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
81 episodes
“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Episode 68
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15:08
Never Again: Making Sure Patients Get the Air They Need
The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was especially bad in India. Patients filled hospitals as the Delta variant swept the country in April of 2021. A...
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Episode 66
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16:33
Vaccines for Adults Pay Off in Both Lives and Money
Vaccines save lives. There’s no doubt about this: childhood vaccination saves four million lives every year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says...
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Episode 65
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What's Surprising and Scary About Avian Influenza Right Now?
Bird flu – aka avian influenza – is doing what it does best yet again – surprising scientists, public health officials, farmers, and wildlife experts. It’s been
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Episode 64
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14:45
A Noah’s Ark for Coral Reefs
Coral reefs are literally the foundation for much of the life on Earth....
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Episode 63
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15:19
A Problem of Access and Excess – Antibiotic Resistance
From the moment people discovered how to use penicillin, the first antibiotic, resistance has been a problem. Bacteria may be small, but they are not simple organisms and they have been fighting for survival for billions of years. Many bacteria...
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Episode 62
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15:21
Dengue in Brazil – Putting the heat on vaccine development and mosquito control
It’s hotter and wetter than usual in Brazil, and climate conditions are driving an early blast of a killer virus – dengue. The mosquito-borne virus is
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Episode 61
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When good bacteria are killed, C. difficile strikes
Peggy Lillis wasn’t expecting trouble when her dentist prescribed antibiotics after she had a root canal in 2010. It was a standard, just-in-case treatment to p...
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Episode 60
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14:50
Why Aren’t People Clamoring for a Vaccine that Prevents Cancer?
There’s a virus that infects just about every adult. It’s passed by skin-to-skin contact – most often during sexual intercourse. It’s the human papillomavirus (HPV for short). It o...
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Episode 59
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15:45
Caught in a Cycle of Panic – “A fragile state of preparedness”
The world acted as if the COVID-19 pandemic was a big surprise. However, just months before, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) had warned that the world was vulnerable to a pandemic of respirato...
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Episode 58
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The Smallest Victims of Drug Resistance
Drug-resistant infections are a problem for everyone, but especially for newborns. They don’t have fully developed immune systems, and their bodies are less equipped to fight infections.The risk is highest for infants born sick or premat...
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Episode 57
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