Best Andrew Friedrichs Podcasts (2025)

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Dr. Jennifer Kates, KFF: “Congress is fed up with blank check forever.” 33:39

1d ago33:39

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Dr. Jennifer Kates, SVP and Director, Global Health and HIV Policy Program, KFF, provides a tour d’horizon of how global health and health security look at day #98 of the Trump revolution. “The DOGE factor was not on my bingo card,” as it became the battering ram decimating institutions, programs, budgets and staff, far beyond what was environed in…

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Measles Outbreaks in 2025 with Dr. Adam Ratner and Dr. Ephrem T. Lemango | The CommonHealth Live! 53:00

1d ago53:00

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In the twelfth episode of The CommonHealth Live! which falls during World Immunization Week, Katherine E. Bliss talks with Dr. Adam Ratner, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases and author of Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health, and Dr. Ephrem T. Lemang…

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CommonHealth Live! with Republic of Indonesia Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin 45:07

2d ago45:07

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In the eleventh episode of The CommonHealth Live! Katherine E. Bliss talks with the Republic of Indonesia’s Minister of Health, H.E. Budi Gunadi Sadikin, about Indonesia’s experience expanding routine immunization coverage and prioritizing attention to non-communicable diseases, as well as how public-private sector collaboration can help ensure sus…

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Premium Edition Teaser: 51st State of Mind, You Bloody Bastard, Wanging On 13:56

2d ago13:56

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Three months ago, Pierre Poilievre was going to take 50 per cent of the total vote, a historic generational landslide. Now, he’s a pub trivia question. What happened in Canada? Did it warp beneath the enormous trade gravity of the Trump Presidency? And why did Canadians think that turning to a milquetoast former central banker would turn off the US…

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki, former Assistant to the President and White House Global Health Security Coordinator: “We are wandering in the desert.” 51:45

9d ago51:45

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki—a newly minted CSIS Senior Adviser—shares the story of her personal evolution as a scholar, NGO policy data expert, senior political appointee at the HHS Office of Global Affairs and the White House National Security Council, and now faculty at Brown University School of Public Health. She reflects on the lessons, good and bad, …

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Moon Age Daydream, Iran So Far Away, The Empire Strikes Back 56:23

10d ago56:23

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Gold is going to the moooooooon. Fantastic news for gold bugs. Until someone works out that this is a short against America, and the Wall Street types celebrating are effectively blowing the kazoo for the end of their own industry. After all, if gold remains on the moon, they’ll have to figure out whether they still need financial services consulta…

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Maj. Gen. Paul Friedrichs (ret.): “I cannot recall anything similar to this.” 45:15

16d ago45:15

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Major General Paul Friedrichs (ret.), the inaugural director of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR), is now a Senior Adviser at CSIS. In this conversation, Paul reviews the multiple changes in health security now unfolding in the first 100 days of the second Trump term. In biodefense, there is a wide-ranging d…

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Special Edition: Bretton Woods 3 1:07:24

17d ago1:07:24

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This week, in a special experiment, we've gone live on Twitter Spaces. As Trump's tariffs bite, and the current account deficit zooms to the front of modern political economy, we're revisiting the idea of a new Bancor, a complete resetting of the global monetary system.By Multipolarity

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Dr. Tom Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives: “We are now flying blind.” 28:34

23d ago28:34

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Dr. Tom Frieden, Resolve to Save Lives (CDC Director 2009-2017,) details the dangerous implications of deep changes underway at CDC—on tobacco, environmental toxins, and communications. It is no less dangerous that CDC should only focus on infectious diseases and not be focused on global threats. What explains CDC’s exceptional vulnerability to att…

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Special Edition: Tariffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 57:22

24d ago57:22

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This week we scrubbed the decks and sounded the five bell alarm. Donald Trump had only gone and done it. Tariffs. Thousands of them. What could the greatest regression from the norms of globalisation since 1945 mean for a show called Multipolarity? Even better: what would it mean for the world? With the MAGA base both boisterous and uneasy in the f…

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Tom Bollyky, CFR: China will not fill the gap “as the dominant actor in global health security exits the stage.” 37:52

30d ago37:52

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Tom Bollyky, CFR, walks us through his recent incisive work on two fronts. First, will China supplant US leadership in global health in the wake of the U.S. retreat? Listen to learn why the answer is a definitive "No!" and the dangers that foretells. Second, what might the U.S. exit mean for Latin America?…

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Special Edition: The Coming Bear Market and Fortress Europe 54:18

1M ago54:18

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Coming up this week: an audio essays special edition. Philip and Andrew, going head to head, a half hour each, on two big stories that have a more medium-term feel than the usual weekly news pegs. In the red corner, Mr Pilkington takes on the bear market. Is an icy wind coming for global stocks? How it could play out? From the bottoming out of NVID…

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Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, Your Local Epidemiologist: Death threats and thick skin are “part of this gig.” 29:08

1M ago29:08

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Dr. Katelyn Jetelina joins us at the fifth anniversary of the newsletter she has spearheaded,Your Local Epidemiologist (YLE). “An incredibly wild ride,” YLE reaches 370,000 subscribers, while social media accounts reach 700,000. To cross the political divide, we need to listen more, be more selective in the choice of words. The YLE operation now in…

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Premium Edition Teaser: Jeffrey Has Entered the Chat Man-Who-Kuo?, Fight for Your Reich to Party 10:40

1M ago10:40

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Was the editor of the Atlantic actually accidentally included in some rangy groupchat among bros that included a denunciation of European defence policy? Are you stupid? Have you recently had an aneurysm? Leaving aside this obvious straw dog, what is Washington actually signalling here? Meanwhile, the Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans are getting…

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Dr. Jeffrey Gold, President, University of Nebraska system: lately it’s been “a day-by-day, week-by-week course adjustment.” 27:37

1M ago27:37

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Dr. Jeffrey Gold, President of the University of Nebraska system, testified recently before the House Committee on Veteran Affairs Health Subcommittee on plans to replace a 1950 VA hospital with a hospital on the university grounds, with projected savings of half a billion dollars. Since the Trump administration began two months ago, it has been “a…

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Punching Right, School of Hardware Knocks, The Trump Put 49:19

1M ago49:19

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The British right is starting to fracture on the Ukraine issue. Where once they would reliably be called upon to paint themselves blue and yellow and raise a whip-round down the dog & duck for more MANPADS – now, as the endgame approaches, a group of the plugged-in are leaving the big tent. The civil war that follows may be its own Donbas. Meanwhil…

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Carmen Paun, Politico “It’s been astonishing to watch” USAID dismantled 39:19

2M ago39:19

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Politico’s global health correspondent Carmen Paun offers her insights into the White House decision on March 13 to withdraw the nomination of David Weldon to be the next Director of CDC. CDC, while vulnerable, has not seemed to be a priority target of the Trump White House, though it is “not totally out of the woods” and is proceeding cautiously i…

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Nasty NASDAQ, Of Euro-Bondage, Syria Seems to Be The Hardest Word 53:35

2M ago53:35

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Tesla is tanking. On the NASDAQ, the Magnificent 7 have become merely the 7. The talk is all of quarterly earnings in Musk towers. But is this just a smokescreen for the fact that DeepSeek has DeepFound Silicon Valley in DeepDooDoo? Meanwhile, in Europe, the dream of rearmament is still alive and well. Two weeks in, we’ll have a report, direct from…

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Measles Outbreak Implications 23:17

2M ago23:17

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In a special crossover episode with CSIS's The Truth of the Matter, Andrew Schwartz and Steve discuss the recent measles outbreak and risks associated with it. The United States is experiencing the worst measles outbreak in 30 years and the highest rate of contraction in the past six years after nearly eradicating the disease. Cases have surged in …

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Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron: “It has been a blizzard... It’s a staggering reality” 36:19

2M ago36:19

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Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Cameron, Professor, Brown University, and former senior official in global health security and biodefense at the White House and USAID, kindly shares her thoughts on the radical changes unfolding inside the U.S. government surrounding biothreats. Two internal factions within the Trump administration vie with one another. “It’s …

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Special Edition: Zelensky Takes A Direct Strike, The Steel Porcupine, RIP Collingwood 1:09:31

2M ago1:09:31

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As the world blows up, again, Andrew Collingwood has a dread cold. Gavin Haynes fills in as best he can, with a soft Newcastle brogue. We cover everything - from the rumble in the White House to the cultural amnesia coming up the pike. *** You can get paywalled episodes of Multipolarity on Patreon. https://www.Patreon.com/multipolarity It's cheap a…

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Premium Edition: Kaiser Friedrich IV and Trumpian Grand Strategy 14:57

2M ago14:57

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In Germany, there’s been an election. And The Reichstag is on fire - with a new cohort of AfD members . Will Keiser Merz see this as his opportunity to seize total control? After all, on Saturday, the incoming Chancellor decided that Germany can quote go it alone. Whatever that means. Is the real threat to European democracy about to come from besi…

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Dr. Vanessa Kerry: "Health is a Cornerstone of Global Security" 31:38

2M ago31:38

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Dr. Vanessa Kerry, founder of Seed Global Health, Associate Professor, Harvard School of Medicine, and since June 2023 the WHO Director-General’s Special Envoy on Climate Change and Health, joined The CommonHealth to unpack her recent article ‘Health is a Cornerstone of Global Security,’ published February 14 in Foreign Policy. In it, she argues th…

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CommonHealth Live! with Assistant Secretary Loyce Pace 48:04

2M ago48:04

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In the eighth episode of the CommonHealth Live! series, J. Stephen Morrison sits down with Loyce Pace, Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Assistant Secretary Pace discusses the newly released HHS Global Strategy and its implications for U.S. climate and health policy.…

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Special Edition: Munich! 55:15

2M ago55:15

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A piece of our time: a special edition covering the Vance speech, the Ukraine peace plan, and the EU response.By Multipolarity

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Save The Aid, The UK Art of The Deal, If I Speak I Am In Trouble 54:46

3M ago54:46

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They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. But what if you’re a germ? As the USA.I.D demolition continues, we’re beginning to see the outlines of what might be a network of real corruption - and it's not just the tinfoil hats saying it. How will the US public deal with having the wool pulled from their eyes? And will the Beltway liberals ever reco…

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Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley, President of Vassar College: “We’re ready.” 28:43

3M ago28:43

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Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley, President of Vassar College, shares her thoughts on the fusillade of Executive Orders signed by President Trump directed at educational institutions, including the apparent special animus toward elite private institutions. In this moment of heightened scrutiny across multiple fronts, the first step is to circle back t…

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Born in the USAID, Deep Deep Trouble, Customs of the Natives 1:03:29

3M ago1:03:29

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USAID is being dismantled brick by brick, the bricks are being pulped, the pulp is going in the blower, the dust is being scattered to the four winds. R.I.P, U.S.A.I.D. We’ll be sharing the surprising implications for independent anti-government bloggers in Moldova. Meanwhile, DeepSeek has beggared the US stock market and set NVIDIA on fire. Have t…

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Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times science and global health reporter: RFK Jr. “damned by his own history.” 33:31

3M ago33:31

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Apoorva Mandavilli, the award-winning New York Times science and global health reporter, is on the front lines of several fast-breaking stories. “We should be worried” about the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). It was “already on the chopping block” before the hugely disruptive Trump pause on national grants and contracts. Secre…

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Special Edition: Glenn Diesen on Trumpism, Ukraine, and the Hegemon's End 1:02:12

3M ago1:02:12

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No European who saw it would have avoided a pang of dread, when a meme appeared online this week, in the wake of the DeepSeek AI phenomenon. It pictured three dragons. One, ferocious, on its chest the logos of OpenAI, MetaAI, Gemini AI, and the US flag. The other, just as ferocious: featured the Chinese flag, and the logo of DeepSeek. The third, lo…

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Dr. Heidi Larson, LSHTM: "Public health cannot rest on its laurels." 30:04

3M ago30:04

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The renowned expert on vaccine confidence, Dr. Heidi Larson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explains why there has been a precipitous escalation in the past four years, especially among 18-24 year-olds, of vaccine skepticism and resistance. During Covid-19, “everybody got vaccinated,” everyone was exposed to the “digital swarm,” th…

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Pardon?, Little Red Note, Shall We Tell Peter Zeihan? 17:07

3M ago17:07

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This week is a paywalled premium episode. *** Joe Biden spent his final week minting pardons like Mugabe minted bank notes. In fact, his last act in office was to pardon his entire family. What does this unprecedented use of the seal of office portend for America’s future – and what has it got to do with the Russian word for roof? Meanwhile, it’s b…

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μουζίρης 3:37

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Director Mandy Cohen: The Future of the CDC 59:48

4M ago59:48

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Since the start of her tenure in July 2023, Dr. Mandy Cohen, Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has pursued several reforms intended to make CDC a stronger, nimbler agency better able to protect Americans from domestic and global public health threats and rebuild trust. She is joined in conversation with former S…

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Trump Regime Detonates UK?, Biden's AI Chips Ban, Trussification Part 4 52:30

4M ago52:30

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Britain is under attack by the world’s two worst entities - rape gangs and bond market speculators. As Starmer mounts a last stand, we’re reporting from the tattered remnants of old blighty. Is Musk just messing with Starmer’s tiny mind - or are the Americans serious about sinking HMS Britannia. Meanwhile, just as the world is thirsting for AI, the…

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