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A Shot in the Arm Podcast

Welcome to A Shot In The Arm Podcast, where we take a deep dive into the heart of global health. Since our launch in 2019, we"ve released over 150 episodes that illuminate the intersection of innovation and equity in healthcare. Join me, your host Ben Plumley—a global infectious disease strategist and passionate HIV advocate, along with our expert team of co-hosts, as we engage in compelling, character-driven conversations with a diverse array of guests from around the world. Together, we explore

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41:10

Down South with MTV Staying Alive

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2022/12/30

Recorded in MTV Studios in South Africa at the end of November, we look back at an insanely busy year for the MTV Staying Alive Foundation in creating content to help young people to make their own decisions about their health in Africa and South Asia, and reflect on big news for its future in 2023. Ben and Yvette chat with other members of the South African Board as well as podcast regular Georgia Arnold. Guests Stephanie Ndlovu, Co-Chair, MTV Staying Alive Foundation Monde Twala, General

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34:49

Festive Bonus Episode: But Our Emails!

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2022/12/30

In between mince pies and braais, Yvette and Ben answer your emails and messages - contentious and occasionally comic from all over the world of global health innovation and equity. Don’t forget to keep your questions and coming - find us on all your favorite podcast platforms and social media sites! Yvette’s and Ben’s Bucket Hats are handmade in South Africa by Pozie at https://latobyveresources-pozie.business.site

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31:38

2022 World AIDS Day from Tembisa, South Africa

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2022/12/04

Yvette Raphael welcomes co-host Ben Plumley to Tembisa, South Africa, for a World AIDS Day special, to reflect on the sometimes bumpy response from the country with the largest number of people living with HIV. And catch Yvette’s interview with Lolo Saliso, HIV & human rights activist from Advocates for the Prevention of HIV in Africa on how it is young people’s time to lead, building on the legacy of older “dinosaur” activists like Yvette and

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Sharing the Mic Ep05 - Pandemics Preparation For Whom?

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2022/11/15

We are sharing the mic with Frontline AIDS again, to reflect on the recent Berlin World Health Summit, the G20 Summit in Indonesia, and ongoing negotiations towards a World Bank Pandemics Fund through the lenses of grass-roots communities on the frontline, and to ask, these pandemics preparation and response initiatives - who are they for? Joining Ben Plumley are Lois Chingandu, Director of Evidence and Influence Frontline AIDS Christian Acosta, Coordinator of the HIV-FM Project for Frontline AIDS

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62:08

Current & Future Pandemics - How Resilient are we?

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2022/11/12

Ben is joined by two giants of global health diplomacy, Ambassadors Mark Dybul and Eric Goosby, to take stock of how resilient the world is in sustaining existing infectious disease responses and preparing for future pandemic threats, by building on existing infrastructure - particularly optimized lab-based diagnostic networks. A Shot In the Arm Podcast is a member of the Health Podcast Network, and is a project of the Global Health Reporting Center. This episode is brought to you with the kind

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57:56

Diagnostics: The Gateway for Managing Pandemics

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2022/11/07

Ben catches up with infectious disease physicians Tamar Tchelidze and Ben La Brot, on how networks of lab-based and point of care tests can drive better diagnosing and management of infectious disease - and can PrEP and HIV treatment be the poster-child to prove this to skeptical policy makers? Sponsored by Roche Diagnostics. Guests Dr. Tamar Tchelidze, Disease Partner, Medical & Scientific Affairs, Roche Diagnostics Dr. Benjamin LaBrot, Medical Affairs Leader, Infectious Disease, Medical &

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53:05

PBS NOVA: Ending HIV in America

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2022/10/06

PBS NOVA “Ending HIV in America” has just premiered on PBS on the 5th of October, 2022, telling the story of an incredible scientific achievement and the public health work that still needs to be done to end HIV in America. In this episode, we meet the documentary’s director, Shayon Maitra, and two participants, friend of the podcast Professor Monica Gandhi from San Francisco, and the incredible Birmingham Alabama community health worker Tommy Williams, to explore how hard-hit affected communities

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53:42

Sharing the Mic Ep04 - Financing the Global Fund to...

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2022/09/20

World leaders meet in New York this week, to commit - hopefully - $18 billion over the next three years to the Global Fund in its fight to end AIDS, TB and Malaria - as well as COVID-19, and in this episode, we are again sharing the mic with Frontline AIDS to explore how communities themselves lead country programs funded by the Global Fund, as well as the critical advocacy role they are playing right now to keep the world’s attention focused on the three diseases. Joining Ben are: Kanna

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53:43

Doomsday Watch Meets Global Health (with guest Arthur...

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2022/09/08

Ben meets Arthur Snell, former UK diplomat, host of the Doomsday Watch Podcast, and author of the Amazon UK bestseller “How Britain Broke The World” to explore how the greatest challenges facing the international community are radically changing global health priorities. Arthur reflects on the wide-ranging impacts of Russia’s ill-fated invasion of Ukraine, NATO’s retreat from Afghanistan, and what to expect from the new British Prime Minister Liz Truss - particularly whether the UK will follow the

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50:46

Global Health Security - Part 2

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2022/08/02

Just prior to AIDS 2022, Ben sat down with Steve Morrison, one of the world’s leading thinkers on how health fits into new trends in global security. He shares his views on the impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine, COVID-19 and other current and future infectious outreaks on nations’ security. Guest: J. Stephen Morrison, Senior Pice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Director of its Global Health Policy

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73:17

HIV and COVID-19: A Private Sector Example of...

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2022/07/31

COVID-19 has upended society, from vaccine inequity, to healthcare and to the way we work. In this #aids2022 podcast, we look at how one San Francisco Bay Area-based multinational - Chevron - has responded to COVID-19, by building on its heritage of partnerships forged over 30 years of the AIDS response. Joining Ben, are friends of the podcast: Dr. Huma Abbasi, Chief Medical Officer, Chevron Dr. Chinwe Okala, Lead Physician Chevron Nigeria Ambassador Eric Goosby, UCSF and UN Special Envoy on

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56:48

Managing Pandemics: Pathways to Better Diagnostics in...

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2022/07/28

It’s obvious really, that you can’t treat your way out of a pandemic without the right diagnostics to tell you who is infected, and with which variant of virus or bacterium - and in this episode Ben chats with two leading experts on how laboratory and point of care diagnostics form the essential backbone to any effective infectious disease public health program. Sponsored by Roche Molecular. Ben is joined by Dr. Tamar Tchelidze, and Dr. Ben La Brot, physicians from Roche Molecular Systems Inc, both

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60:34

Sharing the Mic Ep03 - AIDS 2022: New Report on Human...

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2022/07/28

In this episode we provide our listeners and viewers with an overview of the key Frontline AIDS activities at the upcoming AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal – particularly the launch of the Report “Protectors or Perpetrators?” – highlighting how unlawful policing practices are affecting the communities most affected by AIDS – and showcasing the leadership of those same communities in documenting and responding to human rights violations. The panelists for this episode are − Host, Ben Plumley −

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66:49

Reversing Roe vs Wade: Global Health Ramifications

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2022/06/25

The reversal of Roe vs Wade has sent shockwaves around the world. In this second “Sharing the Mic” with Frontline AIDS, we explore the impacts on global health - sexual and reproductive health services, the response to HIV, and, above all, the rights, hopes and futures of girls and women. Joining Ben Plumley, are panelists Yumnah Hattas, Senior Adviser, Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health & Rights, Frontline AIDS Patriciah Jeckonia, Senior Technical Adviser, LVCT Health, Kenya Crystal Lander,

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59:52

Where is the Health in Global Security? A...

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2022/06/03

International efforts are concentrated on securing funding to tackle one of the greatest challenges facing global security today - the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria. Of course all eyes are turned towards Ukraine and mitigating the impact of Russia’s invasion, but COVID and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have transformed our understanding of global security, with health – particularly pandemic responses – now a central challenge the World faces. Gayle Smith, CEO of ONE, joins Ben to explore new

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91:31

Ukraine - The Frontlines of War & a Public Health Crisis

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2022/05/11

In the first of a short series of special podcasts, we “Share The Mic” with Frontline AIDS to highlight the critical role communities themselves have to play in defeating AIDS and other pandemics. We head to Ukraine, and learn more about how Frontline AIDS’ national partner, the Alliance for Public Health is delivering HIV medications and health services, despite desperately difficult circumstances, to people in need. And we dig deep into how global funding for the global response to AIDS is being

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67:56

Medicine & Humanity: A Profile of Dr. Julie Gerberding

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2022/03/31

In this episode we meet internationally renowned infectious disease specialist, Dr. Julie Gerberding, and profile her life from young HIV doc in San Francisco, to the head of the CDC, and onto the pharmaceutical company Merck, where she most recently Chief Patient Officer. Another new chapter of her life begins as she was recently announced as the new CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health. This episode was made in partnership with the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, a network

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49:23

California Healin’ - with California Health Care...

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2022/03/14

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. Hernández, MD, President and CEO of the California Health Care Foundation to explore innovations in healthcare delivery to expand access for all, particularly low income and marginalized communities - a model for the rest of the country? A Shot In The Arm Podcast is a member of the Health Podcast Network

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Jonna Mazet tackles big, wicked problems armed with...

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2021/12/21

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 California, Davis — a program aimed at responding to the world’s biggest problems. She joins Ben to discuss the need for a multidisciplinary approach to building trust in science, as well as the biggest lessons scientists have learned from the two-year battle against COVID-19.This episode was made in partnership

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28:38

Hazell Dean’s Hi-NRG Hits Turn Activism into Love

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2021/12/08

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 personal advocacy for people living with HIV/AIDS and the transgender community. In our special World AIDS Day episode, Hazell speaks with host Ben Plumley about her career, the re-release of her greatest hits, and her love for the queer community.This episode was made in partnership with the Bay Area Global

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