One World, One Health
One World, One Health is brought to you by the One Health Trust. In this podcast, we bring you the latest ideas to improve the health of our planet and its people. Our world faces many urgent challenges from pandemics and decreasing biodiversity to pollution and melting polar ice caps, among others. This podcast highlights solutions to these problems from the scientists and experts working to make a difference.
Episodes
90 episodes
When Fear Spreads Faster Than Facts – Autism, Vaccines, and Measles
It’s a really bad year for measles. Cases are spiking in countries where children should have been fully vaccinated, su...
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Season 1
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Episode 89
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15:06
Cut Deep – What's at stake in the gutting of U.S. biodefense?
Zombie movies may score at the box office and shows about dangerous contagions including “The Last of Us” may be a hit on streaming services, but preparedness for disasters is no winner for American politicians. Every recent U.S. pr...
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Season 1
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Episode 88
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18:39
From Seals to People – What H5N1 in Patagonia Foretells
The scene on the beach was horrific. Thousands of mothers and baby elephant seals lay in the sand, taken out by a deadly virus.Dr. Marcela Uhart and her colleagues were shocked by
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Season 1
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Episode 87
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21:05
Can Microplastics Spread Killer Bacteria?
Plastic is everywhere. So are drug-resistant microbes.<...
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Season 1
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Episode 86
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15:36
Cuts, Tariffs, and Tightening Borders – Trump's United States and Global Health
It’s been a dire year for global health. Almost as soon as he took office as president of the United States, Donald Trump said he would
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Season 1
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Episode 85
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18:25
Clearing the Air – Can Pollution Affect Kid's Grades?
Air pollution is a big killer. Air pollution of all kinds helped kill 4.2 million people globally in 2019, according to the World Health Organization.It can
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Season 1
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Episode 84
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15:42
From Young Adult Romance to the World's Deadliest Infectious Disease – Writer John Green takes on TB
It’s hard to overstate how popular writer John Green is. His most famous book, The Fault in Our Stars – a novel about teenagers with cancer, young love, and fate – has sold tens of millions of copies. The film based on the book
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Season 1
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Episode 83
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15:20
Fighting the Rise of Anti-Science
People have always doubted science. In the 17th century, Galileo was sentenced to house arrest by the Catholic Church for reporting his observations that the sun is at the center of th...
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Season 1
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Episode 82
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20:47
Spotty Coverage – Filling trust gaps in measles vaccination
Measles is an extremely infectious virus that can both kill and cripple children. Luckily, there are highly effective vaccines to prevent the disease. The
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Season 1
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Episode 81
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16:22
“It’s Mind Blowing” – Governments support fossil fuels in face of climate destruction
Governments and corporations are “undermining our future” by supporting fossil fuels in the face of overwhelming evidence that using coal, oil, and gas is killing people, a startling new report finds.The report, from the Lancet Countdown...
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Season 1
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Episode 80
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17:02
Fighting Killer Bugs in Babies
Children under five years old are fragile. They’re more vulnerable than adults to malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea, and other infections. A growing number of these infections that sicken and kill children are resistant to the drugs developed to tre...
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Season 1
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Episode 79
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17:19
Mpox – An evolving One Health problem
Smallpox may be gone but it’s got a cousin called mpox, and that virus is now spreading fast across parts of Africa.
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Season 1
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Episode 78
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15:13
Clearing forests makes room for farms – and disease outbreaks
Farmers need land to grow their crops, and in many parts of the world, that means clearing forests. That’s especially true in the Amazon region in South America. Crops just won’t grow under the thick forest canopy, so a new banana plantation me...
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Season 1
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Episode 77
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A Life Cut Short When Antibiotics Stopped Working
Most people don’t even think twice when they get an infection. Much of the time, the best treatment is simple: fluids and rest. Bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics – a quick course of pills, maybe a week or 10 days, and you’re ...
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Season 1
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Episode 76
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15:06
“My life is never going to be normal again.” – The toll of antibiotic resistance
Rosemary Bartel had no idea her life was going to take a turn when she went to a hospital near her home in Chilton, Wisconsin in the United States for standard knee replacement surgery – her second such operation. She was ready to work hard to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 75
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14:24
When Superbugs Get Personal – From professional preoccupation to a family's nightmare
Dr. Nour Shamas knows about antimicrobial resistance. As a clinical pharmacist, she was trained in how to dispense drugs to treat infections, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 74
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16:02
Innovation to Save Antibiotics – Prize-Winning Diagnostics for UTIs
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common, uncomfortable, and embarrassing. They can also be deadly. These infections of the...
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Season 1
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Episode 73
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11:48
Hazardous Air in the Neighborhood– Local Pollution and Asthma
No one wants to be exposed to air pollution. No one wants to raise their kids breathing in polluted air in their own neighborhoods.But in Austin, Texas, people of color are disproportionately forced to do both.Dr. Sarah Chambliss,...
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Season 1
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Episode 72
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15:57
The Next Pandemic
People don’t want to see any more pandemics, notes Nita Madhav, Senior Director of Epidemiology & Modeling at Ginkgo Biosecurity, the biosecurity and p...
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Season 1
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Episode 71
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17:46
Wanted: A New Approach to Funding Treatments for Drug-Defying Germs
Drug-resistant bacteria are major killers, playing a role in killing five million people a year. Antibiotics were miracle drugs when they were invented 100 years ago, but they are losing their power against always adapting and evolving bacteria...
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Season 1
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Episode 70
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14:08
What if Drug-Resistant Infections Never Happened in the First Place?
An estimated 7.7 million people die from bacterial infections a year around the world. A growing number of these deaths are caused by bacteria that have developed antibiotic resistance – the ability to thrive in the face of antibiotics. This ab...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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16:22
Targeting Drug Resistance – Achievable Goals to Keep Antibiotics Working
The problem of antimicrobial resistance – AMR for short – is clear. More and more of these germs resistant to existing treatments are emerging everywhere, and there’s little disagreement that governments, nonprofits, doctors, patients, and poli...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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