Halteres Presents

On this week's episode, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Dr. Alan Rudolph, who has had an active career in translating interdisciplinary life sciences into useful applications for biotechnology development in academia, government laboratories, and the nonprofit and private sectors. Dr. Rudolph spearheads a wide-ranging discussion on innovations in disease surveillance in agriculture,...

On this week's episode, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Mohammed Majam, the Director for Medical Technologies at Ezintsha in Johannesberg, South Africa, whose portfolio encompasses Diagnostics, Implementation, and mHealth innovation projects. Mohammed helps lead a deep-dive discussion on what Ezintsha at Wits University brings to the global health space, how usability trials are cond...

Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are honored to welcome one of their absolute favorite authors David Quammen as their first guest of season 2 of Halteres Presents. David stops by to discuss just how he predicted a global zoonotic viral pandemic in his book "Spillover" all the way back in 2012, the lessons we've learned (or not learned) about pandemic preparedness in the aftermath of COVID-19/SARS-CoV-...

*Special 20th Anniversary Episode!* At Halteres Associates, we are celebrating our 20th Anniversary, and we want to acknowledge and thank our many constituents around the world for their support and allowing us to assist them with their innovations.  When we started Halteres Associates, we had no idea where it would take us, and the last twenty years have been an exciting and fulfilling journey. ...

In the season one finale episode, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Dr. Patty García, the former Minister of Health of Peru, about what diagnostics developers must consider about the who, what, where, when, and how of how tests will be used when creating new diagnostics products, and how accessibility of testing, and of self-testing, are democratizing how patients are able to receive t...

On this episode, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Mike Richey, the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for the National AIDS Memorial, about the barriers that exist which prevent patients from receiving the healthcare they need, be they geographical, economic, or the result of stigma or prejudice, and the efforts that are being made to circumvent those obstacles. He also shares details...

On this episode, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Nancy Gagliano, MD, MBA, to discuss her role as an executive leader of the National Institute of Health (NIH)’s RADx Tech, Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics program. In this unique position, she helped oversee over one billion dollars of sponsored programs to bring millions of new COVID-19 tests to market, and in this exclusive intervi...

On this followup minisode, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are again interviewing Jennifer Leib, founder of Innovation Policy Solutions, to follow up on several key pieces of legislation related to the diagnostics industry, and where that legislation goes from here. This episode was recorded in the spring of 2023 to touch base on how the new session of Congress has (or hasn't) changed the outlook for...

On this episode, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Jennifer Leib, founder of Innovation Policy Solutions, to dissect several key pieces of legislation related to the diagnostics industry. This episode was recorded in the last days of 2022 to capture the hot-off-the-presses developments at the end of the last session of Congress.  Jennifer Leib is a board-certified genetic counselor and...

In this week’s episode, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Dr. Paul Keim, who was recently featured in the noteworthy 2022 Netflix documentary "The Anthrax Attacks", about his essential and pivotal scientific research used in the FBI’s 2001 anthrax letters investigation. While the Netflix series focused on the twists and turns of the nationwide manhunt, here on Halteres Presents Dr. Kei...

In a special 3-part season premiere, Halteres Presents is spotlighting tuberculosis diagnostics worldwide, and where things stand in the field today. In Part Three, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Dr. Shibu Vijayan, the Medical Director for Global Health Practice at Qure.ai, a healthtech company that uses artificial intelligence assistance for medical imaging diagnostics. Dr. Vijayan...

In a special 3-part season premiere, Halteres Presents is spotlighting tuberculosis diagnostics worldwide, and where things stand in the field today. In Part Two, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Dr. Peter Small, the Chief Medical Officer at Hyfe.ai, an acoustic epidemiology company which uses machine learning to build acoustic tools for respiratory diagnostics and monitoring. For mor...

In a special 3-part season premiere, Halteres Presents is spotlighting tuberculosis diagnostics worldwide, and where things stand in the field today. In Part One, Rich Thayer and Mickey Urdea are interviewing Dr. Morten Ruhwald, who leads the TB Programme at FIND in Geneva, Switzerland. He trained as a medical doctor at Copenhagen University Hospitals, Denmark and obtained his PhD in TB Immunology...