EPIDEMIC with Dr. Celine Gounder
Eradicating Smallpox: The Heroes that Wiped out a 3,000-Year-Old Virus
One of humanity’s greatest triumphs is the eradication of smallpox. This new eight-episode docuseries, “Eradicating Smallpox,” explores this remarkable feat and uncovers striking parallels and contrasts to recent history in the
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Life Sciences
Medicine
S2E8 / The Scars of Smallpox
In 1975, smallpox eradication workers in the capital...
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Nov 7 2023 16m
S2E7 / What Good Is a Vaccine When There Is No Rice?
The 1970s was the deadliest decade in the “entire hi...
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Oct 24 2023 18m
S2E6 / Bodies Remember What Was Done to Them
Global fears of overpopulation in the ’60s and ’70s ...
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Oct 10 2023 20m
Live Web Event: Thinking Big in Public Health, Inspired by the End of Smallpox
At noon ET on Thursday Sept. 14, Epidemic host Célin...
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Sep 12 2023 48 sec
S2E4 / Speedboat Epidemiology
Shahidul Haq Khan, a Bangladeshi health worker, and ...
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Aug 29 2023 21m
Chapter 1 9 mins
Delivering Smallpox Vaccine in South AsiaChapter 2 12 mins
Outreach and Equity in Public Health
S2E3 / Zero Pox!
In 1973, Bhakti Dastane arrived in Bihar, India, to ...
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Aug 15 2023 18m
Chapter 1 8 mins
Smallpox Eradication Efforts in IndiaChapter 2 10 mins
Police Enforcement and Public Health Effects
S2E2 / Do You Know Dutta?
By the mid-1970s, India’s smallpox eradication campa...
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Aug 1 2023 24m
Chapter 1 13 mins
Eradication of Smallpox in South AsiaChapter 2 10 mins
Decolonizing Global Health and COVID-19 ResponseChapter 3 34 sec
Simplecast Powers Epidemic Podcast
S2E1 / The Goddess of Smallpox
Episode 1 of “Eradicating Smallpox” explores the lay...
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Jul 18 2023 22m
Trailer: Epidemic Season 2 — Eradicating Smallpox
"Eradicating Smallpox” is a journey to South Asia, t...
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Jul 6 2023 1m
Chapter 1 1 min
Eradicating Smallpox
Trailer: American Diagnosis Season 4 — Rezilience
In the years leading up to the pandemic, Dr. Celine ...
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Dec 20 2021 3m
S1E80 / Vaccine Joy / Andy Slavitt & Celine Gounder
"It's a really interesting question: how do we get c...
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Jun 24 2021 32m
S1E79 / Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths / Andrea Edlow, Stephanie Gaw, Alice Lu-Culligan, Leena Mith...
"Pregnant women who have SARS-CoV-2 are more likely ...
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Jun 17 2021 23m
S1E78 / Caregiving as Infrastructure / Stephanie Coontz, Julie Morita, Erika Moritsugu, Sarah Murphy
"The pandemic has given us an opportunity to finally...
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Jun 10 2021 24m
S1E77 / Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide? / Albert Fox Cahn, Lawrence Gostin, Fatima Hassa...
"When you're building a system like a vaccine passpo...
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Jun 3 2021 24m
S1E76 / Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity / John Nkengasong, James Krellenstein...
"You can't fight scarcity with scarcity. The only wa...
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May 27 2021 24m
S1E75 / Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents / Chris Morten, Prithi Krishtel, Rohit Malpani
"It's a triumph of science and engineering that we n...
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May 20 2021 26m
S1E74 / Techno-Racism & COVID at Home & Abroad / Mutale Nkonde, Corin Faife, Heidi Larson, Imran Ahmed
"They benefit from traffic no matter if it's good in...
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May 13 2021 23m
S1E73 / Getting on the Right Side of Conservatives and Vaccines / Former Governor Chris Christie & Brian Castrucci
"What we really need to be doing is not belittle peo...
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May 6 2021 22m
S1E72 / A World Wide Web of COVID Conspiracies / Graham Brookie, Devin Burghart, Bret Schafer, Judy Twigg
"Disinformation is a deliberate falsehood put out to...
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Apr 29 2021 21m
S1E71 / Is SARS-CoV-2 Here to Stay? / Jennie Lavine, Angela Rasmussen, Jeffrey Shaman
"I don't think that herd immunity is a possibility f...
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Apr 22 2021 20m
S1E70 / Country In-Roads: Building Vaccine Confidence in Rural America / Elizabeth Ellis, Dana Friend, Anna Loge, C...
"The messaging that we've done in West Virginia is, ...
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Apr 15 2021 22m
S1E69 / With Us, For Us — Black Healthcare Workers Speak Out About Vaccine Safety / Jessica Anne Mitchell Aiwuyor, ...
"This virus does not discriminate. The vaccine is wh...
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Apr 8 2021 23m
S1E68 / Medical Racism Past and Present / Vanessa Northington Gamble, Harriet Washington, Rueben Warren
"We have to have a conversation where we take people...
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Apr 1 2021 24m
S1E67 / Past Is Prologue: Epidemics & Anti-Asian Xenophobia / Toby Chow, Merlin Chowkwanyun, David Randall
"I think a lot of people don't understand how fearfu...
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Mar 25 2021 20m