associate Professor at UCSF.More information:https://www.roche.com/https://www.unai...

In the first episode of this new season, Dr. Tony Fauci, Director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Disease, shares with me his view on the future of COVID-19, his pragmatic optimism for vaccines, the importance of mask-wearing, social distancing and hand washing, the lessons of HIV, and we chill out to a clip of MTV Shuga’s "Alone Together,” short COVID videos for pan African...

In this episode we meet KX Jin, Head of Health at Facebook, and we explore how social networks can be mobilized to provide accurate, updated information about pandemics, like COVID-19, how they can strengthen community engagement in global health, and how technology can combat the dark side of misinformation.https://facebook.comhttps://bayareaglobalhealth.orghttps://coronavirus.ucsf.eduhttps://www...

Earlier this year, Robin Gorna, an internationally respected gender and HIV activist & writer at the height of her powers, was infected with SARS-CoV-2 and became one of an increasing number of people with long term side effects. We discuss the impact of what is clearly more than a short respiratory infection, and what it means for the long term response to COVID-19.For More Information:https://ro...

Join Ben and Congresswoman Barbara Lee live on Wednesday 5th of August, as they discuss racial justice, the impact of COVID-19 on people of color, and the urgent need to support Africa’s fight against the coronavirus as new infections reach 1 million across the continent. For More Informationhttps://lee.house.govhttps://bayareaglobalhealth.orghttps://sfcommunityhealth.orghttps://coronavirus.ucsf.e...

Anthropologist Heidi Larson has a new book titled, Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start -- and Why They Don't Go Away, which explains how logic and science alone cannot debunk vaccine denialism, and we explore how addressing the root 21st century cultural causes of distrust of medicine can help us overcome deliberate misinformation in the global fight against COVID-19. You can purchase the book here:ht...

Dr. Kimberly Smith, a renowned US infectious disease specialist and Head of Research & Development for ViiV Healthcare, joins Ben on the podcast to talk about new data on cabotegravir as potential long-acting injectable HIV prevention technology, as well as new approaches to treat HIV with next generation medicines. She shares how she has led a global R&D operation in the era COVID-19 and what Bla...

Chevron’s General Manager of Enterprise Health, Dr. Huma Abbasi, joins Ben on the podcast to discuss how the multinational corporation, with headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area has responded to the challenges of COVID-19 - rooted in its long heritage of engagement in the global response to AIDS.For more information:https://www.chevron.comhttps://bayareaglobalhealth.orghttp://sfaf.orghttps:/...

Dr. Peter Piot, a microbiologist who has fought infectious diseases all his career, contracted COVID-19 earlier this year. We discuss how this changed his outlook on pandemics preparation, and what the world’s urgent attention on COVID-19 means for another modern virus: HIV, a virus which remains far from being defeated. Peter was a guest on the podcast in season 1 (S01 Ep04) where he and Dr. Heid...

What can Jeff Sturchio teach us from a career of over 25 years at the front of global access to medicines? Has that experience been leading up to this one historic moment as the world grapples with COVID-19? In this week’s episode, Ben talks with Jeff Sturchio, CEO of Rabin Martin, a global health strategy firm, to get his wisdom from everything from the role of the World Health Organization (WHO)...

As South Africa begins tentative steps to reopen in the midst of a growing covid-19 pandemic, Yvette Raphael, South African HIV and women’s rights activist shares her thoughts on how social networks can break down the tedium of lockdown, and help inform and educate young girls on crucial health priorities. This episode was made in partnership with the Bay Area Global Health Alliance and is now ava...

What do you do when urgent COVID-19 testing and isolation is needed for a patient who is homeless? In this third special episode of A Shot In the Arm Podcast, made in partnership with the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, we meet Dr Alisson Sombredero, Chief Medical Officer of the San Francisco Community Health Center. She shares with us the challenges she and her colleagues face every day in testi...

Which countries’ public health responses have worked and which ones have floundered? In this second special episode of A Shot In the Arm Podcast, made in partnership with the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, we meet Michele Barry, Senior Dean for Global Health & the Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University. We're also joined by Mary Pittman, President and CEO o...

COVID-19 is the pandemic the public health community has supposedly been preparing for. How did it get this serious? And where do we go from here? A Shot In The Arm Podcast partners with the Bay Area Global Health Alliance on a special series to break down the latest COVID news and developments. Join me and internationally respected infectious disease expert Jonna Mazet, Professor of Epidemiology...

The current coronavirus (COVID-19) infected 113,000 people worldwide in 3 months, shaken economies and forced countries into lockdown. But rather than just responding to individual diseases, we need to figure out how to stop new epidemics from emerging. Join me in conversation with Peter Daszak, President of the EcoHealth Alliance, as explore what happens when humans, wildlife and the environment...

Ambassador Eric Goosby, MD is one of those rare leaders in medicine, public health and policy, who combines local & national expertise with global reach. He’s currently the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Tuberculosis and Professor at the UCSF School of Medicine.  Join me as he reflects on a career of service, including two presidents, and offers his insights for the next phase of our coll...

In this episode, I meet Ambassador Mark P. Lagon, Chief Policy Officer of Friends of the Global Fight, and explore how to build strategies to strengthen bipartisan alliances for global health, particularly in AIDS, TB and Malaria. Friends of the Global Fighthttps://www.theglobalfight.orgThe Global Fundhttps://www.theglobalfund.org---Facebook: @shotarmpodcast - http://bit.ly/asita_fbvideosYouTube:...

In this episode, we meet Trevor Stratton, co-founder of International Indigenous HIV & AIDS Community (IIHAC) and a globally renowned Indigenous HIV activist to explore the health challenges and priorities for indigenous communities around the world - we focus on biomedical advances in HIV, viral hepatitis and dependency, the urgent need for inclusion in epidemiology research and how the deep rela...

In this week's podcast, Ben sits down with Eliza Nemser, climate strategist, as they explore the health impacts of climate change. As a bonus, Eliza and Ben are joined by physician Hiral Tipirneni, who is a candidate for Arizona’s sixth congressional district. ---Facebook: @shotarmpodcast - http://bit.ly/asita_fbvideosYouTube: @shotarmpodcast - http://bit.ly/asita_youtube A Shot in the Arm Podcast...

In this episode, we explore the intersection of health and poverty in crowded cities, and meet the CEO of the San Francisco Community Health Center, Lance Toma.  What are the implications for health when huge wealth sits, side by side, with great poverty, and what are the most important health research needs to alleviate poverty. ---Facebook: @shotarmpodcast - http://bit.ly/asita_fbvideosYouTube:...