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 shadows of the covid-19 pandemic. Host Céline Gounder brings decades of experience working on HIV in Brazil and South Africa, Ebola during the outbreak in New Guinea, and covid-19 in New York City at the height of the pandemic. She travels to India and Bangladesh to bring never-before-heard stories from the front lines of the battle to wipe smallpox off the face of the Earth. “Epidemic” launched in early 2020 and quickly became a key source of reporting on the rapidly unfolding coronavirus pandemic. The show premiered at No. 1 in health and fitness and No. 1 in medicine on the Apple Podcast charts.
S2E8 / The Scars of Smallpox
S2E7 / What Good Is a Vaccine When There Is No Rice?
S2E6 / Bodies Remember What Was Done to Them
S2E5 / The Tata Way
Live Web Event: Thinking Big in Public Health, Inspired by the End of Smallpox
S2E4 / Speedboat Epidemiology
S2E3 / Zero Pox!
S2E2 / Do You Know Dutta?
S2E1 / The Goddess of Smallpox
Trailer: Epidemic Season 2 — Eradicating Smallpox
Trailer: American Diagnosis Season 4 — Rezilience
S1E80 / Vaccine Joy / Andy Slavitt & Celine Gounder
S1E79 / Women’s Health: Fertile Ground for COVID Myths / Andrea Edlow, Stephanie Gaw, Alice Lu-Culligan, Leena Mithal, Steve Stecklow
S1E78 / Caregiving as Infrastructure / Stephanie Coontz, Julie Morita, Erika Moritsugu, Sarah Murphy
S1E77 / Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide? / Albert Fox Cahn, Lawrence Gostin, Fatima Hassan, JP Pollak
S1E76 / Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity / John Nkengasong, James Krellenstein, Chelsea Clinton, Peter Hotez
S1E75 / Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents / Chris Morten, Prithi Krishtel, Rohit Malpani
S1E74 / Techno-Racism & COVID at Home & Abroad / Mutale Nkonde, Corin Faife, Heidi Larson, Imran Ahmed
S1E73 / Getting on the Right Side of Conservatives and Vaccines / Former Governor Chris Christie & Brian Castrucci
S1E72 / A World Wide Web of COVID Conspiracies / Graham Brookie, Devin Burghart, Bret Schafer, Judy Twigg
S1E71 / Is SARS-CoV-2 Here to Stay? / Jennie Lavine, Angela Rasmussen, Jeffrey Shaman
S1E70 / Country In-Roads: Building Vaccine Confidence in Rural America / Elizabeth Ellis, Dana Friend, Anna Loge, Chris Martin
S1E69 / With Us, For Us — Black Healthcare Workers Speak Out About Vaccine Safety / Jessica Anne Mitchell Aiwuyor, Rhea Boyd, Sandra Lindsay, Tierra Rich
S1E68 / Medical Racism Past and Present / Vanessa Northington Gamble, Harriet Washington, Rueben Warren
S1E67 / Past Is Prologue: Epidemics & Anti-Asian Xenophobia / Toby Chow, Merlin Chowkwanyun, David Randall
S1E66 / Brazil’s P.1 Variant — the Limits of Natural Herd Immunity / Felipe Naveca & Ester Sabino
S1E65 / Vaccines and Motherly Love / Heather Simpson, Elena Conis, Rebecca Onion, Jonathan Berman
S1E64 / The Origins of Vaccine Hesitancy / Jonathan Berman, Nadja Durbach and Michael Willrich
S1E63 / Chasing the Cure / David Fajgenbaum
S1E62 / South Africa’s B.1.351 Variant — Immunity-Evading / Salim Abdool Karim, Richard Lessells, Jinal Bhiman, Allison Greaney
S1E61 / The UK’s B.1.1.7 Variant — More Contagious and Virulent / Andrew Hayward, Trevor Bedford, Gard Nelson, Graham Medley
S1E60 / On the Hunt for the Next Pandemic Virus / Tony Goldberg, Adam Bailey, Jennifer Gardy, Sagan Friant
S1E59 / A Perfect Storm for Depression – Deaths of Despair Pt II / Anne Case & Roy Perlis
S1E58 / An Overdose Epidemic – Deaths of Despair Pt I / Sandra Lindie, Will Cooke, Jennifer Fecu
S1E57 / Disrupting Restaurants Part II / Amanda Cohen, Saru Jayarmanan, Pete Ternes
S1E56 / Flattening the Infodemic Curve / Claire Wardle, John Cook, Renee DiResta
S1E55 / Mask Up / Linsey Marr, Kim Prather, Delphine Wallis
S1E54 / A Smarter Way to Quarantine / Roxanne Khamsi & Jeffrey Townsend
S1E53 / The Vaccines are Coming / Kizzmekia Corbett, Sree Chaguturu, Julie Rosenberg
S1E52 / Love and Care in a Pandemic / Jon Gunnell & Robert Cialdini
S1E51 / Disrupting Restaurants / David Henkes, Kirk Vartan, Tunde Wey
S1E50 / The Post-Pandemic College Experience / Scott Galloway & Michael D. Smith
S1E49 / Lessons from the Zombie Apocalypse / Coltan Scrivner, David Schnieder, Robert Wonser
S1E48 / A False Promise: Herd Immunity and Herd Mentality / Mark Pagel & Tom Frieden
S1E47 / A Very Important Patient / Art Caplan, George Annas, Joel Goldstein
S1E46 / Vote Like Your Health Depends on It / Alister Martin, Betsy Hoover, Ralph Noyes
S1E45 / In for the Long-haul / Diana Berrent, Eli Musser, Marcus Tomoff, Marjorie Roberts
S1E44 / Science & Public Health Under Attack / Gary Kasparov, Lori Freeman, Theresa Anselmo
S1E43 / What Sports Can Teach Us About Mass Testing / Michael Mina, Rohan Nadkarni, Stephanie Apstein
S1E42 / One on One with Tony Fauci
S1E41 / Back to Campus / Allison Slater-Tate, Amy Gorin, Eleanor Daugherty, Rochelle Walensky
S1E40 / Back to School / Arne Duncan, Allison Slater Tate, Stephanie Gounder
S1E39 / Invisible Women / Ai-jen Poo, Susie Rivera, Glewna Joseph
S1E38 / Shoe-Leather Epidemiology / Jay Varma, Kimberly Joceyln, Maryama Diaw
S1E37 / Seeking Sanctuary / Julie Levey, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, Pastor Jamal Bryant
S1E36 / Alone Together / Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Lucy Flamm, Jeff Howe, Jackie Jones
S1E35 / What’s Essential Health Care in a Pandemic? / Cecile Richards & Kersha Diebel
S1E34 / Hands-On / Nicola Corl, Shannon Adams, Latia Curtis
S1E33 / The Privilege of Immunity / Kathryn Olivarius, Juanita Mora, Esha Bhandari
S1E32 / Epidemics Change History / Josh Loomis & Frank Snowden
S1E31 / A Patchwork Pandemic / Ed Yong & Howard Koh
S1E30 / A Second Wave? / Howard Markel
S1E29 / A Magic Bullet? Monoclonal Antibodies / James Crowe
S1E28 / The Political Psychology of Pandemics / Michele Gelfand & Howard Lavine
S1E27 / Convalescent Plasma / Arturo Casadevall & Michael Busch
S1E26 / Indigenous Peoples / Rebecca Nagle, Melissa Begay, Jamescita Peshlakai
S1E25 / A COVID Vaccine / Seth Berkeley & Peter Hotez
S1E24 / Is the CDC MIA? / Jim Curran & Mark Rosenberg
S1E23 / Our Immune System versus the Virus / Stanley Perlman & Jon Yewdell
S1E22 / A False Choice: The Economy versus Public Health / Rashad Robinson, Alicia Garza, Marshall Ganz
S1E21 / Are Antibodies the Holy Grail? / Kaitlyn Sadtler & Matt Memoli
S1E20 / Not Business as Usual / Geoff Baird & Céline Gounder
S1E19 / A Return to Sports, a Return to “Normal” Life? / Peter King, Rohan Nadkarni, Grant Wahl
S1E18 / Without Shelter in a Storm / Rosanne Haggerty, Jake Maguire, Cindy Funkhouser
S1E17 / Getting Prepared / John Lynch, Syra Madad, Reid Wilson
S1E16 / Good and Bad Bosses / Adam Grant, William Kassler, Katie McGrath
S1E15 / Health Coverage in a Pandemic / Donald Berwick & Karen Pollitz
BONUS / Speaking Truth to COVID / Stacey Abrams
S1E14 / Disability Shouldn’t Be A Liability / Maggie Hassan & Rebecca Cokley
S1E13 / A Black Plague / Helene Gayle & Aletha Maybank
S1E12 / Covid and Punishment / Homer Venters, Norman Ornstein, Steven Leifman
S1E11 / Surviving COVID / David Lat
S1E10 / Dr Tony Fauci: From One Pandemic to Another / Mark Harrington & Peter Staley
S1E9 / Did Anybody See This Coming? / Juliette Kayyem
S1E8 / Unequal: Race, Status, and COVID-19 / Greg Asbed & Jeneen Interlandi
S1E7 / The Destiny of Nations Depends on How They Feed Themselves / José Andres
S1E6 / We All Count: Civil Rights & Coronavirus / Vanita Gupta & Michael Macagnone
S1E5 / On the Frontlines and in People’s Minds / Adam Grant
BONUS / A False Dichotomy: Airborne versus Droplet / Roxanne Khamsi and Lydia Bourouiba
BONUS / Running Out of Time / Michael Donnelly
S1E4 / Our Health System’s in Trouble / Andy Salvitt & Dan Diamond
S1E3 / Flatten the Curve / Craig Spencer & Helen Branswell
S1E2 / The Test Kit Debacle / Tom Frieden
S1E1 / Do We Need a Coronavirus Czar? / Céline Gounder, Ron Klain