If a globe shows a web of distances, then global health collapses these distances. The distance to there from here; from mystery to discovery; from injury to justice; from last century to next; from city to country; from you to me. Produced by the Center for Global Child Health Research, ONE future is an audio documentary series that pulls the listener into this network, one investigator at a time. From nutrition as a global health intervention to the still developing history of childhood TB ...
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Malaria is one of the earliest diseases recorded in medical literature, first described in the writings of Hippocrates, around six thousand years ago. In this episode of ONE future, Dr. Brandon Wilder discusses a new approach to malaria that, if successful, could achieve game-changing outcomes equal to curing childhood cancer year-after-year. Dr. W…
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In this episode of ONE future, Dr. Diane Stadler draws a straight line from her childhood wanderlust to the grown-up challenges she's faced improving women and children's nutrition in Laos and Zambia. Spoiler alert: She succeeds. Dr. Stadler is a member of the Center for Global Child Health Research—specializing in nutrition and education.…
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How can one farm in Oregon end two epidemics in Africa?
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12:03From Ethiopia to Utrecht to the Ivy League to rural Oregon, Dr. Fikadu Tafesse's journey defines the interconnectedness of global health. In our second episode, Dr. Tafesse retraces his steps, previewing a revolution to come in the treatment and diagnostics of diseases in resource-limited settings: nanobodies. Dr. Tafesse is a member of the Center …
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Where does child health begin? (Hint: Not with the child.)
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13:01"I will tell you a story—a little bit about social determinants of health." And so, with the first episode of ONE future, Dr. Christina Lancioni sets the tone in this story that digs deep into global child health's greatest successes of the past thirty years to find a frontier for even better outcomes in the next thirty. It's a story of humility an…
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