One World, One Health
Episodes
100 episodes
One Shot, Big Shift – Brazil’s Homegrown Breakthrough Against Dengue
It’s a rare piece of good news. A single-dose dengue vaccine developed in Brazil as part of an international collaboration protected people against at least two strains of the virus for five years or longer, and did so safely. The v...
The Potential Nightmare of Mirror Bacteria
Imagine a life form identical to your own, only backwards.At first, it would look normal. But just like when you try to use a mirror to read text on a page, it doesn’t quite translate. For some reason, all of the DNA of life ...
Beyond the Frontlines – Tackling Drug Resistance in Conflict Zones
Imagine this scene:A family’s house was destroyed when it was bombed during a war. They got out with the clothes on their backs – nothing more. When they were fleeing, the mother was hit with fragments from another bomb. It tore off part...
Saving Lives with Midwives
Having a baby should be safe. Yet it’s far too often a death sentence for both the mother and the baby. An estimated 260,000 women died in 2023 during and right a...
Food as Medicine — For People and the Planet
Fighting climate change can feel like a hopeless battle. Who can take on the giant fossil fuel companies when governments are not even bothering? How can countries act when every day temperatures rise, superstorms flood coastal areas, droughts ...
If Governments Aren't Doing Enough to Fight Climate Change, Who Else Can?
A new report on health and climate change paints the grimmest picture yet about what’s going on – not just that 2024 was the hottest year on record, but evidence that many governments have stopped even pretending to try to do anything about it....
Protect Land Rights, Save Forests, Save Lives, Too
Of course, saving forests is good for the animals that live there and the environment. But saving forests where indigenous people live can have another surprising benefit. It can be good for the health of all of the people who live throughout t...
A Viral Surprise at a Bat Cave
Bats can carry several viruses that can kills humans. Some well understood – rabies, the deadliest virus of all, is
An Unknown Burden – Drug resistance and lab capacity in Africa
Drug-resistant germs are hidden killers in more than one way. Not only are the microbes invisible to the human eye, in many places, they’re invisible because people simply are not looking for them systematically.Doctors often do not know...
The Invisible Second Threat to Cancer Patients – Drug-Resistant Infections
It’s a common scenario for a cancer patient. They’re undergoing treatment and get what’s known as a peripherally inserted central catheter or PICC (pronou...
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...
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...
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
Can Microplastics Spread Killer Bacteria?
Plastic is everywhere. So are drug-resistant microbes.<...
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
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
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
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...
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
“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...
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...
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.
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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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 ...
“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 ...
