Podcasts by A Shot in the Arm Podcast

California Healin’ - with California Health Care Foundation’s Sandra R. Hernández, MD from 2022-03-14T08:23:54

In California, the public sector accounts for 75% of the state’s healthcare funding - with a wide diversity of needs, priories, cultures and access to healthcare. In this episode, we meet Sandra R....

Jonna Mazet tackles big, wicked problems armed with lessons from COVID-19 from 2021-12-20T19:00

Internationally respected epidemiologist Jonna Mazet returns to A Shot in the Arm Podcast after being recently appointed Vice Provost of the Grand Challenges initiative at University of Californ...

Hazell Dean’s Hi-NRG Hits Turn Activism into Love from 2021-12-08T01:00

Hazell Dean rose to Hi-NRG fame across the UK at the dawn of the global HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s, embraced by loyal LGBTQ fans as a dance-pop queen whose hits fueled nightclub beats and her ...

Martina Clark: UNAIDS’ First Openly HIV+ Staffer Publishes New Memoir from 2021-12-01T02:00

Former UNAIDS staffer Martina Clark chats with Ben about her new memoir, My Unexpected Life: An International Memoir of Two Pandemics, HIV and COVID-19. The first openly HIV-positive pe...

Peter Staley: Acting Up Against AIDS and COVID-19 from 2021-11-05T13:00

Legendary activist Peter Staley joins us for a conversation on lessons learned from the fight against AIDS that have informed today’s global battle with COVID-19. We also discuss the evolution o...

Policy Briefing with Global Health Council's President and CEO Elisha Dunn-Georgiou from 2021-10-26T19:00

In this recording of a live policy briefing, Ben chats with Elisha Dunn-Georgiou, the new President and CEO of Global Health Council, who shares policy and funding updates on Capitol Hill. It is...

Building COVID-19 Confidence Through Social Media Campaigns (S04 Ep24) from 2021-09-23T23:00

To coincide with the 20210 UN General Assembly, PSI pulled together a panel to explore how social media campaigns, often a key approach to building COVID-19 vaccine confidence among connected co...

Discussing the Next Wave of Nonprofit Leadership with Jeanne Bell (S04 Ep23) from 2021-08-31T01:00

Ben catches up with Jeanne Bell, Nonprofit leader and consultant, on the challenges facing nonprofit organizations in the 2020s, from attracting funding from the new generation of philanthropies...

Accelerating Cross-sector Pandemics Innovation During Covid (S04 Ep22) from 2021-07-30T01:00

This is a recording of a networking session organized by the American Society for Microbiology at the World Microbe Forum in June 2021. Ben met Professor Jonna Mazet, UC Davis,  Professor Simon ...

Living Out Loud with Global Human Rights Advocate, Micheal Ighodaro (S04 E21) from 2021-07-13T11:00

Ben is joined by Micheal Ighodaro, a Nigerian-born human rights activist, who is profiled in the new HBO documentary, "The Legend of the Underground," a film about the struggle against...

Leveraging Technology to Scale Outcomes in Global Health (S04 Ep20) from 2021-07-11T14:00

This is a recording of webinar discussion, facilitated by Ben, about the importance of digital infrastructure, the role of collaboration to strengthen these systems and empower digital innovatio...

Taking a Look at PEPFAR with Journalist-Activist, Emily Bass (S04 E19) from 2021-07-08T00:00

Ben chats with Emily Bass, journalist, AIDS activist and author of To End A Plague -  a new review of PEPFAR - President George W Bush's multibillion investment in life-saving HIV treatment...

Adapting Private Sector Strategies for Global Health (S04 E18) from 2021-07-06T22:00

In this recently recorded live web event, we explore what private strategies ideas can be adopted by the global health community to develop, distribute, and market products for those most in nee...

India’s Continuing COVID Crisis (S04 Ep17) from 2021-06-26T18:00

This is a zoom recording of a lovely and fascinating conversation between two global health leaders, Purnima Mane and Geeta Rao Gupta, as they reflect on how India’s cultural and structural barr...

Design & the Art of Public Health (S04 Ep16) from 2021-05-30T17:00

Ben chats with Nancye Green, co-founder of Donovan/Green and pioneer of the use of design to improve public health communications & engagement with communities. They discuss the CDC’s latest...

India’s COVID LGBTQI Crisis (S04 Ep15) from 2021-05-21T17:00

This special episode is a recording of a webinar organized by international and India-based organizations, with San Francisco Bay Area groups to find out how the pandemic is impacting India’s LG...

Workplace Wellbeing in the Age of COVID (S04 Ep14) from 2021-05-08T14:00

Ben catches up with leading physician, Dr. Huma Abbasi, General Manager Global Health and Medical and Chief Medical Officer at Chevron, to explore how the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic has...

Global Health Innovation Financing with Krista Donaldson, CEO of Equalize Health (S04 Ep13) from 2021-04-24T13:00

Ben meets Krista Donaldson, CEO of Equalize Health to make sense of the evolving global health innovation financing landscape, and how young social entrepreneurs can attract investment - a speci...

EXTREME HUMANISM: A Conversation About Engagement & Human Connection with Management Guru Tom Peters (S04 Ep12) from 2021-04-09T17:00

Ben catches up with Tom Peters, internationally respected business management leader and author, who has turned his attention to the impact of COVID-19 and the urgent need for extreme humanism -...

The WHO Wuhan COVID-19 Report: Discussing its findings with Dr. Peter Daszak (S04 Ep11) from 2021-03-30T07:00

Earlier this year, the World Health Organization sent an international team of experts to Wuhan, China to try to establish the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Their findin...

A Show of Hope with the San Francisco Community Health Center (S04 Ep10) from 2021-03-14T11:00

In this short clip, Ben chats with Lance Toma about San Francisco Community Health Center's televised fundraising event to raise funds for and awareness of the Center's comprehensive p...

The Pandemics of Discrimination & Stigma (S04 Ep09) from 2021-03-13T03:00

In this week's episode, Ben talks with Mark S. King, blogger, author, speaker, and HIV/AIDS activist, about discrimination and stigma that accompany global viral pandemics, and the messy as...

The Future of Rapid Test Results with Healthvana’s Ramin Bastani (S04 Ep08) from 2021-03-04T18:00

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 result...

Communicating One Health with Professors Jonna Mazet and John Parrish-Sprowl (S04 Ep07) from 2021-02-26T06:00

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 communicati...

Expanding Health Equity with Google Maps (S04 Ep05) from 2021-02-12T01:00

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 ...

Why are Girls and Women More Impacted by COVID-19? (S04 Ep04) from 2021-01-25T00:00

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 vir...

Honoring World AIDS Day During COVID (S04 Ep03) from 2020-11-30T20:00

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 hav...

Dr. Anthony Fauci Talks Truth to COVID (S04 Ep01) from 2020-10-14T12:00

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...

How Facebook Fights Pandemic Misinformation (S03 Ep12) from 2020-09-08T11:00

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 ...

Living with Long COVID (S03 Ep11) from 2020-09-02T17:00

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...

Rep. Barbara Lee: Fighting for Health Equity in the Time of Pandemics (S03 Ep10) from 2020-08-05T16:00

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 a...

Lessons for COVID-19 from Debunking Vaccine Denialism (S03 Ep09) from 2020-08-05T03:00

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 den...

The Energy Industry’s Pandemics Preparation & Responses (S03 Ep07) from 2020-07-08T12:00

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 respon...

COVID-19 & HIV: A Conversation with Peter Piot (S03 Ep06) from 2020-07-04T02:00

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 w...

Conversations in Global Health: Jeff Sturchio (S03 Ep05) from 2020-06-29T20:00

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 w...

COVID-19: COVID shutdown in South Africa (S03 Ep04) from 2020-06-14T12:00

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 netw...

COVID-19: Testing and Protection on the Frontline (S03 Ep03) from 2020-05-02T23:00

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 Ar...

COVID-19: Public Health on the Line (S03 Ep02) from 2020-04-14T10:00

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...

COVID-19: Public Health on the Line (S03 Ep02) from 2020-04-14T03:00

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 Hea...

COVID-19: Public Health on the Line (S03 Ep02) from 2020-04-14T03:00

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 Hea...

COVID-19: When Humans, Wildlife & Climate Collide (S02 Ep09) from 2020-03-11T12:00

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 ...

Indigenous Approaches to Health (S02 Ep06) from 2020-01-05T11:00

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...

A Conversation About Climate Health (S02 Ep05) from 2019-12-23T12:00

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,...

A Conversation About Climate Health (S02 Ep05) from 2019-12-23T04:00

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 Listen

A Conversation About Climate Health (S02 Ep05) from 2019-12-23T04:00

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 Listen

Episode 19 - The Intersection of Human Rights and Urban Care from 2019-12-14T09:00

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 he...

Episode 18 - Harm Reduction: Facing Off the Medical and Legal Establishments from 2019-12-08T01:00

In this new episode, we explore with internationally respected lawyer and human rights advocate, Kathleen Fisher, how lawyers and activists came together to force the city of San Francisco and s...

Episode 17 - Pandemic Preparation with Chan Zuckerberg Biohub’s Cristina Tato from 2019-11-30T13:00

In this new episode, launched on World AIDS Day 2019, we meet Cristina Tato, Associate Director of the CZ Biohub Infectious Disease Rapid Response Team, and explore the lessons learned from the ...

Episode 16 - The Human Cost of Pharma Progress? (Live Stream) from 2019-09-01T16:00

What the threat of deportation of a young California woman receiving life saving treatment developed in the US for a rare genetic condition, and the approval of a new drug to treat highly resist...

Episode 15 - World Health Organization & PZAT at #IAS2019 Mexico City from 2019-07-24T18:00

In this episode, we chat with Dr Andrew Ball, Director of the World Health Organization’s Department of HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STIs, and celebrated implement science researcher, Definite Nhamo...

Episode 14 - Pep in your Step! Community Education Group at #IAS2019 Mexico City from 2019-07-23T14:00

In this episode, Yvette and Ben reflect on the latest news out of IAS 2019, with A. Toni Young, Executive Director of Community Education Group. It’s a wild and moving ride, as we talk memory bo...

Episode 13 - Interview with Gilead's Gregg Alton at #IAS2019 Mexico City from 2019-07-23T13:00

In this special episode at IAS 2019, we chat with Gregg Alton, Gilead’s Chief Patient Officer, on his twenty year career as a leader of the global access to medicines movement. Whether you love ...

Episode 12 - LAC Platform & Taiwan's HIV Education Research at #IAS2019 Mexico City from 2019-07-22T09:00

A Shot In the Arm is in Mexico for five special podcasts in association with the International AIDS Society at its IAS2019 clinical science conference. We share the key news coming off the confe...

Episode 11 - MPACT, A Point of Pride (Live Event) from 2019-06-28T15:00

Recorded live on June 26th, 2019 at the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center.

A Shot In the Arm Podcast was invited to co-host a short recept...

Episode 10 - Mabuhay! A Conversation with Congressman TJ Cox from 2019-06-24T17:00

In this episode we meet Democrat Congressman TJ Cox.  TJ was part of the Democrat wave that retook the House of Representatives in 2018. He is progressive and passionate about healthcare for all...

Episode 9 - The Disparate Worlds of the Possible and Struggle from 2019-06-16T01:00

In our latest episode, the clash of two worlds; the possible and the struggle. We are confronted with the insane disparity between a world ripe with potential with the swipe of a smart phone,  a...

Episode 8 - The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of Pangaea from 2019-06-08T15:00

A new episode of A Shot In The Arm is out!

This week it is just me.  I tell the story of Pangaea Global AIDS, a global non profit think tan...

Episode 7 - Staying Alive! from 2019-06-02T13:00

A new episode of A Shot In The Arm Podcast is out!

I chat with Georgia Arnold, one of the world’s leading experts on communi...

Episode 6 - Of Microbes and Meat from 2019-05-22T14:00

A new episode of A Shot In The Arm is out! This week, host Ben Plumley and treatment literacy advocate, David Evans, look at the state of antibiotic research, and why the world desperately needs...

Episode 5 - The Greatest Experiment In Social Services from 2019-05-08T21:00

This week David Evans, internationally respected treatment and science literacy expert, joins us from Pasadena, CA as we explore how healthcare might be delivered in the USA. We look at some pro...

Episode 4 - Ebola, Measles, HIV: Lessons for Future Epidemics from 2019-04-29T23:00

The world is already fighting epidemics - what can we learn from our responses to Ebola and HIV to prepare and anticipate future epidemics? In this special live recording at San Francisco’s Comm...

Episode 3 - Women Are The Cure from 2019-04-21T18:00

We meet Yvette Raphael, the internationally acclaimed South African HIV, Women’s Rights and science activist. She tells her own story of ...

Episode 2 - All About the Money from 2019-04-14T01:00

In the latest episode of A Shot In The Arm Podcast, we explore how much money is needed to end global infectious disease, and talk with the Head of Friends of the Global Fight, Chris Collins abo...

Episode 1 - 21st Century Prevention from 2019-04-04T09:00

In the first episode, “21st Century Prevention,” host Ben Plumley explores the future of HIV prevention with guest, Gloria Lockett, co-founder of California’s Prostitute Education Project (CALPEP)....

Episode 1 - 21st Century Prevention from 2019-04-04T02:00

In the first episode, “21st Century Prevention,” host Ben Plumley explores the future of HIV prevention with guest, Gloria Lockett, co-founder of California’s Prostitute Education Project (CALPE...