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Listen to the Global Health Impact Project's new podcast series, 'Talk is the Best Medicine.' We speak with researchers and activists from the diverse field of public health who are tackling issues such as medication prices, access to medicines, and the general state of global health.

PAM LOWNEY

April 28th, 2026

PAM LOWNEY

Pam Lowney is CEO of the Fistula Foundation, an organization dedicated to expanding access to surgical care for obstetric fistula, a preventable childbirth injury that continues to affect women across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

ROBERT STEINGLASS

June 6th, 2023

ROBERT STEINGLASS

Retired in 2018 as founding director of the JSI Immunization Center, Robert Steinglass has decades of experience with vaccination efforts in over 50 countries since the 70s

ELIZABETH HARMAN

April 24th, 2023

ELIZABETH HARMAN

Elizabeth Harman is a professor at Princeton University, in the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Human Values. She is also Director of Early-Career Research at the Center for Human Values, providing career development and placement support to their graduate student fellows and postdocs.

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

December 28th, 2022

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

BU students share their experience from their course, 'Ethics, Medicines, & Pandemics', having had the opportunity to work with the Global Health Impact Project and the Center for Civic Engagement to gain a unique experience engaging with various health communities

BRUCE Y. LEE

November 10th, 2022

BRUCE Y. LEE

Dr. Lee is the Director of Operations Research at the International Vaccine Access Center at John Hopkins. Previously, he was Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he founded and directs the Public Health Computational and Operations Research group

SHARONNANN LYNCH AND NGOZI ERONDU

May 28th, 2022

SHARONNANN LYNCH AND NGOZI ERONDU

Sharonann Lynch is a senior scholar at the Global Health Policy and Politics Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Dr. Ngozi Erondu-Manyonganise is an Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, global health security expert and public health thought leader.

ROBERT STEINGLASS

April 6th, 2022

ROBERT STEINGLASS

Retired in 2018 as founding director of the JSI Immunization Center, Robert Steinglass has decades of experience with vaccination efforts in over 50 countries since the 70s

GEORGE J. AGICH

December 7th, 2022

GEORGE J. AGICH

George John Agich is Founding Co-Director, International Conferences on Clinical Ethics & Consultation (ICCEC) and Professor of Philosophy (Emeritus) at Bowling Green State University.

NICOLE HASSOUN

November 28th, 2022

NICOLE HASSOUN

Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University and Founder of the Global Health Impact Project

SANJOY BHATTACHARYA

April 6th, 2022

SANJOY BHATTACHARYA

Sanjoy Bhattacharya is Co-Director of the History Department’s Centre for Global Health Histories and Professor in the History of Medicine

ADRIAN TOWSE

March 28th, 2022

ADRIAN TOWSE

Professor Adrian Towse is Director Emeritus of the Office of Health Economics in the UK.

GOVIND PERSAD

February 3rd, 2022

GOVIND PERSAD

Professor of Health Law at Sturm College of Law, 2018-21 Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics

SAMIA HURST

February 3rd, 2022

SAMIA HURST

Physician Ethicist, Director of the Institute for Ethics, History, and the Humanities at the Geneva University Medical School in Switzerland

AMANDA BANDA

February 3rd, 2022

AMANDA BANDA

Global health advocate in the East and Southern African region and focuses on the programmes Human Resources for Health and Finance for Health at Wemos. Co-chair of the Health Workers For All Coalition

DR. AIDAN HOLLIS

December 1st, 2020

DR. AIDAN HOLLIS

Dr. Aidan Hollis. September 29th, 2020. Professor of Economics at the University of Calgary and President of Incentives for Global Health.

DAN HAUSMAN

September 10th, 2020

DAN HAUSMAN

ELISABETH KINGMA

September 10th, 2020

ELISABETH KINGMA

ZOHAR LEDERMAN

September 10th, 2020

ZOHAR LEDERMAN

DAVID RIDLEY

September 10th, 2020

DAVID RIDLEY

DR. LEIF WENAR

December 1st, 2020

DR. LEIF WENAR

Professor of Philosophy, Law and Political Science. Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment

NICOLE HASSOUN

November 16th, 2021

NICOLE HASSOUN

Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University and Founder of the Global Health Impact Project

GOPAL SREENIVASAN

September 10th, 2020

GOPAL SREENIVASAN

ROBERT STEINGLASS

September 10th, 2020

ROBERT STEINGLASS

Retired in 2018 as founding director of the JSI Immunization Center, Robert Steinglass has decades of experience with vaccination efforts in over 50 countries since the 70s

DR. ANDERS HERLITZ

December 1st, 2020

DR. ANDERS HERLITZ

Researcher at the Institute for Future Studies and Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm Univeristy

DR. JENNIFER MILLER

October 13th, 2020

DR. JENNIFER MILLER

Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Medicine, Director of the Good Pharma Index, and Founder of the nonprofit Bioethics International

JONATHAN WOLFF

September 17th, 2020

JONATHAN WOLFF

Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford

PETER MAYBARDUK

September 15th, 2020

PETER MAYBARDUK

Director of Public Ctizen's Global Access to Medicines Program

NICOLE HASSOUN

September 10th, 2020

NICOLE HASSOUN

Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University and Founder of the Global Health Impact Project

JAMES NICKEL

September 9th, 2021

JAMES NICKEL

Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at University of Miami School of Law

LISA HERZOG

October 19th, 2021

LISA HERZOG

Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics of the University of Groningen

ESTHER CHIRWA

October 26th, 2021

ESTHER CHIRWA

District Medical Officer at the Ministry of Health Malawi

Thank you to the World Health Organization for sponsoring the Talk is the Best Medicine Podcast Series!!