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“It’s a lesson from Bangladesh and research in global health that’s helped almost every American family. I learned we can learn a lot from developing countries.”
Public health security requires a global approach. It’s a fact currently underscored by the COVID-19 pandemic, but one that Dr. Roger Glass, Global Health Expert and Director of the Fogarty Center at NIH has known for some time. In this episode, he talks with our hosts, Dr. Rob Breiman and Ken Berta, about the bidirectional benefits of investing in global health, the role the private sector can play, and the mission and achievements of the Fogarty Center.
For more on global health work listen to our podcast with Dr. Rebecca Martin, “Global Investments, Domestic Dividends.”
Takeaways:
02:10 — Lessons for the developed world from the developing world.
06:00 — Fogarty invests in people and global health security.
09:30 — How AIDs prepared us to tackle COVID-19.
12:00 — Private sector’s key role in global health.
18:30 — Scoping a research agenda to tackle climate change.
23:06 — Medicine is only good for you if you take it.
32:15 — A physician’s dream tool.
OFFICE OF HEALTH EQUITY
AND CRISIS COORDINATION
GHC3 is now the Office of Health Equity and Crisis Coordination, a division of the Center for Global Health Innovation (CGHI). The Center for Global Health Innovation is an Atlanta-based 501(c)3 organization launched in 2019 to bring together diverse Global Health, Health Technology and Life Sciences entities to collaborate, innovate and activate solutions to enhance human health outcomes around the world. At its core, CGHI will orchestrate programs that promote cross discipline cooperation to strengthen capabilities, accelerate problem solving and respond to global health crises. The Center will continue to support its subsidiary organizations, Georgia Bio and Georgia Global Health Alliance and is standing up a permanent Global Health Crisis Coordination Center to bringing to bear the best private sector and public sector capabilities and experience in times of need.